Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber

by Anthony C. Yu

Book Overview

The eighteenth-century Hongloumeng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels--one that masterfully blends realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurrences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloumeng...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691090130
• ISBN13: 9780691090139
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"