4th-century CE Chinese compilation of legends and stories
Cover of a 1937 printed edition ofIn Search of the Supernatural (volume one)Pages from a Ming dynasty Wanli period printed edition ofIn Search of the Supernatural
The English translation by Kenneth J. DeWoskin and J. I. Crump, Jr. was published in 1996. The book is also known asIn Search of the Sacred andAnecdotes about Spirits and Immortals.
^Gan Bao.In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record, translated into English by Kenneth J. DeWoskin and James Irving Crump. Stanford University Press, 1996. pp. 230-231.ISBN0-8047-2506-3
^Journey of a Goddess: Chen Jinggu Subdues the Snake Demon. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Fan Pen Li Chen. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. 2017. p. 31.ISBN978-14384-6-7078
^Idema, Wilt L.Personal Salvation and Filial Piety: Two Precious Scroll Narratives of Guanyin and Her Acolytes. University of Hawai'i Press. 2008. p. 205.ISBN978-0-8248-3215-5
^Hsieh, Daniel.Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction. The Chinese University Press. 2008. pp. 123-136.ISBN978-962-996-305-7
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Xie, Wenjuan (2014). "Encountering Ghost Princesses in Sou Shen Ji: Rereading Classical Chinese Ghost Wife Zhiguai Tales".Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag. University Press of Colorado. pp. 244–260.ISBN978-0-87421-897-8.JSTORj.ctt83jj2k.18.
Bodde, Derk (1942). "Again Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Further Remarks on Kan Pao and His Sou-shên chi".Journal of the American Oriental Society.62 (4):305–308.doi:10.2307/594034.JSTOR594034.
