Red Chamber Heart Interpretation -- Notes on Reading "Dream of the Red Chamber"

Author: Yu Pingbo
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Yu Pingbo is renowned as a co-founder of the "New Red School" alongside Hu Shi. His work A Study of the Dream of the Red Chamber was first published in 1923 and was revised and renamed A Research on the Dream of the Red Chamber in the early 1950s, becoming one of the key works of the school. During the "Great Criticism of Red Studies" in 1954, Yu Pingbo and his works were targeted for criticism, which also made him a household name both in China and abroad. This book collects some of his most important works on Red Studies outside of A Research on the Dream of the Red Chamber. Notes on Reading was written just before the Great Criticism and was serialized in the Hong Kong Da Gong Bao, but it was never published as a standalone book. Works such as Words from a Child Who Knows Joy and "The Moonlight of Old Times" are his late-life summaries, achieved after enduring great hardships. Yu Pingbo discusses the Dream of the Red Chamber with a microcosmic perspective, presenting profound insights in an accessible manner. His research is both rigorously documented and engaging, filled with fascinating and witty commentary, making it a model for red studies.