Talk:Jin Shengtan

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Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

"record of the west room"--is this supposed to be 西遊记? --Anon

No, 西廂记. I guess it's not a common translation. --Menchi 00:35, 8 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Hu Shi was actually quite critical of Jin Shengtan's work on the Water Margin and approved enthusiastically of its removal from the text. He sees Jin as outmoded, a creature of his time whose single saving grace was that he advocated "vernacular" prose.

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