The Popular Education Function of the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio that Serializedin the Newspaper
Since its publication,Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio was once regarded as"the help of literary research"by scholars in the"elite cultural circle,"while in Beijing at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China,its audience expanded to the"civilian cultural circle"through the new media newspapers.At that time,intellectuals made various adaptations to Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in terms of form and content,striving to make it a qualified and even excellent blueprint for popular education,in order to realize"the psychological healing function of relieving depression and boredom,""the function of dispelling superstition and enlightening the people,""the function of concealing evil and promoting good,and standardizing people's morality,"and"function of satirizing current evils and empathizing the suffering of the prople"of this series of novels.
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