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Between Noble and Humble: Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber- Edited by Ronald R. Gray and Mark S. Ferrara- Translated by Liangmei Bao
Contributor(s): Wawrytko, Sandra a. (Other), Ferrara, Mark S. (Author), Gray, Ronald (Author)

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 ISBN: 1433104075     ISBN-13: 9781433104077
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
OUR PRICE: $113.56  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2009
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous
Dewey: 895.134
LCCN: 2009014919
Series: Asian Thought and Culture
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.19 lbs) 238 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
Features: Bibliography, Index
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 257
 
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Publisher Description:
Between Noble and Humble: Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber (曹雪芹新传, literally New Biography of Cao Xueqin) is a translation of a scholarly work by the famous mainland Chinese critic Zhou Ruchang. Written for the Western reader, it historicizes the life and times of the Chinese novelist Cao Xueqin (c. 1715-1763) and comprehensively introduces the origins of the novel Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng). This translation is unique because it offers the first book-length biography of Cao Xueqin in English. Zhou carefully historicizes the decline of the once illustrious Cao clan, and he demonstrates how Cao Xueqin's own childhood experiences in a wealthy bondservant family during the Qing dynasty profoundly informed the encyclopedic narrative that he would later write. In Between Noble and Humble, Zhou also offers intriguing and controversial theories about Honglou meng based on decades of careful research, for instance, that the famous commentator Red Inkstone was in fact a female relative of Cao Xueqin.
 
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