What’s the best translation of The Dream of the Red Chamber?
If you don’t want to read all 120 chapters, there’s a 60-chapter abridgement. And a kids’ version that’s only 64 pages (including the illustrations)!
If you don’t want to read all 120 chapters, there’s a 60-chapter abridgement. And a kids’ version that’s only 64 pages (including the illustrations)!
I’d bet far more people have heard of this influential Chinese classic than have read it.
This is a short, entertaining, accessible book on an interesting topic.
It’s as if Kafka decided to write a book with Carl Sagan, M.C. Escher, and the author of Flatland, and set it in China.
7. “There are too many [romanization methods], and most of them were designed either by committee or by linguists, or — even worse — by a committee of linguists.”