Wu Enyu comments on The Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Wu Enyu
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book is written by a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, combining long and profound essays with short and miscellaneous pieces. The author comments: Cao Xueqin, due to the high cost of urban life, could no longer afford to live there and moved to a remote village, making a living by selling paintings. Even when he sometimes struggled to make ends meet, he not only felt a sense of "knowing the warmth and cold" towards his relatives, friends, and other social connections, but also had the thought that "distant relatives and slow friends often scatter in the world due to wealth." He also had the perspective that "what kind of world is this" regarding the corrupt, dark, and violent feudal society at the time.