In Search of the Supernatural
In Search of the Supernatural (
ghosts, and other supernatural phenomena. Although the authorship of the book is not made explicit in the text, it is believed to have been written and compiled by Gan Bao, a historian at the court of Emperor Yuan of the Jin dynasty
around AD 350. It was reissued in numerous editions, including in 1593. The book usually consists of 464 stories.
The English translation by Kenneth J. DeWoskin and J. I. Crump, Jr. was published in 1996. The book is also known as In Search of the Sacred and Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals.
Stories
Notable stories include:
- Gan Jiang Mo Xie〈干將莫邪〉
- Wu Wang Xiao Nü〈吳王小女〉
- Li Ji Zhan She〈李寄斬蛇〉a legend about serpent-slaying:
- Han Bing Fufu〈韓憑夫婦〉
The collection also contains a variant of the story of a Swan Maiden (or Heavenly/Celestial Bride) who marries a mortal man.[6]
Legacy
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
.
References
- ISBN 0-8047-2506-3
- JSTOR 40312235.
- ISBN 978-14384-6-7078
- ISBN 978-0-8248-3215-5
- OCLC 44808453.
- ISBN 978-962-996-305-7
- Gan Bao. In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record, translated into English by Kenneth J. DeWoskin and James Irving Crump. Stanford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8047-2506-3
Further reading
- Xie, Wenjuan (2014). "Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou Shen Ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales". Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag. University Press of Colorado. pp. 244–260. JSTOR j.ctt83jj2k.18.
External links
- 搜神記 (Sou Shen Ji) at Project Gutenberg (in Chinese)
- Bodde, Derk (1942). "Again Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Further Remarks on Kan Pao and His Sou-shên chi". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 62 (4): 305–308. JSTOR 594034.
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