The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi ('The Great Book of Marvels') preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This st

Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora

In the first century of the Common Era, two new belief systems entered long-established cultures with radically different outlooks and values: missionaries star

"A very important study of one of the most important institutions in Chinese history, one without which the China we have today would certainly be a vastly diff

In traditional China, upper-class literati were inevitably strongly influenced by Confucian doctrine and rarely touched upon such topics as love and women in th