Ever since the new age, people’s evaluation of Li Yu has greatly changed. This article gives introspection to Lu Xun’s study of Li Yu as a penster, which is an important academic proposition, and tries to have a relatively fair evaluation of Li Yu. It is believed in this article that Li Yu, as a penster, was different from those professional pensters for his thoughts and personality . Being a penster was mainly the social image in the later stage of his life. The reason why Li Yu became a penster lay in his philosophy advocating hedonism, pursuing capricious pragmatism as well as in his personality with no independent integrity.
钟明奇. 重评李渔“帮闲”说[J]. 浙江工商大学学报, 2013, (4): 11-17.
ZHONG Mingqi. New Comment on LiYu as a Penster. Journal of Zhejing Gongshang University, 2013, (4): 11-17.