The Story of the Stone (Volumes 1 and 2)

Author: Xiao Han
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Publishing Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Since the publication of Dream of the Red Chamber, scholars and literati have continuously attempted to supplement it, resulting in works such as The Later Dream of the Red Chamber, The Continued Dream of the Red Chamber, The Expanded Dream of the Red Chamber, and The New Supplemented Dream of the Red Chamber, among others. However, The Tale Beyond the Red Chamber, written by the contemporary renowned writer Xiao Saiqiong with 23 years of painstaking effort during his imprisonment, is the only work unanimously praised by red scholars both at home and abroad. This book was published twice in the 1980s and became a bestseller at the time. Prominent red scholars such as Duan Riliangliang, Jiang Hesen, as well as literary giants Yang Hansheng and Wu Zuguang, successively wrote poems, inscribed titles, and reviewed the book. The renowned Japanese red scholar and translator of the Japanese version of Dream of the Red Chamber, Ito Shuping, also expressed his admiration: "Beyond the red and green, there are more towers—twenty years of hard work were not in vain." Now, it is republished to delight contemporary red scholars.