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Start of the project gutenberg ebook, hung lou meng, book i etext prepared by juliet sutherland and project gutenberg distributed proofreaders editors note. Hung lou meng, book i or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel in two books xueqin cao odde. The greatest novel in the chinese tradition, dream of the red. This outline is designed to provide a bit of guidance as you read volume 1 of the story of the stone. Aside from prefaces and essays of a more general nature that appear as front matter, the commentaries themselves consist of comments attached as closely as possible to that section of the text to which they refer. Bencraft joly is available at in several formats for your ereader. Free audio book that you can download in mp3, ipod and itunes format for your portable audio player. In china the hung lou meng is considered the outstanding classic novel of. I am less interested at this point in your appreciation of the novel as a literary work than i am in the book as a reflection of chinese culture world view. Or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel contributors. A study of the words of your mouth presenting in serious simplic. Buy cao xueqin ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device. Hung lou meng,or,the dream of the red chamber,a chinese. Hung lou meng, book i or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel in two books cao, xueqin on.
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Cao xueqin, a member of an eminent family that had served the qing dynasty emperors but whose fortunes had begun to decline, began composing dream of the red chamber during the 1740s. The novel is semiautobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18thcentury life in china, particularly that of the aristocracy. Hung lou meng, book ii by cao xueqin part 3 out of 14. Hung lou meng, or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel, book i english as author hung lou meng, or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel, book ii english as author. Dream of the red chamber is one of the four chinese classics. Or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel in two books cao xueqin on. Hung lou meng the dream of the red chamberbook 1 ebook by. The bulk of traditional chinese fiction criticism takes the form of commentary editions on individual works. Hung lou meng, or, the dream of the red chamber, a chinese novel, book ii by cao free ebook project gutenberg. This was later accepted for publication by the asia society of new york, but the project was abandoned when penguin announced its proposed translation by professor david hawkes, with john minford.
No one will deny that the hungloumeng abounds in autobiographical clues. This is part 1of 2 of the ancient chinese erotic masterpiece. Hung lou meng, book i cao xueqin was a man of many facets. Dream of the red chamber or hung lou meng hung lou meng. Read hung lou meng the dream of the red chamber book 1 by cao xueqin available from rakuten kobo.
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Scholars specialized in studying this work have grouped its various editions into two main versions. In the ta kuan garden, broad vista, the merits of paoyu are put to the test, by his being told to write devices for scrolls and tablets yuan chun returns to the jung kuo mansion, on a visit to her parents, and offers her congratulations to them on the feast of lanterns, on the fifteenth of. The translators were florence and isabel mchugh and the book was published in 1958 by pantheon, new york. Ebook hung lou meng, book i or, the dream of the red chamber, a.
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