Redology Exploration: Liu Shide on the Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Liu Shide
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: For over two hundred years, there have been tens of thousands of research works on Dream of the Red Chamber. Due to the individuality of researchers and different perspectives on textual study, "the creativity and uniqueness of arguments have been formed." Interpretations of Dream of the Red Chamber by Renowned Scholars primarily collects self-selected works on Red Studies by prominent scholars in the field of Dream of the Red Chamber research in China today. This includes representative works by renowned redologists such as Feng Qiyong, Li Xifan, Zhou Shaoliang, Zhou Cezong, Liu Shide, Cai Yijiang, Lin Guanfu, Hu Wenbin, Deng Yunxiang, Lü Qixiang, Zhou Siyuan, and Bai Dun. Have you heard of Cao Xueqin's lost poem "Autobiographical Poem on a Painting of a Stone"? This book will tell you that it was the "copyist" who pretended to be the poem of his maternal grandfather. Have you heard of the portraits of Cao Xueqin by Qing Dynasty scholars Wang Gang and Lu Houxin? This book will tell you that the person depicted in the painting is not Cao Xueqin but Jin Tiyu and Yu Han. Red Studies are like the vast sea, and this book is merely a drop in the bucket.