Secret Copies: Why We Love Pseudo-History

Contents 3 pieces

1. Preface Why We Love Pseudo-History

   In 2018, the man who put out the "Guiyou manuscript" of *Dream of the Red Chamber* told a reporter that even he didn't understand why it had caught fire. This series wants to slowly talk through exactly that thing he never worked out. Said up front: I myself am one of those who are willing to believe.

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The Guiyou ManuscriptA "lost original": the Guiyou Dream of the Red Chamber

2. 2,400 Characters

   I compared the 28 chapters of the Guiyou manuscript with the last forty chapters of the Cheng-Gao edition, character by character. About two thousand four hundred characters are exactly the same. From here there is only one thing to ask: who copied whom?

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3. Lin Daiyu Rhyming in Standard MandarinComing soon