The Shadow Book of Ji Yun

The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, H

Yn Ji, John Yu Branscum, Yun Ji

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Empress Wu Books
05 June 2021

Horror & ghost stories; Oriental religions; Occult studies; Mysticism, magic & ritual; Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's&YA)

"Imagine if a national political figure like Benjamin Franklin was also a paranormal investigator, one who wrote up his investigations with a storytelling flair that reads like a combination of M.R. James, Lafcadio Hearn, and Zhuangzi-with a dash of the bureaucratic absurdism of Kafka sprinkled in, alongside a healthy dose of H.P. Lovecraft's weird antiquarianism. In China, at roughly the same time that Franklin was filling the sky with electrified kites, there was such a figure. He was Special Advisor to the emperor of China, Imperial Librarian, and one of the most celebrated scholars and poets of his time. His name was Ji Yun (纪昀).

Beginning in 1789, Ji Yun published five volumes of weird tales and ghost stories that combined supernatural autobiographical accounts with early speculative fictions. Combining insights into Chinese magic and metaphysics with tales of cannibal villages, sentient fogs, alien encounters, and fox spirits; as well as accounts of soul swapping, haunted cities, and the ""jiangshi"" (the Chinese vampire), there is no literary work quite like that of Ji Yun."

By: Yun Ji
Translated by: Yn Ji, John Yu Branscum
Imprint: Empress Wu Books
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9781953124012
ISBN 10: 1953124011
Pages: 338
Publication Date: 05 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, H

Written more than two centuries ago, Ji Yun's 'true weird stories' prove that humanity's greatest fears are timeless. Rue Morgue A new and wholly fresh mother lode of 'true weird tales, ' ... the only real comparisons to Shadow Book's treasure trove of bizarre stories, full of humour, horror, suspense, magic and mystery, are Japan's Kwaidan, the Thousand and One Nights, and most certainly Pu Sung-ling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Fortean Times