Exhibition explores Pu Songling and his "Strange Tales from Liaozhai”

Photo taken on July 21, 2026 shows people visiting the "Imagination Without Borders: The Chinese Writer Pu Songling and His Strange Tales from Liaozhai” exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing, China's capital city. Featuring more than 240 objects and sets, the exhibition explores the life and work of Pu Songling (1640-1715), author of the renowned collection Strange Tales from Liaozhai, as well as its later artistic adaptations and scholarly research. Through manuscripts, portraits, illustrations and an immersive bamboo-grove setting, the exhibition brings visitors into a literary world where fantasy and reality intertwine, highlighting the work's enduring artistic imagination, humanistic insight and profound concern for society. (Wang Xinyuan/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on July 21, 2026 shows people visiting the "Imagination Without Borders: The Chinese Writer Pu Songling and His Strange Tales from Liaozhai” exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing, China's capital city. Featuring more than 240 objects and sets, the exhibition explores the life and work of Pu Songling (1640-1715), author of the renowned collection Strange Tales from Liaozhai, as well as its later artistic adaptations and scholarly research. Through manuscripts, portraits, illustrations and an immersive bamboo-grove setting, the exhibition brings visitors into a literary world where fantasy and reality intertwine, highlighting the work's enduring artistic imagination, humanistic insight and profound concern for society. (Wang Xinyuan/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on July 21, 2026 shows people visiting the "Imagination Without Borders: The Chinese Writer Pu Songling and His Strange Tales from Liaozhai” exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing, China's capital city. Featuring more than 240 objects and sets, the exhibition explores the life and work of Pu Songling (1640-1715), author of the renowned collection Strange Tales from Liaozhai, as well as its later artistic adaptations and scholarly research. Through manuscripts, portraits, illustrations and an immersive bamboo-grove setting, the exhibition brings visitors into a literary world where fantasy and reality intertwine, highlighting the work's enduring artistic imagination, humanistic insight and profound concern for society. (Wang Xinyuan/Guangming Picture)

Photo taken on July 21, 2026 shows people visiting the "Imagination Without Borders: The Chinese Writer Pu Songling and His Strange Tales from Liaozhai” exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing, China's capital city. Featuring more than 240 objects and sets, the exhibition explores the life and work of Pu Songling (1640-1715), author of the renowned collection Strange Tales from Liaozhai, as well as its later artistic adaptations and scholarly research. Through manuscripts, portraits, illustrations and an immersive bamboo-grove setting, the exhibition brings visitors into a literary world where fantasy and reality intertwine, highlighting the work's enduring artistic imagination, humanistic insight and profound concern for society. (Wang Xinyuan/Guangming Picture)