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Hung Lou Meng

Or, The Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I

English translation · Translated by H. Bencraft Joly

by Xueqin Cao

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A discarded stone gains awareness and becomes the starting point for an account of family life in China. After meeting a Buddhist monk and a Taoist priest, it acquires a history that brings dreams and visions into the affairs of a cultured household. The opening gives particular attention to the women whose talents and actions the writer wishes to remember, and describes a story containing poems, riddles and love affairs.

H. Bencraft Joly's English translation presents this first book through both an imaginative frame and detailed social exchanges. Chia Chen arranges the purchase of an official appointment for his son while noble visitors and relatives assemble during mourning. The attention to payments, inherited rank and ceremonial obligations gives the domestic scenes a public dimension.

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Pages
434
Language
English
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