TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cao,Xueqin
AU  - Joly,H.Bencraft
TI  - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II
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 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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9604
ER  -