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  • This was her first introduction to the old Chinese novels—The White Snake, The Dream of the Red Chamber, All Men Are Brothers— that she would draw on long afterward for the narrative grip, strong plot lines, and stylized characterizations of her own fiction.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • She said that the greatest novels— The Dream of the Red Chamber, The Romance of Three Kingdoms, and All Men Are Brothers— contained the imaginative development of a whole people, constantly renewed and kept alive by passing “not so often from hand to hand as from mouth to mouth” through storytellers.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • This fragmentation extends to books within the novel, like the Dream of the Red Chamber, or the mangled works that the Monster reads to Mary.

    The Little Professor: 2010

  • This fragmentation extends to books within the novel, like the Dream of the Red Chamber, or the mangled works that the Monster reads to Mary.

    A Monster's Notes 2010

  • This was her first introduction to the old Chinese novels—The White Snake, The Dream of the Red Chamber, All Men Are Brothers— that she would draw on long afterward for the narrative grip, strong plot lines, and stylized characterizations of her own fiction.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • She said that the greatest novels— The Dream of the Red Chamber, The Romance of Three Kingdoms, and All Men Are Brothers— contained the imaginative development of a whole people, constantly renewed and kept alive by passing “not so often from hand to hand as from mouth to mouth” through storytellers.

    PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has railed against the Senate and championed a plan to make it an elected body, is about to appoint some of his closest Conservative insiders to the Red Chamber, as well as former NHL coach Jacques Demers.

    Lies my prime minister told me. CC 2009

  • Can't wait until they take on The Dream of the Red Chamber!

    languagehat.com: THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSLATIONS. 2005

  • In the back of my head of been thinking about the I Ching ever since I had a class on the classic 18th century Chinese novel, The Dream of the Red Chamber.

    At my graduation party Galadriel | Letter Never Sent 2001

  • It was an entire course because The Dream of the Red Chamber is five volumes long.

    At my graduation party Galadriel | Letter Never Sent 2001

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