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The story of the stone, also known by the title of the dream of the red chamber, is the great novel of manners in chinese literature. It sets worldly events love affairs, sibling rivalries, even murder within the context of the buddhist understanding that karma determines the shape of our lives. 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 romeoandjuliet love story and a portrait of one of the worlds great civilizations. The dream of the red chamber, also called the story of the stone, or hongloumeng, composed by cao xueqin, is one of chinas four great classical novels. A novel by cynthia freeman in chm, epub, fb3 download ebook. The dream of the red chamber by cao xueqin download free. Jan 12, 2008 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread. One of chinas four great classical novels, the dream of the red chamber is perhaps the greatest novel written in the chinese vernacular. Chichen wangs translation is skillful, accurate and fascinating. So does the 16th century journey to the west about chinese buddhist monk xuanzangs pilgrimage to india to study buddhism and obtain accurate copies of religious texts and the exploits of his three supernatural cotravellers and protectors, especially the monkey king, while cao xueqin s 18th century dream of the red chamber, about the decline of a noble family is. The fifth part of cao xueqin s magnificent saga, the dreamer awakes, was carefully edited and completed by gao e some decades later. The dream of the red chamber is one of the pdf four great classical novels of chinese literature. It is the first printed edition of the classic novel written by cao xueqin circa 1715. Baochai, his parents choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty daiyu.
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