Can love between the living and the dead endure? Do ghosts age? Who approves reincarnation—and might the King of Hell ever retire? Chinese tales of the strange imagine an afterlife with its own rules, institutions, emotions, and moral order.
Drawing on fiction from the Wei-Jin era through the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mr. Ghost introduces spirits who are rarely mere monsters. They reason, follow principles, remember love, and seek justice. To speak of ghosts is ultimately to speak of how the living understood their own lives.
