Li's comments of Romance of the Three Kingdoms have an extremely important enlightening role in elucidating the arguments of Mao's comments.Mao's comments not only absorbed Li's comments,but also conducted in-depth explorations and refutations of his viewpoints.From the perspective of intertextuali-ty theory,there is a typical intertextual relationship between the two reviews.As the post text of Mao's comments,there are mainly three intertextual techniques for its predecessor's review:first,copying and misappropriating;Second,rewriting and expanding;Third,dialogue and refutation.It was the use of these intertextual techniques that Mao's comments either positively or negatively drew sufficient commentary nu-trients from Li's comments,thus melting its own flesh and blood and promoting the canonization process of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.In short,Li's comments provided Mao's comments with a reference example for comments;on the other hand,Mao's comments indirectly explained and interpreted Li's comments while inheriting,developing,and criticizing them.
intertextual approachcopying and misappropriatingrewriting and expandingdialogue and refutation