LNELecture Notes in Education, Arts, Management and Social Science3083-10912705-053XBio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/LNE.v4i6.15539ArticleStrange Tales from a Chinese Studio: How a “Book of Lonely Indignation” Became a Timeless Classichttps://artdesignp.com/journal/LNE/4/6/10.26689/LNE.v4i6.15539SunZiliang2026462026-06-26 How did a work propelled by personal frustration traverse three hundred years, rising from the lonely lamp and worn volumes of a rustic private school to become a canonical classic in the pantheon of world literature? This paper seeks to examine the distinctive trajectory by which Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio was transformed from an expression of personal solitary indignation into a literary classic, focusing on three dimensions: the generative mechanism of “Lonely Indignation,” the narrative transformation of the text, and the historical logic of its canonization.Pu Songling,Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio,Popular dissemination,Marvelous-tale narrative

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