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Shuihu Houzhuan, is a neglected early Qing dynasty novel that is a sequel to Water Margin. It was written by Chen Chen, his only novel, then revised and expanded by Cai Ao in a ?? chapter version published in 1770, which modified and simplified the text.
Background[edit]
Chen lived in the late Ming dynasty
The novel was welcomed in Meiji Japan. [1]
Plot[edit]
Critical studies[edit]
The first major study of the novel was Ellen Widmer's Margins of Utopia, published in 1988. [2] Robert E. Hegel, writing in Journal of Asian Studies, said [3]
References[edit]
- ^ Hedburg, William C.. Translation, Colonization, and the Fall of Utopia: The Qing Decline as Explained through Chinese Fiction. Japanese Language and Literature, [S.l.], v. 54, n. 1, p. 115-135, mar. 2020. ISSN 2326-4586. Available at: <https://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/79>. Date accessed: 18 sep. 2022. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/jll.2020.79.
- ^ McMahon, Keith (1988), "(Review) The Margins of Utopia", Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 48 (2): 545–550, doi:10.2307/2719323, JSTOR 2719323
- ^ Hegel, Robert E. (1988), "(Review) The Margins of Utopia", The Journal of Asian Studies, 47 (1): 136–137, doi:10.2307/2056390, JSTOR 2056390, S2CID 166578766
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