After his trip to the northwest of China in 1939,Lao She completed his long new poem named Trip for Solicitude in the Northwest in 1940,which was published in newspapers and magazines at the time.A single volume of this poem was published in 1942.Later,it was collected in Lao She's Complete Works and Lao She's Collected Works.The proofreading of several major versions of the poem revealed that there existed a large number of alternative versions due to artistic modifications,printing and proofreading errors,and editing errors in the collection.The approach to the poem's alternative versions includes restorative and heterogeneous proofreading,which could correct the errors and edit both the precise and the repertoire versions.Sorting out the genealogy of the alternative versions of the present poem will be helpful to accurate and in-depth interpretation.
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