The dream of the red chamber =
Subtitle: Hung lou meng: a Chinese novel of the early Ching period
By: [English translation by Florence and Isabel McHu
Series: CCE
Publisher: s. n.
Published: 1900
Place of publication: S.l.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii
authors: Franz Kuhn; title: The Chia Family
pagenum: xvii; title: Principal Waiting Maids
pagenum: xix; title: Translators' Note
pagenum: xxi; label: Chapter 1
title: Shih Ying Is Carried Away in a Dream and Receives a Revelation. Amidst the Toil and Welter of Daily Life Yu Tsun Finds the Maiden of His Heart.
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: In Yangchow a High-born Lady Joins the Company of the Blessed. In the Tavern Yu Tsun Learns More About His Noble Relatives.
pagenum: 13; label: Chapter 3
title: Mr. Ling Gives His Guest from the West an Introduction to the Yungkuo Palace. The Princess Ancestress Takes a Motherless Child Lovingly into Her Home.
pagenum: 20; label: Chapter 4
title: An Unfortunate Girl Finds an Unfortunate Suitor. A Little Bonze from the Temple of the Gourd Acts as Judge.
pagenum: 34; label: Chapter 5
title: The Spirit of Pao Yu Wanders About in the Phantom Realm of the Great Void. The Fairy of Fearful Awakening Vainly Interprets for Him in Songs the Dream of the Red Chamber.
pagenum: 43; label: Chapter 6
title: Pao Yu Tries for the First Time the "Play of Cloud and Rain." In the Ningkuo Palace He Becomes Acquainted with His Nephew Chin Chung.
pagenum: 52; label: Chapter 7
title: Pao Yu Is Shown the Gold Amulet of His Girl Cousin. The Girl Cousin Is Shown Pao Yu's Stone.
pagenum: 58; label: Chapter 8
title: Chia Cheng Reprimands His Delinquent Offspring. Ill-behaved Boys Create a Disturbance in the School.
pagenum: 65; label: Chapter 9
title: The Prince Hermit's Birthday Is Celebrated in the Ningkuo Palace. The Sight of Phoenix Awakens Carnal Desires in the Heart of Chia Jui.
pagenum: 74; label: Chapter 10
title: Phoenix Maliciously Incites an Unrequited Passion. In Spite of Warnings, Chia Jui Looks into the Forbidden Side of the Wind and Moon Mirror.
pagenum: 84; label: Chapter 11
title: Ko Ching Dies and Receives the Posthumous Title of Wife of a Mandarin of the Fifth Rank. Phoenix Takes Over the Household Management in the Ningkuo Palace.
pagenum: 93; label: Chapter 12
title: Pao Yu Meets the Prince of the Northern Quietness on the Road. Chin Chung Enjoys Himself in the Nunnery.
pagenum: 101; label: Chapter 13
title: Beginning of Spring Is Exalted by Imperial Favor and Chosen to Be Mistress of the Phoenix Palace. Chin Chung Sets Out Prematurely on His Journey to the Yellow Springs.
pagenum: 114; label: Chapter 14
title: Pao Yu Reveals His Talent in the Park of Delightful Vision. Black Jade Is Annoyed by the Bite of a Fly.
pagenum: 123; label: Chapter 15
title: On the Day of the Lantern Festival the Imperial Consort Pays Her Family a Visit.
pagenum: 134; label: Chapter 16
title: One Night the Maid Pearl Tests Pao Yu's Feelings and Stipulates Her Conditions. Black Jade Makes Fun of Cousin Little Cloud.
pagenum: 144; label: Chapter 17
title: The Maid Pearl Sulks and Takes Pao Yu Quietly to Task. The Maid Little Ping Keeps Silence and Saves Chia Lien from Being Discovered.
pagenum: 154; label: Chapter 18
title: Pao Yu Falls Out with Two of His Cousins at the Same Time. Two Lovers Tease One Another with Quotations from "The Play of the Western Pavilion."
pagenum: 166; label: Chapter 19
title: Ni the Usurer Proves Impulsively Generous When Drunk. A Lovelorn Maid Gets Queer Ideas About a Lost Handkerchief.
pagenum: 177; label: Chapter 20
title: A Sorcerer Bewitches the Cousins. The Marvellous Power of the Magic Stone Brings About Their Recovery.
pagenum: 188; label: Chapter 21
title: On the Wasp Waist Bridge a Lovelorn Maid Expresses Her Feelings in Commonplace Words. The "Courtesan Yang" Startles Two Butterflies in the Pavilion of the Kingfisher-Blue Drops.
pagenum: 200; label: Chapter 22
title: The Better Off One Is, the More One Troubles About One's Welfare. The More a Woman Is Cherished and Loved, the More Love Does She Demand.
pagenum: 214; label: Chapter 23
title: A Lost Unicorn Amulet Causes Little Cloud to Expose Her Bare Leg to the Fierce Sun. Gold Ring Cannot Get Over the Insult She Suffers and Seeks the Death of Honor.
pagenum: 228; label: Chapter 24
title: The Degenerate Offspring Experiences the Pain of a Paternal Flogging.
pagenum: 238; label: Chapter 25
title: The Begonia Club Meets in the Hermitage of Clear Autumn Weather. The Princess Ancestress Entertains the Godmother from the Country in the Park of Delightful Vision.
pagenum: 245; label: Chapter 26
title: Pao Yu Sets Out to Burn Incense in the Dust of the Highway in Memory of a Dear Departed. On the Day of the Thousand Autumns Phoenix Unexpectedly Turns into a Vinegar Barrel.
