A Study of the Authorship of Chin P'ing Mei and the Age describud in the work-from the point of View of Dramatic Works

本研究的目的是广泛研究与《金瓶梅》相关的戏剧题材和思想，并通过对它们之间的关系或相似之处的考量，弄清楚《金瓶梅》写于何时，作者的意图是什么，使用了什么样的手法。以下是我成功地发现的。(1)考察了人物从六百年周期中死亡的日期，我的结论是，这部小说的作者花了十多年的时间写这部小说。(2)政治讽刺以一种不是每个红人都能理解的方式包裹在作品中。(3)这部小说背后的一个意图是讽刺地描述嘉诚时期官员无论大小，在一个暴发户的控制下，玩弄专断和错误的政治游戏。

The purpose of this research is to study widely dramas related to Chin p'ng Mei in terms of their themes and ideas, and, through consideration of the relationship or likeness between them, to make clear when Chin p'ing Mei was written, what the author's intention was, and what kinds of Techniques were used.The following are what I have succeeded in finding out.(1) After examining the dates of the characters' deaths from the sexagenary cycle, I conclude that the author wrote this novel spending more than ten years from the end of Ka-sei period to Ryu-kei period.(2) Political satire is wrapped up in the work in the way not every redder can understand.(3) One intention underlying this novel is to aim at describing satirically the arbitrary and erroneous politics playd by officials, big or small, who are under control of a mere upstart merchant in Ka-sei period.