南京大学中文系教授、博士生导师吴新雷是我国著名的红学家,他对《红楼梦》作者曹雪芹的家世生平曾作过长期的研究,写出了大量颇多创见的论文。他在钻研曹雪芹家世资料的过程中有重大的突破性发现,出版了《曹雪芹》《曹雪芹江南家世考》(合著)和《红楼梦导读》(合著)三部专书,从而奠定了在红学界的地位。此外,他还撰写过《两宋文学史》(合著),担任过《中国思想家评传丛书》的常务副主编。但吴新雷更突出的成就是在中国戏曲研究上,作为一位优 Wu Xinlei, a professor and doctoral tutor at Nanjing University, is a famous red-eye scientist in China. He made a long-term study of his family life by Cao Xueqin, author of A Dream of Red Mansions, and wrote a large number of essays on many of his ideas. He made significant breakthroughs in the study of Cao Xueqin’s family data and published three books, “Cao Xueqin”, “Cao Caoqin Jiangnan Family Test” (co-author) and “A Dream of Red Mansions” (co-authored) Academic status. In addition, he also authored “History of Two Song Literature” (co-author), served as executive editor of “Chinese thinkers review series.” But the more outstanding achievement of Wu Xinlei is that he is an excellent person in the study of Chinese opera