On Two Worlds of A Dream in Red Mansions and the Developing Direction of the Study of A Dream of Red Mansions

Two Worlds of A Dream of Red Mansions by YU Yingshi is an important work for the study of A Dream of Red Mansions. And it has an extensive and profound influence. Because of limitations of time and history, his theory has its own weakness: specification of the two worlds. It is mainly due to the influence of academic history of study of A Dream of Red Mansions and of both new and old social trends, and the misunderstanding of Kun’s paradigm theory. And it is necessary to reexamine it. The deepened study of A Dream of Red Mansions should be based on the careful reading of the text of the novel and innovative inheritance of predecessors’ fruits. This is really the way out.