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Suggest redirecting this page to the Dream of the Red Chamber page and adding "redology" as a category there.DavidCowhig 07:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It appears that Redology is a very active (if obscure) field of research in Chinese literature. I am Chinese myself, and I am astounded as to the complexity of this field of research. No redirecting. This topic is too complex to be added onto the Red Chamber article. Arbiteroftruth 08:51, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

"Redology" does not appear in any dictionary I find, and a Google search returns it only in Chinese-produced articles. Wouldn't erythrology be a better translation of "hongxue" than "redology"? For example, the OED gives erythro- as a prefix but not red. An alternative, but still English-appropriate translation might be "red studies" --WilliamDParker 18:49, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

That may be so, but do keep in mind wiki policy says "No original research". Redology seems to be the universally accepted english translation by both western & eastern academics alike. On the other hand "erythrology" turns up only three results in Google! Mrdini 21:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

I guess my point is that "redology" is only used by non-native speakers of English (I have found one exception[1]so far). I agree "erythrology" is, as far as I can tell, not extant. However, "red studies" does appear to be consistently used by native speakers of English[2]. WilliamDParker 20:32, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redology researchers

In my opinion, the researchers should at least include two more figures, Wang Guowei and Chen Duxiu. Some argued that it was a pity that modern Chinese Redology didn't follow Wang Guowei and Chen Duxiu, but instead Hu Shi. Those two's research seemed to be more focusing on literary aspects. I haven't read any works of these two, and someone should go and investigate it. As for literary aspects, there are many prominent scholars in modern China. For example, Cai Yijiang is an expert in poems of Dream of Red Chamber.

PS, I personally don't think Liu Xinwu is a professional researcher of Redology. He is a novelist in the first place. His research "papers" are more like novels, and his points of view could easily be challenged. History will prove his contribution may be as inferior as those of Cai Yuanpei. However, Liu did provide different thoughts, which itself is valuable in the scope of Red Studies. Ramtears (talk) 23:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)