Character Painting Collection of The Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Ye Xiong
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Dream of the Red Chamber, originally titled The Story of the Stone, is one of China's four great classical novels and an unprecedented literary masterpiece in both Chinese and world literary history. Dream of the Red Chamber boasts a magnificent structure, rich content, and exquisite artistry. It profoundly reflects the significant transformations of 18th-century Chinese society and the spiritual landscape of its people through its realistic ideological content. Through the depiction of the rise and fall of the four great families (Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue), it presents a broad spectrum of life during that era, encompassing the diverse and colorful aspects of worldly human relationships. It holds the historical content of an entire era, serving as an encyclopedia of the late feudal period in China. This book takes Dream of the Red Chamber as its blueprint, focusing on its characters, presenting the essence of the novel in the form of one page per illustration.