Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Xizhou Sheng
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is approximately one million words and divided into one hundred chapters. The first twenty-two chapters feature Chao Yuan and his wife Ji Shi and concubine Zhen Ge, while the last seventy-eight chapters feature Di Xichen and Xue Sujie and concubine Tong Jijie. The author uses the Buddhist belief in the all-powerful and omnipresent cause and effect as a thread to tie this group of birds and humans together.