Red Chamber Dream Poetry, Lyrics, and Prose Appreciation

Author: Cai Yijiang
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book is based on the author's highly acclaimed work, "Commentary on Poems, Lyrics, Quatrain, Prose, and Songs in Dream of the Red Chamber" (published over two decades ago), with added content, enhanced artistic analysis, and revisions. It comprehensively collects various forms of texts from different versions of Dream of the Red Chamber, including poems, lyrics, quatrains, prose, ballads, classical essays, letters, riddles, drinking games, couplets, and antitheses. It even includes poems unique to the rarely seen Zhi Ping manuscripts, making it the most complete collection available. To aid readers in deeper understanding, each piece is accompanied by "Introduction," "Annotations," "Appreciation," or "Commentary," with some also featuring "Appendices" or "Supplementary Notes." For particularly challenging texts like "Eulogy for the Plum Blossom Maiden," a "Translation" is provided. The book's arguments are brilliant and highly inspiring. The "Supplementary Sections" contain invaluable reference materials for studying Dream of the Red Chamber and its author. Among them, the article "Introduction to Editions" incorporates the latest research findings in the field of redology, making it well worth reading.