Talk:Jin Shengtan

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"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.