Charles F. Emmons

This book is not your average, superficial, catalog of ghost stories. Indeed, this book is a dense (and very academic) read about how Chinese society views the supernatural. Strong writing and research!

This is incredibly academic and very dense and is really not for the lay people. I am an academic, but I somehow thought it was going to be a little more easy to understand, it was not. Some interesting work for the cultural anthropologists out there for sure though.

I was not very familiar with Chinese supernatural beliefs prior to this. I found it an enjoyable read.

Chinese ghosts revisited isn't so much about the ghosts themselves as it is mainly about proving and researching into proving that they exist. It is also about the cultural surroundings about the spirits and the stories based around the ghosts. I found it very fascinating and loved the idea.