pagenum: 264; label: Chapter 27
title: The Windy and Rainy Mood of a Gloomy Autumn Evening Inspires Black Jade with an Elegy on the Wind and the Rain. The Maid Mandarin Duck Renounces the Bliss of a Mandarin Duck Union.
pagenum: 274; label: Chapter 28
title: The Mad Robber Count Has Improper Designs and Experiences a Flogging. The Cold Knight Sets Off on a Journey to Avoid Trouble.
pagenum: 294; label: Chapter 29
title: The Libertine, Shamed and Disgraced, Seeks Distraction in a Business Expedition. A Superior Girl Practices the Art of Poetry, Studying the Best Masters.
pagenum: 302; label: Chapter 30
title: A Quack Doctor Treats Bright Cloud with "Tiger and Wolf Medicines." Despite Being Ill, Bright Cloud Heroically Sacrifices Herself for Pao Yu and Mends His Peacock-Plume Cloak.
pagenum: 311; label: Chapter 31
title: The Waiting Maid Cuckoo Slyly Tests Pao Yu's Feelings and Upsets His Mental Balance by Hinting at a Parting. A Kindly Aunt Pacifies a Lovelorn Maiden with Gentle Words.
pagenum: 326; label: Chapter 32
title: Chia Lien Secretly Takes the Second Miss Yu to Wife. The Third Miss Yu Aspires to the Hand of the Cold Knight.
pagenum: 342; label: Chapter 33
title: A Fiery Maiden, Ashamed of Her Unrequited Passion, Takes Her Life. The Cold Knight Strides with a Cold Heart Through the Gateway of the Great Void.
pagenum: 356; label: Chapter 34
title: Phoenix Cross-Examines the Servant and So Finds Out the Master's Deceits. The Unhappy Yu Girl Allows Herself to Be Lured into a Trap.
pagenum: 366; label: Chapter 35
title: Phoenix, with Cunning and Malice, Plays the Young Rival Off Against the Older One. Driven to Desperation, the Second Yu Kills Herself by Swallowing Gold.
pagenum: 382; label: Chapter 36
title: The Bag with the Springlike Embroidery Becomes a Traitor in the Hands of a Simple Girl. The Girls in the Park of Delightful Vision Fall into Discredit and Have to Suffer the Torture of a House Search.
pagenum: 393; label: Chapter 37
title: A Sinister Occurrence at the Nocturnal Banquet Awakens Dark Forebodings. At the Mid-Autumn Festival a New Stanza Awakens Happy Promises for the Future.
pagenum: 411; label: Chapter 38
title: The Charming Maid Cannot Get Over the Wrong Done Her, and Dies in the Flower of Her Youth. The Unhappy Scion of Princes Dedicates a Funeral Hymn to the Dead Maid.
pagenum: 422; label: Chapter 39
title: The Plaster Priest Makes Game of Pao Yu and Invents a Remedy for Jealousy. Four Beauties Question Fate with the Fishing Rod.
pagenum: 431; label: Chapter 40
title: An Evil Dream Frightens an Unhappy Lovesick Maiden in the Bamboo Hermitage. Beginning of Spring is Visited by Her Relatives on Her Sickbed in the Imperial Palace.
pagenum: 441; label: Chapter 41
title: The Beautiful Saint Is Caught Up in the Fire of Sin as She Sits on Her Prayer Cushion, and Is Carried Away into Ecstasy by Demoniacal Forces. Black Jade is frightened by the shadow of the snake in the beaker, and rejects all nourishment with sublime resolution.
pagenum: 452; label: Chapter 42
title: The Ancestress Puts a Reverse Interpretation Upon the Evil Omen of the Begonia Blossoming in Winter and Tries to Drown Anxious Doubts in the Joyous Tumult of a Banquet. Pao Yu Loses the Spirit Stone and Forfeits His Reason as a Consequence.
pagenum: 463; label: Chapter 43
title: Black Jade Consigns Her Poetical Works to the Flames and Finally Renounces Her Unhappy Love. Precious Clasp Crosses the Threshold of Her Maidenly Bower for the Last Time, and Goes Through the Great Ceremony of Her Life.
pagenum: 480; label: Chapter 44
title: The Plant Purple Pearl Returns to the Sphere of Banished Suffering. The Spirit Stone Drenches with Tears the Place of Dear Memories.
pagenum: 500; label: Chapter 45
title: Taste of Spring Marries Far from Home, and Pao Yu Weeps Bitter Tears After Her. Ghosts Disport Themselves at Night in the Deserted Park.
pagenum: 507; label: Chapter 46
title: Yu Tsun Recognizes in the Mysterious Hermit His Old Friend and Benefactor. The Moneylender Ni, Known as the Drunken Diamond, Becomes the Pike in the Carp Pond.
pagenum: 516; label: Chapter 47
title: The Unhappy Lover, Pao Yu, Stirs Up Past Feelings. The Bailiffs of the Minister of Finance Take Possession of the Western Palace.
pagenum: 529; label: Chapter 48
title: The Princess Ancestress, Prostrate Before Heaven, Nobly Takes Upon Her Own Head the Guilt of the Whole Clan, and Generously Distributes Her Treasures. The Imperial Grace Is Showered Upon Chia Cheng, and the Princely Title, Restored Once More, Is Passed on to Him.
pagenum: 541; label: Chapter 49
title: Robbers Loot the Property Left by the Ancestress and Abduct the Beautiful Anchoress. Pao Yu Gets Back His Stone and Is Awakened.
pagenum: 550; label: Chapter 50
title: Pao Yu Passes the Examination with Honors and Renounces the Red Dust of the World. Shih Ying and Yu Tsun Meet Once More and Conclude the Story of the Stone.
pagenum: 569