Between noble and humble : Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the red chamber / Zhou Ruchang ; edited by Ronald R. Gray and Mark S. Ferrara ; translated by Liangmei Bao and Kyongsook Park.
Between "Noble and Humble" : a peculiar family history -- The mixing of Manchu and Han culture -- The close connection between the Cao family and the Kangxi emperor -- Outstanding talents of the early Qing dynasty -- Sudden misfortune comes -- After a long drought, heavy rain fell : The birth of a luminary -- The plot and cruel persecution -- Unusual heredity -- Bondservants in the imperial household department -- The old mansion at the Jinling Imperial Textile Factory -- Great disaster looms -- The catastrophe of confiscation -- A little courtyard in Suanshikuo -- Cao Xueqin's most influential teachers -- Seventy-two divisions of hell and more than one hundred maidservants -- "Petals fall as the water runs red" -- Out of misfortune comes happiness : the Paozi riverside -- Splendidly clothed but lost among actors -- "The sentimental world" -- An astonishing new philosophy of "good and evil" -- House arrest -- A second radical change -- Wandering aimlessly and living off relatives -- Friendship with the Dun brothers forged -- The land of poetry -- writing in tears and blood -- West mountain and wormwood weeds -- "An old dream of Qinhuai, yet the people remain" -- The red inkstone commentary -- The Yangshi compound at anding gate -- "A proud and aloof person like you astonishes the world" -- The thin mist of evening over Cao's humble hut -- The death of a literary genius -- A matter of eternal regret.
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