关键词: 中国文学, 《桃花扇》, 《山海经》, 江南山水, 梦

Abstract: Professor Shi Tingquan (Richare E. Strassberg) in UCLA had been exposed to Chinese culture in his childhood. Later, he studied in Princeton University for his Doctor's degree, his research was on K'ung Shang-ren's play The Peach Blossom Fan and later he wrote a book named The World of K'ung Shang-ren: A Man of Letters in Early Ch'ing China. In the book, he argued that K'ung put many things he had experienced into his play and made it into a semi-biographical play. K'ung's Peach Blossom Fan and the beautiful sceneries of the South Yangtze River depicted in this book further intrigued Professor Strassberg to study Chinese fictions and dramas, and he became increasingly interested in the classic gardens in the South of Yangtze River as well as Chinese literature of natural landscapes. He became interested in The Classic of Mountains and Seas and "dreams" in traditional Chinese culture, so he began his investigations into these areas and establish his own way to study Chinese literature.

Key words: Chinese literature, The Peach Blossom Fan, The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the landscapes of the South Yangtze river, dream