Happy Birthday!

[Jia Nanfeng]

LiuBeiWasGreat, I hope your day was great!

[Dong Zhou]

Happy Birthday LiuBeiWasGreat and hope you have something lovely planned to celebrate you.

[Sun Fin]

Happy Birthday, plunged! Have a quality day!

[Dong Zhou]

Hope you have a great Birthday weekend ahead of plunged

[Dong Zhou]

Happy Birthday Jia Nanfeng, hope you have a wonderful time however you choose to celebrate your big day

[Jia Nanfeng]

Thank you. I feel like it was just recently that y’all were wishing me a happy birthday and here we are again. Time goes too fast!

I’m leveling up to Level 31!

[Sun Fin]

Yeah I can’t believe a year has passed! Happy birthday Jia! Did you get any exciting new books this year?

[Jia Nanfeng]

My mom gifted me Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic by Karl Kao. In hardcover, which made me happy — so few of my Chinese studies books are hardcover.

I started reading it last night. Much of the anecdotes so far are repeats from my other books, which was to be expected, but his translation style adds some flair here and there. So far my biggest complaint is the lack of an index — typically books like these have indexes so you can search by name at the very least. No index makes this less useful for research; I’ll be sticky noting any page with 3K or Jin stories though.

[Sun Fin]

Glad you got something you wanted! If I was only to buy one book on Chinese folklore would this be the one you’d recommend or do you prefer one of your previous purchases?

[Jia Nanfeng]

Glad you got something you wanted! If I was only to buy one book on Chinese folklore would this be the one you’d recommend or do you prefer one of your previous purchases?

I wouldn't recommend this book above the others, no.

If I could only recommend one book about Chinese folklore, it'd be A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China by Robert Campany. Really you couldn't go wrong with any Campany book (he's awesome) but that's the book I typically recommend for people new to the genre.