num_pages: 470
description: VOLUME II of This translation was suggested not by any pretensions to range myself among the ranks of the body of sinologues, but by the perplexities and difficulties experienced by me as a student in Peking, when, at the completion of the Tzu Erh Chi, I had to plunge in the maze of the Hung Lou Meng. Shortcomings are, I feel sure, to be discovered, both in the prose, as well as among the doggerel and uncouth rhymes, in which the text has been more adhered to than rhythm; but I shall feel satisfied with the result, if I succeed, even in the least degree, in affording a helping hand to present and future students of the Chinese language. --H. BENCRAFT JOLY, H.B.M. Vice-Consulate, Macao, 1st September, 1891.
language: English
title: Hung Lou Meng Or, The Dream Of the Red Chamber
titlecomplete: Hung Lou Meng Or, The Dream Of the Red Chamber
characters: Baochai, Baoyu, Pao Yu, Daiyu
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, China, Literature, Romance, Classics, Asian Literature, Historical Fiction, Chinese Literature
ratings_count: 5158
series: The Story of the Stone
awards: awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“
category: Преводна художествена литература
publisher: Wildside Pr