A Dream of Red Mansions

Author: Xueqin Cao
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 604

Book Description
This celebrated Chinese classical novel is a masterpiece of realism written in the middle of the eighteen century during the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty. It takes as its background the decline of four great noble families and deals with the tragic love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. the novel provides a comprehensive and faithful picture of the social reality of the time, exposes the corrupt and iniquitous nature of feudal society and wrathfully denounces the crimes of the feudal autocratic system.

A Dream of Red Mansions

Author: Zhou Kexi
Publisher: Shanghai Press
ISBN: 9781602200043
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
This exquisite edition of A Dream of Red Mansions features a rare set of Qing Dynasty paintings by Sun Wen. This collector's edition features a complete set of Sun Wen's 230 paintings in splendid color, printed on fine paper. Condensed text from the original novel accompanies each of the paintings and offers a wonderful insight and a brief summary of each of the 120 chapters. This rare edition will be a keepsake for many generations, and is perfect for gift-giving and presentations. The original paintings are presently preserved in Lvshun Museum, Dalian, China.

Ladies of the Red Mansions

Author: Xueqin Cao
Publisher: Shanghai Book Traders
ISBN: 9781602202061
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This novel (variously translated into English as A Dream of red mansions, The Story of the stone, and Dream of the red chamber) is said to be an encyclopedia of eighteenth century imperial China. It explores the splendor and dramatic fall of a notable family during the reign of Emperor Qianlong and its characters range from those of the imperial court to humble villagers. This abridged version selected twenty-nine of the novel's women to explore their distinct idiosyncrasies and fate.

Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Cao Xueqin
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775416747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2120

Book Description
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. The plot is grand in scale, peopled with a complex array of characters.

The Red Chamber

Author: Pauline A. Chen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307946568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
In eighteenth-century China, the beautiful orphan Daiyu leaves her home in the provinces to seek shelter with her mother's family in Beijing. At Rongguo Mansion, she is drawn into a world of sumptuous feasts, silken robes, and sparkling jewels—as well as a complex web of secret rivalries and intrigues that threatens to trap her at every turn. When she falls in love with Baoyu, the family's brilliant, unpredictable heir, she finds the forces of the family and convention arrayed against her, and must risk everything to follow her heart. Based on the epic Dream of the Red Chamber—one of the most famous love stories in Chinese literature—this novel recasts a timeless tale for Western audiences to discover.

The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition

Author: Ruoxi Chen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253216908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Annotation A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, the text has been thoroughly revised and updated to Pinyin romanization. A new introduction reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tianamen era.

Hashim and Family

Author: Shahnaz Ahsan
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781473665255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description

The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days

Author: Cao Xueqin
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description
The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden Days, begins the tale of Bao-yu, a gentle young boy who prefers girls to Confucian studies, and his two cousins: Bao-chai, his parents' choice of a wife for him, and the ethereal beauty Dai-yu. Through the changing fortunes of the Jia family, this rich, magical work sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, political intrigues, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that earthly existence is an illusion and karma determines the shape of our lives.

红楼梦

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789810032753
Category : Bilingual books
Languages : zh-CN
Pages :

Book Description

A Dream of Red Mansion, Complete and Unexpurgated

Author: Cao Xueqin
Publisher: Disruptive Publishing
ISBN: 1608726304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1336

Book Description
The classic tale of the Ning and Rong families, Chinese aristocrats on the wrong side of the wheel of fate. Starring Baoyu, a character unique in literature, the young man who finds his own kind filthy, and seeks only the company of women. With characters high and low, corrupt and chaste, human and supernatural. Illustrated.