User:CWH/Shuihu Houzhuan

Shuihu Houzhuan, is a neglected early Qing dynasty novel that is a sequel to Water Margin. It was written by Chen Chen, his only novel, then revised and expanded by Cai Ao in a  ?? chapter version published in 1770, which modified and simplified the text.

Background
Chen lived in the late Ming dynasty

The novel was welcomed in Meiji Japan.

Critical studies
The first major study of the novel was Ellen Widmer's Margins of Utopia, published in 1988. Robert E. Hegel, writing in Journal of Asian Studies, said