01923cam a22003733u 45000010005000000030007000050050017000120060002000290070005000310080041000360400011000770410017000880500007001051000029001122400027001412450078001682640051002463000047002973360026003443370026003703380036003965000091004325000031005235080081005545200583006355340045012186530029012636530021012926530059013136530052013726530049014247000034014738560042015079604UtSlPG20260610133234.0mcr n260607r2006||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPL1 aCao, Xueqin,d1717?-176310aHong lou meng. English10aHung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2006  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber  aRelease date is 2006-01-01  aProduced by Juliet Sutherland and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders  a"Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II" by Cao Xueqin is an 18th-century novel written in the 1740s until his death in 1763 or 1764. This masterwork chronicles the rise and decline of an aristocratic family in Qing dynasty China, exploring the lives of women the author knew in his youth. The novel delves into social relations, philosophical questions, and psychological depths while depicting a world of refined aesthetics and complex family dynamics that mirror the fate of the dynasty itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aAutobiographical fiction  aDomestic fiction  aChina -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Fiction  aCao, Xueqin, approximately 1717-1763 -- Fiction  aJia, Baoyu (Fictitious character) -- Fiction1 aJoly, H. Bencraft,d1857-189840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9604