Pu Songling

Pu Songling was a Chinese author who wrote during the Qing Dynasty.

Biography

Pu was from a poor landlord-merchant family from . Possibly he was of Mongol ancestry. At the age of nineteen, he received the xiucai degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the gongsheng degree.



He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in ''Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio''. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel ''Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan'' to him.