Dream 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.
"Henry Bencraft Joly's attention to detail and the faithfulness in his translation of Hong Lou Meng makes this revised edition of The Dream of the Red Chamber an excellent book for the student of modern Chinese." —Edwin H. Lowe, from his ...
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.
Thus he started to write his novel "The Story of the Stone" (later renamed "Dream of Red Chamber") regarded as the pinnacle of the Chinese classical novel.
Thus he started to write his novel "The Story of the Stone" (later renamed "Dream of Red Chamber") regarded as the pinnacle of the Chinese classical novel.
Long considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, the novel is generally acknowledged to be one of the pinnacles of Chinese fiction. "Redology" is the field of study devoted exclusively to this work.
The 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 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.
This eBook version of Dream of the Red Chamber, Book 1;presents the full text of this literary classic.
This eBook version of Dream of the Red Chamber, Book 2 presents the full text of this literary classic.
Dream of the Red Chamber, also known as "The Story of the Stone", is a Chinese classic.
Journal of Red Chamber Dreams 紅樓夢學刊, no. 3: 221–35. Tseng, Lillian Lan-ying. 2020. Picturing Heaven in Early China. Leiden: Brill. Wang Cong 王聰. 2018. “Hongloumeng he luomi'ou yu zhuliye zhong de aiqingguan bijiao”《紅樓夢》 ...
Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueQin.
For 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...
Long considered a masterpiece of Chinese literature, the novel is generally acknowledged to be one of the pinnacles of Chinese fiction. "Redology" is the field of study devoted exclusively to this work.