Imperial Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness Imperial Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness The Imperial Hotel (formerly "Hotel Imperial") located on Cornwallis Street in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England is a 4-star Grade II listed hotel built in 1875. The iconic five storey building was designed by architect Thomas Bennet and, like many Barrow buildings, constructed of red brick and sandstone. Other notable features of the building are the balcony located directly above the main entrance and the two decorative lamps standing in front of the hotel, which are also Grade II listed. The hotel underwent a £1 million renovation in 2012 by businessman Stuart Bowes, owner of the nearby Majestic Hotel.
The Imperial Physician "The Imperial Physician" as an example of how Pu shows that "the dialectics of unexpected but reasonable change of things is not only used in events concerning supernatural power, but also human life". "(T)hat things go from the expected to the contrary direction", as seen in how the imperial physician's advice is dismissed given the rarity of bear and tiger meat, yet Sun Pingshi meets such an "unexpected but fatal" death nonetheless. The Imperial Physician "The Imperial Physician" () is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" in 1740, and