“I did not believe Zhang Ye when it first started. How could it be that Cao Xueqin only wrote the first 80 chapters of ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’, but when I finished listening to the 2nd lecture, I really began to doubt what I had known all my life!”
“Yea, Teacher Zhang Ye might really be speaking the truth!”
“I think so too. His explanations are too logical!”
“That’s right. From historical documents to character analysis and even plot logic, it was all explained fully!”
“No wonder no one dared to speak about ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ in the past. No wonder it was not easy to speak about ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’. That is because after the first 80 chapters, it had been continued on by another writer. So how could it be explained properly at all?!”
“If we follow Zhang Ye’s analysis, ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ should be the top among the Four Great Classical Novels, and not last!”
“I feel that Zhang Ye’s arguments are still quite controversial. It has to be researched further.”