TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cao,Xueqin
AU  - Joly,H.Bencraft
TI  - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I
AV  - PL 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Fiction
KW  - Cao, Xueqin, approximately 1717-1763 -- Fiction
KW  - Jia, Baoyu (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber; Release date is 2006-01-01; Produced by Juliet Sutherland and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I" by Cao Xueqin is an 18th-century novel written in the 1740s. This masterpiece chronicles the rise and decline of an aristocratic Chinese family during the Qing dynasty. While depicting patriarchal power and social relations, Cao crafted the work as a memorial to the women of his youth. The novel explores profound religious and philosophical questions through intricate plotting and poetic language, offering intimate observations of 18th-century Chinese worldview, aesthetics, and lifestyles. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9603
ER  -