The fantastic literature of Asia is also taken into account in the Library of Babel: Jorge Luis Borges presents P'u Sung-Ling, a renowned Chinese author whose main work holds the same significance in China as One Thousand and One Nights. His often only a few pages long stories are written in a sober and clear style. They deal with death, transience, and the underworld. In addition, there are two short stories by Tsao-Hsueh-Chin. Their content, in contrast to Sung-Ling's, is light and playful: here, a false world of dreams and reflections is the theme.