Dream of the Red Chamber: Book II (Hung Lou Meng)
- ISBN-10
- 1468187619
- ISBN-13
- 9781468187618
- Series
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 496
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-07
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Authors
- Cao Xueqin, Alex Struik, H. Bencraft Joly
Description
Dream of the Red Chamber is a masterpiece of Chinese literature and one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the mid-18th century during the Qing Dynasty and is generally acknowledged to be a pinnacle of Chinese fiction. The novel is believed to be semi-autobiographical, mirroring the rise and decay of author's own family and, by extension, of the Qing Dynasty. As the author states in the first chapter, it is intended to be a memorial to the women he knew in his youth - friends, relatives and servants. At the center of the story is Bao-yu, a precocious, spoiled, and undisciplined boy and his romantic affinity to his poetry-loving, orphaned cousin, Dai-yu. The novel is remarkable not only for its huge cast of characters and psychological scope, but also for its precise and detailed observation of the life and social structures typical of 18th-century Chinese aristocracy.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2022-12-15
- 281 pages
- Paperback
- Taylor & Francis
Similar books
-
Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber
Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber
-
Dream of the Red Chamber: Hung Lou Meng, Books I and II
By Cao XueqinDream of the Red Chamber is one of the four Chinese classics. The novel is semi-autobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18th-century life in China, particularly that of the aristocracy.
-
Dream of the Red Chamber - Chinese
By Cao Xue-Qin & Gao Eh谅黛玉心中一无所知了,又见紫鹃不在面前,因悄悄的拉了侍书的手问道:“你前日告诉我说的什么王大爷给这里宝二爷说了亲,是真话么?”侍书道:“怎么不真。 ... 侍书道:“那里就放定了呢。 ... 但林姑娘也得给他说了人家儿才好,不然女孩儿家长大了,那个没有心事?
-
The Dream of the Red Chamber (World's Classics Series)
By Cao XueqinIn the novel's frame story, a sentient Stone, abandoned by the goddess Nüwa when she mended the heavens aeons ago, begs a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk to take it with them to see the world.
-
The Red Chamber
By Pauline A. ChenI ask you; how much griefcan there be? As much as a spring river flowing east. Li Yu, Last Emperor of the Southern Tang, song lyric to the tune “The Beautiful Lady Yu." Xifeng arrives at the yamen nearly an hour later than PART FOUR ...
-
Red Chamber, World Dream: Actors, Audience, and Agendas in Chinese Foreign Policy and Beyond
By Jing SunA new, interdisciplinary way of looking at Chinese foreign policy
-
Dream of the Red Chamber
By Tsao Hsueh-ChinFor more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and...
-
The Dream of the Red Chamber: (Annotated Edition)
By Xueqin CaoThe book is one of the longest in ancient Chinese history, with more than 2,000 pages. The author's name can either be translated as Cao Xueqin, the most common translation, or Tsao Hseuh-Chin.
-
The Dream of the Red Chamber: An Allegory of Love
By Jeannie Jinsheng YiSong Yuan Ming Qing yanjiu luncong (Taipei: Dadong tushu gongsi yinxing, 1979), pp.123-214. 104 Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion (Mudanting), trans. Cyril Birch (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), p.x. According to Wen Lin, ...
-
The Dream of the Red Chamber
By Cao XueqinWhat can he do to protect the women he loves from violence, neglect, and abuse? Full of a fiery passion for love and beauty, Dream of the Red Chamber is the story of a young man in search of what is truly important to him.