China is recapturing itself

CAO XUEQIN — THE DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER — BOOK ONE — TRANSLATED BY BENCRAFT JOLY — 1791–1968–1891–1973–1980

The whole book has five volumes, altogether several thousand pages. This is not the only novel of this type in Chinese literature. Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West (c. 1592) is another example. This book was only published in 1791…