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Dream of the Red Chamber
 

Dream of the Red Chamber

by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

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 a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful, accurate and fascinating. (read review)

Top tags: china,  chinese literature,  fiction,  historical fiction,  poetry (all tags)

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jessica L
  • Rated 5 stars

“One of my favourite books. I have read it for many times. Countless researches in various areas have been doing since it was published hundred years ago. It is a great book!”

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Lenon
  • Rated 1 stars

“My apologies to China and to all the people who count this as a great monument of China's culture, but this was the most painful book I ever read. If there is a condition like boredom but of nearly lethal intensity, that's what I suffered. Save yourselves!”

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  • Rated 3.913043 stars
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  • Rated 4.454545 stars
  

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  • xooz98

    xooz98 said:

    “Oh, I guess I intended the last half of the reply for the other guy. Sorry. Jin Yong is the wuxia writer, right? I think there are some novels in translation (by the same translator as this volume). I haven't read them so I don't really know.

    I had a hard time enjoying the other of the "four classic novels". Later I realized that I just wanted to read this one again. After so many years of predictable "brilliant scholar/beautiful women" stories, finally someone made literature out of it.”

    posted Sunday, October 21 2007
  • xooz98

    xooz98 said:

    “Really? I thought it was pretty exciting and romantic. There are five volumes though, I hope you didn't start with the fourth one.”

    posted Friday, October 19 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
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