The reason for asking such a question is "Cao Xueqin wrote only the first 80 chapters of the novel. The last 40 were writ ten by a number of different people. This means that there's a lot of room to imagine how the later development might have gone," she says.
這麼問的理由是，「曹雪芹寫了前八十回小說，後四十回有很多人接下去，表示後來的發展有很多想像空間」，她說。