#111 - Special: Strange Tales

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Today, we veer off our main narrative and into several seasonal tales which celebrate the spooky season in Chinese fashion. We feature a ghostly gathering, a bewitched battle, injurious jests, and lethal looks. Author: Pu Songling [1640-1715 CE]Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio Featuring: The Golden Goblets (begins: 2:15) The Necromancer (begins: 13:30) The Killing Joke (begins: 21:15) The Painted Skin (begins: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.3	teasencies apply 18 plus. Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:37.0	Episode 111. Strange Tales.
0:48.0	The full moon rises in the late October sky, and the wolves howl in the distance.
0:54.2	It's the time of year when witches, ghosts, demons, and the undead roam among us. That's right, it's Halloween.
0:57.3	Although China does not officially recognize the thoroughly Western holiday, it nevertheless is today one of the most popular
1:04.3	among the nation's urban youth. And who can blame them?
1:07.5	F costumes, decorations, candy, spooky stories? What's not to like?
1:13.8	And make no mistake.
1:16.1	China has more than its fair share of strange and scary tales of the unnatural.
1:21.7	I recently put out a collaboration with my peers at the Agora Podcast Network in which I told perhaps the most famous of Chinese horror stories called the painted skin.
1:31.0	I'll also be including it as the finale in this episode today.
1:35.2	But in the course of my research I found far more than a single tale to tantalize and
1:40.0	terrified. In particular, I am wholly indebted to the man who compiled all the stories you're about to hear today.
1:47.0	Pu Songling from whose 1740 book, Ziguai Tuan Chi, or Strange Tales from a Chinese studio. I took what you're about to hear.
1:56.7	He has hundreds of supernatural stories, far too many to read all here today, And so in the Halloween's to come. I hope to put out additional
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