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The British orientalist Arthur Waley, in his Introduction to the 1947 New York edition translated by Miall, advances his strong personal opinion on the author being Xu Wei, a renowned painter and a well-known member of the " realistic " Gong-an school of writers, and objects to the traditional attribution to Wang Shih-Chêng on the grounds of the latter's totally different and more traditional artistic point of view.
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