Dream of the Red Chamber: Appreciation and Collection Edition

Author: Cao Xueqin
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This long-selling, timeless masterpiece of nearly one million and seven hundred thousand words features over ten thousand introductory and appreciation entries, striving for simplicity, clarity, reliability, expressiveness, and elegance. Its annotations are both solemn and playful, uncovering hidden meanings with extraordinary insight, setting a precedent unmatched by any predecessor. This volume aims to further perfect and enrich this magnificent work, blending literary content, the world of human studies, philosophical thought, and aesthetic language to elevate its originality, ingenuity in structure, beauty of diction, clarity of organization, surprise in openings and closings, skillful interweaving, vivid portrayal, meticulous narration, authenticity in observation, sincerity in expression, precision in naming, and thoroughness in writing, making it even more perfect and gloriously renowned. This volume combines the value of appreciation, research, and collection, fusing the essence of two centuries of literature and the strengths of a hundred schools of thought into one.