Bai Xianyong's "white and Red" Dream of Red Mansions Series

About This Novel

"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. "A Dream of Red Mansions" was compiled to address these two major issues. It brings together some articles by Chinese scholars, experts, and writers from all over the world since Hu Shi's return, who have expressed their opinions on the authorship of the last forty chapters of "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the differences between the "Cheng Gao version" and the "Zhi version". The first volume of this elegant collection of Red Mansions, "Celebrities Say Red Mansions", is a summary of two major topics discussed in articles by famous writers (including Wang Guowei, Chen Yinke, Lin Yutang, Yu Pingbo, Xia Zhiqing, etc.); The second volume, "Celebrities Comment on Red Mansions", is a complete set of important articles by scholars and writers at all stages of Red Studies research (including Hu Shi, Gao Yang, Zhou Cezong, etc.) , As well as Yang Jiang, Wang Meng, Bai Xianyong, etc.); The third volume especially includes the "Comparative Notes between the Gengchen Edition and the Cheng Yi Edition" that Pai Xianyong taught at National Taiwan University in recent years, a total of more than 170 items, as well as the Shanghai Forum Records of the "Dream of Red Mansions" Centenary Issues: Cheng Gao's Edition and the Last Forty Chapters, written by today's Red Scholars.

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