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The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises—satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling—against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.
In the year 622, the Tang Dynasty was five years old. The Tang Dynasty was ruled by Li Yuan, and the Tang Dynasty, which would soon shake the world, had just been established. Xue Lang, a modern youth who had crossed over to this time in the Tang Dynasty, had a huge problem with his survival! From being alone to living in peace and pleasure, this is a man's inspiration history.
The personal assistant, the decathlon, was easy to handle, but shy in front of her: I, I'm your little fan. The haughty queen, a famous model in the industry, cold as ice and frost, yet she chose to eat the soft side rather than the hard side! The assistant poked her in the back and made a fool of herself, swearing to get the queen in her hands. Easily humorous, a different kind of warm love!
"School life rushes the competition in the market, and interests and feelings are the masterminds of this feeling." They were the younger generation of the modern era, full of vigor and youth. However, in the end, they still had to face reality."This is the society of today. Everyone is a common man, and no one can avoid the vulgarity."
This is rated one of the greatest works of Chinese literature. Metaphysical, allegorical, and vividly realistic, the immense scope of The Story of the Stone provides something for everyone. A rich family saga, a tragic love story, and a philosophical meditation it is one of those rare huge books in which one can lose oneself completely. It begins as the story of the Stone, a supernatural entity endowed with consciousness that winds up in the mortal world and must find the path to enlightenment. His fate is inextricably bound with another creature from the Land of Illusion, the Crimson Pearl Flower. The Stone is responsible for its transformation into a fairy girl -- and she vows to repay him with "a debt of tears", willing to suffer for a lifetime in the world of mere mortals. The Stone describes how his story -- The Story of the Stone -- is the record of his journey to enlightenment, and offers the tale as a tool for others to follow his path, as, for example Vanitas does in the first chapter. --www.complete-review.com.
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Famous Chinese classic reflects many traditional themes of Chinese folklore, including the commom peoples' struggle against oppression.
The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, The Story of the Stone charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family. This novel re-creates the ritualized hurly-burly of Chinese family life that would otherwise be lost and infuses it with affirming Buddhist belief. --from publisher description.