Chinese and Foreign Studies of A Dream of Red Mansions

• 出 处: China & World Cultural Exchange
• 发表日期: 1993年6期
• 关键词: Mansions DYNASTY writing SPENT illness TRANSLATOR LIVED translated SCHOLAR PROSP

CAO XUEQIN,one of thegreatest novelists in China’shistory,lived in the middleof the 18th century at the heightof the Qing Dynasty.He spent10 years writing his masterpieceA Dream of Red Mansions,but diedof illness and poverty before he wasable to complete