Branding"Literary Genius"in Jin Shengtan's 70-Chapter Edition of the Water Margin

作     者：Henry Lem Henry Lem

作者机构：Asian School IDepartment of ChineseDefense Language InstituteMontereysCA 93944USA 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第14卷第3期

页      面：480-513页

学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：Jin Shengtan Water Margin literary genius fiction commentaries sequels rhetoric 

摘      要：Jin Shengtan wrote his commentaries to the novel Water Margin(Shuihuzhuan)between 1641 and 1644,during the final years before the fall of the Ming *** commentaries are exceptional at least in part because they reflect Jin s frustrations that came from trying to understand this period of *** they are also a good example of how fiction commentary helped to shape the trajectory that the development of Chinese fiction would take,in the form of commentaries and *** article offers a reading of Jin s commentaries to his 70-chapter edition of the Water Margin,to investigate how Jin radically reshaped the Water Margin as the masterpiece of a commentator of great literary *** analyses Jin s rhetoric of controlling interpretation and concludes that Jin s ultimate goal was to stabilize and prevent tampering of hisoriginal70-chapter edition,in an attempt to close off future possibilities ofsequelingthe Water Margin.