Sid Sondergard


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Sid Sondergard is the Piskor Professor of English and also of Asian Studies at SLU where he has taught for 27 years. Having just completed the first English translation of Pu Songling’s (1640-1715) zhiguai collection, Strange Tales from Liaozhai, the presenter is turning now to translation of the autobiography and daybook of Zhang Jinxing, a cultural hero who has been tracking the yeren (“wild men”), China’s own bigfoot creatures, in the mountains and high peaks of Hubei province. The presenter will talk about both of these projects and how they’ve influenced his thinking about – and appreciation for – paranormal phenomena.

Sid was in China in January 2012, not only returning to the archeological sites he had been to before, but also visiting a number of new sites in Guizhou province, including the site of a reported major UFO event in 1994


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