Actually, in S.I.Hsiung’s remarks, it can be found out that there are threepurposes in his selection of text. The first one is to gain. Clifford says that a travel “isan inclusive embracing a range of more or less voluntarist practices of leaving ‘home’to go to some ‘other’ place. The displacement takes place for the purpose of gain —material, spiritual, scientific. It involves obtaining knowledge and/or having an‘experience’ (Clifford, 1997:66)”. From the first place, S.I.Hsiung shows theconfidence and trust towards the original text, Xixiang Ji, for the accumulation ofliterary quality at home and abroad supported his determination. More importantly,compared with the story of Lady Precious Stream, the main plot of Xixiang Ji sharesthe same dramatic core as that of the western dramas, which includes the pursuit for