Some Chinese Ghosts

by Lafcadio Hearn

Overview

Contents:
The Soul of the Great Bell;
The Story of Ming-Y;
The Legend of Tchi-Niu;
The Return of Yen-Tchin-King;
The Tradition of the Tea Plant;
The Tale of the Porcelain God.

I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for weird beauty; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott's "Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad": "The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon." -- Lafcadio Hearn

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161352878
Publisher:	UnderPress Books
Publication date:	04/22/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	131 KB

About the Author

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (in Greek: ?at?????? ?e???d??? ?e??, aka Koizumi Yakumo, in Japanese: ????) was born in the island of Lefkas (aka Lefkada), Greece. He was a son of an army doctor Charles Hearn from Ireland and a Greek woman Rosa Cassimati (in Greek: ???a ??t????? ?as?µ?t?). After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. But as soon as he arrived in Yokohama, he quit the job because of a dissatisfaction with the contract. After that, he moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané Prefectural Middle School. In Matsué, he got acquainted with his lifelong friend Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai. In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and had taught at the Fifth High School for 3 years. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the School of that time, is known as the man who spread judo to the world.