Chen is best known today as the author of Clandestine Jottings from My Little Window, a book he did not write, claims Greenbaum. An Australian historian of China, he noticed first that the
headings, then that the entire text of an obscure work called The Scouring Blade from the Hall of an Infatuation with Antiquity by the even more obscure Lu Shaoheng, were identical to those in
Jottings. He argues that Lu's was the original work, first published in the 1620s, then reprinted in the 1770s under Chen's then famous name to increase sales. The study is about the power of
names during the period. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
