Zibuyu, a collection of supernatural stories, is a work with different reading levels, which allows to uncover several deep trends, taboos and fantasies of late imperial intellectual circles. With translation and commentary.
Paolo Santangelo, is Professor of the History of East Asia at Sapienza University, Roma, and has published on social, intellectual and anthropological history of Late Imperial China. Yan Beiwen, born in 1971, holds an M.A. Degree in Comparative Literature from Peking University (2004). She is an editor of the Foreign Literature Review, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
