《石清虚》作为《聊斋志异》中的名篇,历来为研究者所青目。美国汉学家、著名聊斋研究专家蔡九迪(Judith T.Zeitlin)教授独拈出一个“癖”字以探寻《石清虚》的艺术特色与文学价值。在笔者观来,相较于国内相关研究,蔡九迪的解读至少呈示出如下特色:首先,文化史的研究视角,即给予文学以文化审视,将研究的视野投诸文学同文化间的系联。蔡九迪在解读《石清虚》时,拈出中国古代“癖”文化为大的语境,掇拾古人在医学文献、历史 “Shi Qing” as a famous novel in “Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio” has always been a green light for researchers. The American sinologist and Professor Llamas Judith T. Zeitlin, a famous expert in the study of Liao Zhai, exclusively inspected the artistic features and literary values ​​of “Shi Qing Xu”. In the author’s view, compared with the domestic related research, Tsai Jiudi’s interpretation at least shows the following characteristics: First of all, the cultural history of research perspective, that is, to give literature to cultural perspective, the research perspective into the literature and cultural ties. When Cai Jidi interprets “Shi Qing Xu”, it extracts the ancient Chinese “addiction” culture as a big context, and picks up the ancients in medical literature and history