Abstract
There has been no agreement in evaluating Hu Shih's revision of the 81st trial in A Journey in the academic circle. This paper takes the perspective of reception aesthetics and hermeneutics to approach the issue and claims the reasonability of Hu's revision. In the reader response in the process of reading, the agency of the reader's subjecthood should be fully acknowledged to be legitimate, while the merits or demerits of the revision may be subjected to individual evaluation. Hu's revision of A Journey to the West, even if breaking up the novel's unity as perceived by many readers, implicates creative insight behind the interpretive misreading which should be given credit.
First Page
95
Last Page
101
Recommended Citation
Zhu, Hongbo. 2015. "In Defense of Hu Shih's Revision of the 81st Trial in A Journey to the West." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (3): pp.95-101. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss3/4
