 Pu Songling was a famous writer of Liaozhai Zhiyi 《聊齋志異》during the Qing dynasty.He opened a tea house and invited his guests to tell stories, and then he would compile the tales into collections such as Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.In the early 20th century Shanghai became the birthplace and entertainment hub of the three new major art forms, Chinese cinema, Chinese animation and Chinese popular music.