Exploring the Collection: Zhou Siyuan on the Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Zhou Siyuan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: In the past decade, some have repeatedly claimed that the study of the Dream of the Red Chamber has made no progress since the mid-1980s, even saying that its days are numbered. The reason is that some researchers who studied the Dream of the Red Chamber in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s have moved on to other fields. I don’t think that if some [masters] stop, the study of the Dream of the Red Chamber will be finished or almost finished. Instead, I believe in Mr. Feng Qiyong’s words: [Great is the Dream of the Red Chamber, let’s discuss it for another thousand years!] Over the past two hundred years, countless works have been written on the Dream of the Red Chamber, but due to the individuality of the researchers and their different perspectives on textual study, they have "created and specialized in the creativity of their viewpoints." The Dream of the Red Chamber Interpreted by Renowned Scholars mainly collects self-selected works by prominent scholars in the field of the Dream of the Red Chamber research in China today. It includes representative writings of famous redologists such as Feng Qiyong, Li Xifan, Zhou Cezong, Lin Guanfu, Hu Wenbin, Lü Qixiang, Bai Dun, and others.