Dream People in the Red Chamber Storms - The Life of Red Chamber Scholar Zhou Ruchang: The Life of Red Chamber Scholar Zhou Ruchang

Author: Liang Guizhi
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: A renowned redologist in both China and abroad, a life of over eighty years through storms, and a century of tumultuous redology! Redology, as an "academic" in the modern sense, has become an independent discipline for a full hundred years. Wang Guowei's publication of A Review of the Dream of the Red Chamber in 1904 can be seen as a marker of redology's transition from a playful term to a formal "discipline." And from the perspective of the Guwei theory, the Jiaoshen theory, or even the Renwu theory, 2004 can also be considered the 240th anniversary of Cao Xueqin's passing. Due to the "Twenty Years Reunion" of actors from the CCTV Variety Channel's Dream of the Red Chamber drama, the redology lectures on the Science and Education Channel's One Hundred Schools Forum, the popularity of the drama Cao Xueqin on the Video Channel, and the best-selling redology books such as The Bright Red of the Red Chamber by the Writer's Publishing House, this book is a biography of redology master Zhou Ruchang written by Dalian redology expert Liang Guizhi over three years. The book takes Zhou Ruchang's research on Dream of the Red Chamber as its main thread, recording major events in the life, research, and social interactions of the subject. From the perspective of a redology expert, the author outlines the life of over eighty years through storms for Zhou Ruchang, reflecting the fate of a generation of scholars and showcasing the tumultuous developments of redology over the past century. The book focuses on revealing Zhou Ruchang's inner cultural spirit, a grand demeanor that embodies traditional poetry, literary theory, calligraphy, Zen Buddhism, opera, folklore, and dedicates a lifetime to promoting Chinese culture. This is a biography of redology master Zhou Ruchang written by redology expert Liang Guizhi over three years. Zhou Ruchang, a famous scholar in China, is a representative figure who bridges the old and new redology. A renowned classical literature scholar, calligrapher, and poet, he published a Dream of the Red Chamber academic paper during his studies at the Foreign Languages Department of Yanjing University, drawing the attention of the great scholar Hu Shi, and the two formed a rare redological bond. Zhou Ruchang's New Evidence of the Dream of the Red Chamber was published in 1953 and was hailed as an "epoch-making work in redology," leading to him being specially transferred back to Beijing for work. Later, he underwent several redological ideological criticism movements but his academic beliefs. After the Cultural Revolution, he published over ten redological monographs covering all aspects of the field, attracting attention from academia both at home and abroad. The book takes Zhou Ruchang's research on Dream of the Red Chamber as its main thread, recording major events in the life, research, and social interactions of the subject. From the perspective of a redology expert, the author outlines the life of over eighty years through storms for Zhou Ruchang, reflecting the fate of a generation of scholars and showcasing the tumultuous developments of redology over the past century. The book focuses on revealing Zhou Ruchang's inner cultural spirit, a grand demeanor that embodies traditional poetry, literary theory, calligraphy, Zen Buddhism, opera, folklore, and dedicates a lifetime to promoting Chinese culture.