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Jun Yue
1766–1814
A Qing-era writer of strange tales, remembered for blending ghost stories, folklore, and sharp observations about human feeling. His best-known work, Ershi lu (Hearsay Accounts), moves easily between the uncanny and the everyday.
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耳食錄
by Jun Yue
About the author
Yue Jun (also written Jun Yue, 1766–1814) was a Chinese writer and poet of the Qing dynasty. Modern library and catalog records consistently identify him with those dates, and recent scholarship describes him as the author of Ershilu (耳食錄, often translated as Hearsay Accounts), a collection of literary Chinese tales about the strange and supernatural.
Ershilu was published in the 1790s and is the work most closely associated with him today. Scholars describe it as a zhiguai collection: short prose narratives of unusual events, spirits, fears, desires, and moral tensions. That mix of eerie storytelling and close attention to emotion is part of what makes his writing still interesting to modern readers.
Reliable biographical detail beyond his dates and authorship is hard to confirm from the sources found here, so it is safer to let the work speak first. For readers who enjoy classic Chinese fiction with a ghostly edge, Yue Jun stands out as a concise, imaginative voice from the late imperial period.