Abstract: “New Text” scholarship was an important academic school of thought. It is also topic that has interested scholars both in China and overseas, and there are still disagreements on some questions. Professor Benjamin Elman has attributed Zhuang Cunyu’s turn toward the revival of New Text in his old age to opposition to the regent, Heshen. This was the political significance underlying the rise of Changzhou New Text scholarship. Elman’s viewpoint has been influential. This paper, based on ample first-hand documentation, contends that it is impossible to delineate the confrontation and struggle between Zhuang and Heshen; meanwhile, this paper shows that Zhuang’s research on the classics was consistent throughout his whole life, and did not change in his old age. The author further points out that we should be discriminating in our reception of foreign scholarship.