Chinese fiction has its own kind of plots, and within Chinese fiction itself those of Dream of the Red Chamber and Chin P'ing Mei are quite different from each other.
伊維德強調，中國小說有中國小說的 plot；即使在中國小說裡，紅樓夢的 plot 和金瓶梅的 plot 也不一樣。中國人的生活，要中國人自己搞