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2. New Tasks in the Study of Classical Chinese Literature in the Age of Globalization and Informatization Issues of Far Eastern Literatures: Materials of the 11th International Scientific Cconference. June 27–29, 2024 34 of overviews and monographs on Pu Songling's poetry, there are still limited remnants in terms of the quantity, subject matter, and content of his poems that have been passed down to posterity.The author discovers that in addition to singing and harmony poems, discipline and disaster poems, memory poems, local poetry, love poems, and ancient poems, Pu Songling also possesses a distinct style of poetry known as family letter poems. This particular form of poetic creation has endured for an extensive period of time, boasts a considerable quantity, showcases a prominent personality, and exhibits content closely intertwined with the writer's real-life experiences.The correspondence can be categorized into three sections: letters addressed to his wife, Liu; letters written for his son; and a broader theme of concern for the family's welfare, emphasis on the education of offspring, and personal reflections.These poems reflect not only Pu Songling's life experience and family condition, but also his creation background of “Taking wintersweet as his wife and crane as his son, and turning his home into a postal booth for a long time”.Based on Pu Songling’s life experiences, this paper analyzes the aforementioned poems and interprets the poet's genuine sufferings, joys, thoughts, emotions, and family relations during his absence from domestic life. Through the portrayal of an “absent” father figure, a more comprehensive understanding of Pu Songling can be achieved, facilitating further creative research and textual inter- pretation of his masterpiece Liaozhai from a fresh perspective. Keywords: Pu Songling, sent home poems, family, absence; Liaozhai. Terekhov Anthony (IOM RAS), aterekhoff@gmail.com Biography of Li He in the Manuscript “Biographies of Immortals” (“Lexianzhuan”) from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS In the collection of the IOM RAS there is a manuscript “Biographies of Immortals” (“Lexianzhuan”), created in the second half of the 19th century. It contains more than two hundred biographies of legendary and historical characters. Among the latter there are not only Taoist adepts, but also other people — artists, poets, healers, etc. One of these characters is Li He, the famous poet of the second half of the Tang era. Fantastic elements appear already in the “Brief Biography of Li He” (“Li He xiaozhuan”), compiled by another famous poet, Li Shangyin. There it is said, among other things, that before his death, Li He saw a messenger in dark red robes who arrived to take him to heaven, where the poet was supposed to write about the Tower of White Jade recently built by the Heavenly Emperor. Later, this plot migrated to the collection of biographies of immortals entitled “Comprehensive Mirror of Immortals Who Embodied the Way Through The Ages” (“Lishi zhenxian tidao tongjian”), compiled by Zhao Daoyi in the 13th century. The biography of Li He in “Lexianzhuan” from the collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts is divided into three parts: the first one tells the story (appearing already in a 13th-century collection) about Li He, then just a child, being visited by famous writers Han Yu and Huangfu Zhi, the second closely follows the story of the messenger in dark red robes from the “Brief Biography”, and the third, which has no analogues in other texts, tells about Li He’s journey to heaven, where he sees various wonderful buildings and, in particular, the very Tower of White Jade, which he is destined to glorify. Thus, the biography of Li He in “Biographies of Immortals” from the collection of the IOM RAS is not just a compilation of information from earlier sources — it also includes original material not known from other texts, which allows the biography to end not with the death of the main character, but with his posthumous fate as divine being. Keywords: Li He, immortals, “Biographies of Immortals”, “Lexianzhuan”, manuscript.