Malinger Spring (The First Part of The Story of the Stone)

Author: Gao Yang
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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 Fall 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 luxurious mansions and fine robes to financial decline and eventual exile back to Beijing. "Spring in Muling" is a work where Gao Yang delves into Cao Xueqin's original intent, using the suicide of the grand dowager of Ding to interpret the "debauchery and death of Qin Keqing in the Fragrant Pavilion," thereby beginning the decline and fall of the Li Xun family of Suzhou's textile manufacturing.