Wuling You - The Breakup of Dream of the Red Chamber, Part 3

Author: Gao Yang
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Blending artistic imagination with historical research, it reconstructs the life journey of Cao Xueqin and his family's rise and fall; from military and state affairs to market gossip, it covers everything; with a novelistic style and a historian's perspective, it forms a unique voice. "The Breakup of the Red Chamber," as Gao Yang put it, tells the story of "Cao Xueqin," a historical novel that depicts the rise and fall of the Cao and Li families from their once opulent life of silk and gold to their eventual decline and exile back to the capital. In "The Five Tour," young Cao Xueqin appears, at the age of twelve. The Cao family no longer has the glory it once had under his grandfather Cao Yin, and only manages to maintain the hollow facade of a wealthy family under the authority of his grandmother Li and the scheming of the second grandmother.