remarkable book consists of stories where we meet foxes, foxes, monsters, ghosts, arch-spectra in China before 1911. I read several times, the tales and found charming; wonderful to be able to escape with the author. A new fascinates me for years: the fresco. "Illusions born of the beholder"; but what a joy to walk around! An important theme is that of absence of death; death, the "dead" simply changes universe and a Chinese rediscovers a mirrored china where is the competition, corruption, etc ... So he continuum there ... The pain from tortures in hell are fictitious: Buddhism Taoism mixture clears the Christian notions of sin and so we find a civilization where this concept is unknown.
