蒲松龄 / Pu Songling

蒲松龄 / Pu Songling enters this wiki branch as the author of [[LiaozhaiZhiyi|《聊斋志异》]], the literary source [[JonathanSpence|史景迁]] uses in [[TheDeathOfWomanWang|《王氏之死》]]. In 148. 王氏之死：断井颓垣上的历史妆镜, [[MihuanChishu|蜜獾吃书]] treats him as a writer whose ghost stories preserve local fears, moral fantasies, hunger, sexual danger, female competence, and bureaucratic absurdity around the world of [[Tancheng|郯城]].

The episode’s methodological point is careful: Pu’s fiction is not a replacement for legal proof. It is useful because Fiction As Historical Evidence can reveal social imagination that official documents flatten. Stories such as 《促织》, 小二, 细柳, and 云翠仙 let the episode compare fantasy agency with the narrower life space available to [[WangShiTancheng|王氏]].

Connections

• [[LiaozhaiZhiyi|《聊斋志异》]] - Pu’s story collection.
• [[TheDeathOfWomanWang|《王氏之死》]] and [[JonathanSpence|史景迁]] - book and historian using Pu’s fiction as source material.
• Fiction As Historical Evidence, Myth As Historical Evidence, and Evidence-Bound Folklore Inquiry - method frames for reading stories as social evidence.
• Female Self-Possession and 清代性别法律秩序 / Qing Gender Legal Order - gendered contrast created by the stories.