Revised Stone Story: Jia Xu Edition (4th Revised Edition)

Author: Cao Xueqin
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is the first corrected edition of the Jiaxu manuscript of Dream of the Red Chamber published domestically and internationally to date. The greatest difference between this edition and the commonly printed versions lies in: it allows us to glimpse the early original form of the novel as created by Cao Xueqin in his lifetime, and we can directly savor the 1,600+ precious annotations left by the author's "red companion" Liyanzhai on the Jiaxu original manuscript. This is the key to unlocking the maze of Dream of the Red Chamber! The base text used for this edition is one of the 11 extant annotated editions of Dream of the Red Chamber discovered to date, the earliest in terms of production date, most authentic in preserving the original form, yet the most incomplete, yet the most precious. It was discovered and collected by Mr. Hu Shi in 1927 and is now housed in the Cornell University Library in the United States. Today, it is typeset and printed based on the facsimile edition first published in Taiwan in 1961, and all relevant materials related to this edition from both the original base text and the facsimile edition are included. This is the first corrected edition of the Jiaxu manuscript of Dream of the Red Chamber published domestically and internationally to date. The greatest difference between this edition and the commonly printed versions lies in: it allows us to glimpse the early original form of the novel as created by Cao Xueqin in his lifetime, and we can directly savor the 1,600+ precious annotations left by the author's "red companion" Liyanzhai on the Jiaxu original manuscript. This is the key to unlocking the maze of Dream of the Red Chamber! The base text used for this edition is one of the 11 extant annotated editions of Dream of the Red Chamber discovered to date, the earliest in terms of production date, most authentic in preserving the original form, yet the most incomplete, yet the most precious. It was discovered and collected by Mr. Hu Shi in 1927 and is now housed in the Cornell University Library in the United States. Today, it is typeset and printed based on the facsimile edition first published in Taiwan in 1961, and all relevant materials related to this edition from both the original base text and the facsimile edition are included.