Dream of the Red Chamber

The Jia family's grandeur and dissolution, seen through Baoyu's enchanted adolescence.

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The greatest Chinese novel: Buddhist illusion staged as domestic minutiae, where the fate of a household is legible in a lost handkerchief.

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