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In 1791, together with his partner Cheng Weiyuan (
In 1921, Hu Shih proposed that the last forty chapters of Dream of the Red Chamber were written by Gao E himself. His proposition was accepted by many orthodox Redologist scholars such as Zhou Ruchang. Gao and Cheng's continuation is believed by some as a conspiracy by the Qing dynasty imperial court to hide the semi-autobiographical nature of the novel, which involves the politics of the Yongzheng era.[2] During the mid-20th century, the discovery of a pre-1791 "120 chapter manuscript" complicated the questions regarding Gao's involvement. Irene Eber found the discovered manuscript "seems to confirm Cheng and Gao's claim that they merely edited a complete manuscript, consisting of 120 chapters, rather than actually writing a portion of the novel."[3]
References
edit- ^ See Cai Yijiang, 蔡义
江 :《后 四十回没有曹雪芹一个字》;周 汝 昌 :《流行 本 《红楼梦》后 四 十 回 叙 书》--“一 百 二 十 回 是 ‘假 全 本 ’”。 - ^ Conspiracy of the Red Mansions, Joel Martinsen,, December 8, 2006 http://www.danwei.org/books/conspiracy_of_the_red_mansions.php, Retrieved February 16, 2011.
- ^ Eber, Irene (1996). "Riddles in The Dream of the Red Chamber". In Hasan-Rokem, Galit; Shulman, David Dean (eds.). Untying the knot: on riddles and other enigmatic modes. Oxford University Press. p. 237. ISBN 0-19-510856-6.
Sources
edit- Zhou Ruchang,
周 汝 昌 :《流行 本 《红楼梦》后 四 十 回 叙 书》,北京 出版 社 , pp. 307–8.