Big collection of a bunch of ghost stories. 90% of them involve some dude dating a beautiful ghost woman or animal that can shapeshift as a woman.
Organized into 12 chapeters as seen on the Chinese wiki: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/聊齋志異#章節
Figure 1.
1935 edition of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
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Pu Songling by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Sometimes you just know that your existence will be remembered for a singular reason. Better than not being remembered at all perhaps.
A Chinese Ghost Story by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
OK, the Good film tag might imply that you are a Sinophile.
The adaptation is very loose.
Figure 1.
Poster of A Chinese Ghost Story
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Appears to be a small section from the Diamond Sutra. TODO find or create a video of it, it is just too awesome.
Outstanding scenery/filming locations and clothing! What are those places! Wikipedia says it was shot party in Shanxi.
Appears to have widely modified the story unfortunately however.
They really love their pyrotechnics!
The main four instruments are undoubtedly:but there is also amazing content on others which must not be missed, including:
Video 1.
25 musical instruments OF China by Learning Music Hub
. Source. Great video, covers all the most important ones briefly with examples of varying relevance.
Video 2.
A beginner’s guide to Chinese musical instruments by SCMP
. Source. 2024. Terrible editing, way to hard to see instrument name.
Video 3.
Chinese vs Western musical instrument battle scene from Our Shining Days
. Source. A bit cheap, but it has some value.
Verbal fallacies are logical fallacies that occur due to the way language is used. These fallacies often arise from unclear or misleading language, ambiguous wording, or faulty reasoning that relies on the semantics of words rather than the substance of the argument. They can cloud reasoning and lead to misunderstandings or misinterpretations of the argument being presented.
Erhu by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Figure 1.
A blind erhu street performer playing in Jingzhou, Hubei (2006)
Source. Playing the erhu is a traditional occupation for blind people in China, a notable example being Abing.
Video 1.
Suwu herding sheep played by Song Fei (2017)
Source.
Video 2.
The 12 Most Famous Erhu Melodies in China (2021)
Source. TODO transcribe list.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
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    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
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    Figure 2.
    You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either https://OurBigBook.com or as a static website
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    Figure 3.
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    Figure 4.
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    Figure 5.
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    Video 3.
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    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
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