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Dream of the Red Chamber

Hongloumeng

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Cao Xueqin, author
  • Gao E, editor/continuator

Canon Rationale

A core Chinese novel, included for Qing social world, family decline, realism and romance, psychological characterization, poetry, material culture, and the global history of the novel.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 32.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Cao', eBook no. 9603.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency, contested authorship

Completion unit: read a complete edition or translation of the novel. The public-domain source note is evidence only; it is not the recommended completion edition.

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