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The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge

The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge

Yu, Yi Izzy
Branscum, John Yu
Ji, Yun

Paperback

Literary CriticismParanormalMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 1953124011
ISBN13: 9781953124012
Publisher: Empress Wu Books
Published: Jun 5 2021
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

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).

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