吴承恩

吴承恩 is the conventional author attribution for [[JourneyToTheWest|《西游记》]] in 43.西游记：咄！你是什么妖精！. The episode notes that this attribution is the answer many people learn in school, and connects its authority to later local-record and modern-scholarship acceptance rather than treating it as a simple fact that ends the question.

In the source, 吴承恩 matters less as a biography than as one pole in an authorship problem. [[QiuChuji|丘处机]] and [[YangShen|杨慎]] show how other attribution traditions can redirect the novel toward Daoist history or Ming political allegory. That makes 吴承恩 part of Accretive Text Formation and Classic Reading Complexity: a classic may be canonical while still carrying uncertain authorship, earlier source layers, and later scholarly stabilization.

Connections

• [[JourneyToTheWest|《西游记》]] - work conventionally attributed to him.
• [[QiuChuji|丘处机]] and [[YangShen|杨慎]] - alternative attribution figures discussed by the episode.
• Accretive Text Formation - textual-history concept that keeps authorship from being treated as a single closed answer.
• 索隐式阅读 / Suo Yin Reading - interpretive mode that becomes stronger when readers suspect hidden political authorship.