Bai Xianyong Explains in Detail the Dream of Red Mansions (part 2)

About This Novel

When the 80-year-old Bai Xianyong meets the 300-year-old Cao Xueqin, listen to how everyone in the Chinese world of novels interprets "The No. 1 Book in the World" and see the spiritual connection between the two eras of literary geniuses across time and space. This book is compiled from the lecture notes of Bai Xianyong's introductory general course (2014-2015) on "A Dream of Red Mansions" at National Taiwan University. "A Dream of Red Mansions" is a heavenly book with endless mysteries to explain and endless secrets to explore, but most importantly, it is a great novel after all. Bai Xianyong rectifies the source and introduces this literary classic as a novel, focusing on analyzing the "modernity" of the novel art of "A Dream of Red Mansions": mythological structure, character creation, text style, narrative techniques, use of point of view, dialogue skills, symbolic metaphors, parallel comparisons, and foreshadowing. He examines how Cao Xueqin maximizes the various elements that constitute the novel, far beyond its era, and even earlier and more avant-garde than Western modernist literature. With the artistic sensitivity of a novelist, he wiped away the dust of the classics, and restored the characters that had been neglected and misunderstood to their original personalities one by one, allowing them to bloom on the stage. In the process of reading and contemplating the art of words, it interprets the wonderful true meaning of Chinese philosophy of life and the cultural code of human society. It also extends from a great novel to talk about literature, aesthetics, philosophy, and the branches and branches of Kunqu Opera, constructing a dreamlike red mansion. Bai Xianyong took this opportunity to read carefully, carefully compared the differences between the "Gengchen version" and the "Cheng Yi version", weighed the weight and subtle meaning of every word, and was able to rediscover the long-lost beauty of the "Cheng Yi version" and "Dream of Red Mansions".

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