Rescue and Peripateticism -- Comments on Stone Image in the Novel Gao Lao Zhuang.

The stone image in the novel Gao Lao Zhuang is built on the basis of traditional Confucian culture. But it also marks the end of it. It is in peripatetic state of Taoism, but at the same time try to save the already close to collapse of the patriarchal culture as well. This paper tries to explain the function of the stone, a myth prototype, in Gao Lao Zhuang, through comparing the stone image in "Gao Lao Zhuang" with the same image in A Dream of Red Mansions , in which we can finally get the mythic and realistic values from the stone image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Asian Social Science is the property of Canadian Center of Science & Education and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)