Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - 1766 short story collection by Pu Songling. This book is the 1444^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” in English Wikipedia has 70.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 14 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. However, the most popular language version of this article is Chinese.

Since the creation of article “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio”, its content was written by 127 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 536 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio is on the 1444^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 380 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1543 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #23452 in January 2023
• Global: #33557 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #149272 in October 2008
• Global: #77009 in May 2015

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio		70.4302
2	Vietnamese (vi) Liêu trai chí dị		62.467
3	Portuguese (pt) Contos Estranhos do Estúdio de Liao		59.0575
4	Chinese (zh) 聊齋志異		46.8245
5	Indonesian (id) Kisah Aneh Liaozhai		37.0375
6	Japanese (ja) 聊斎志異		30.3869
7	French (fr) Liaozhai zhiyi		17.2597
8	German (de) Liaozhai Zhiyi		16.98
9	Russian (ru) Ляо-чжай-чжи-и		13.042
10	Italian (it) Racconti straordinari dello studio Liao		11.5427

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 聊齋志異		1 676 573
2	English (en) Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio		719 049
3	Vietnamese (vi) Liêu trai chí dị		599 327
4	Japanese (ja) 聊斎志異		388 981
5	Thai (th) โปเยโปโลเย		116 130
6	Russian (ru) Ляо-чжай-чжи-и		51 387
7	French (fr) Liaozhai zhiyi		31 428
8	Korean (ko) 요재지이		28 074
9	German (de) Liaozhai Zhiyi		27 723
10	Indonesian (id) Kisah Aneh Liaozhai		25 608

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Chinese (zh) 聊齋志異		6 550
2	English (en) Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio		3 860
3	Japanese (ja) 聊斎志異		2 513
4	Vietnamese (vi) Liêu trai chí dị		2 333
5	Russian (ru) Ляо-чжай-чжи-и		358
6	Thai (th) โปเยโปโลเย		312
7	French (fr) Liaozhai zhiyi		173
8	Korean (ko) 요재지이		148
9	German (de) Liaozhai Zhiyi		137
10	Italian (it) Racconti straordinari dello studio Liao		115

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio		127
2	Chinese (zh) 聊齋志異		113
3	Vietnamese (vi) Liêu trai chí dị		59
4	Japanese (ja) 聊斎志異		49
5	French (fr) Liaozhai zhiyi		41
6	German (de) Liaozhai Zhiyi		30
7	Italian (it) Racconti straordinari dello studio Liao		30
8	Russian (ru) Ляо-чжай-чжи-и		23
9	Thai (th) โปเยโปโลเย		13
10	Korean (ko) 요재지이		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 聊斎志異		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Записки за странното от кабинета на Приказливия		0
3	German (de) Liaozhai Zhiyi		0
4	English (en) Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio		0
5	French (fr) Liaozhai zhiyi		0
6	Indonesian (id) Kisah Aneh Liaozhai		0
7	Italian (it) Racconti straordinari dello studio Liao		0
8	Korean (ko) 요재지이		0
9	Norwegian (no) Liaozhai zhiyi		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Contos Estranhos do Estúdio de Liao		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 聊齋志異		508
2	English (en) Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio		380
3	Japanese (ja) 聊斎志異		236
4	Vietnamese (vi) Liêu trai chí dị		125
5	Portuguese (pt) Contos Estranhos do Estúdio de Liao		66
6	Min Nan (zhminnan) Liâu-chai Chì-ī		42
7	Korean (ko) 요재지이		34
8	French (fr) Liaozhai zhiyi		33
9	Indonesian (id) Kisah Aneh Liaozhai		32
10	German (de) Liaozhai Zhiyi		22

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Записки за странното от кабинета на Приказливия
de	German Liaozhai Zhiyi
en	English Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
fr	French Liaozhai zhiyi
id	Indonesian Kisah Aneh Liaozhai
it	Italian Racconti straordinari dello studio Liao
ja	Japanese 聊斎志異
ko	Korean 요재지이
no	Norwegian Liaozhai zhiyi
pt	Portuguese Contos Estranhos do Estúdio de Liao
ru	Russian Ляо-чжай-чжи-и
sv	Swedish Liaozhai Zhiyi
th	Thai โปเยโปโลเย
uk	Ukrainian Ляо-чжай-чжи-і
vi	Vietnamese Liêu trai chí dị
zh	Chinese 聊齋志異
zhminnan	Min Nan Liâu-chai Chì-ī

Best Rank

English: #149272 10.2008

Global: #77009 05.2015

Best Rank

English: #23452 01.2023

Global: #33557 11.2012

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