9/24/2023 0 Comments Strange storyThe final manuscript was "carefully preserved" by the Pu family after his death, with many different individuals, including the local magistrate, requesting to make copies of it. Shandong financial commissioner Yu Chenglong reportedly offered Pu a thousand taels circa 1693 in exchange for his Liaozhai manuscript, but Pu declined his offer. The compilation was first circulated in scribal copies but it was not published until after the author's death in 1715. However, according to Chinese scholar Zhang Peiheng ( 章培恒), the original Liaozhai comprised eight volumes, the earliest and latest of which were completed around 16 to 1714 respectively. Pu is popularly believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, when he wrote the preface to the anthology, though he could have added entries as late as 1707.
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