Glossary

caizi jiaren 才子佳人 – the genius and the beauty; this is an idiom that refers to a genre of Chinese romances that feature these characters

gui 鬼 – ghost

huli jing 狐狸精 – fox sprit

jiangshi 殭屍 – stiff corpse (known as a Chinese vampire)

li 里 – traditional unit of length equivalent to 0.311 miles

Liaozhai zhiyi 聊齋誌異 – Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (a collection of strange tales and anomalies by Pu Songling)

long 龍 – dragon

Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715) – Chinese fiction author, known for his work, Liaozhai zhiyi

xiaoshuo 小說 – novel

zhiguai 志怪 – record of the strange