Malinger Spring - The First Part of the Tragic End of the Dream of the Red Chamber

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, everything is captured; with a novelistic style and a historian's perspective, it forms a unique voice. "The Breakup of the Red Chamber," as Gao Yang himself said, tells "the story of Cao Xueqin," a historical novel that depicts the rise and fall of the Cao and Li families from luxurious mansions and fine living to financial decline and eventual exile back to Beijing. "Spring in Muling" is a , where Gao Yang delves into Cao Xueqin's original intent, using the suicide of the grand dowager of Ding to interpret the "seduction and death of Qin Keqing in the Fragrant Pavilion," thus beginning the decline and fall of the Suzhou family.