紅樓夢
Dream of the Red Chamber
Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 · c. 1715–c. 1763
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The rise and slow decline of a great Qing household, seen through a sensitive young heir and the young women of its garden. Hundreds of characters are drawn with such exact speech and feeling that the book became the standard against which all Chinese fiction is measured. Cao Xueqin left it unfinished; the last forty chapters of the 1791 printing are generally thought to be by another hand.