Dream of the Red Chamber Author:Tsao Hsueh-Chin This is by common consent China's greatest novel. It describes the life of two households in Peking, belonging to the same family, in which five generations live together with their innumerable retainers, servants, relatives, and other hangers-on. One generation is the particular concern of the author: a group of sisters, half-sisters, and cou... more »sins, among whom is one boy, the hope of the house of Chia. Written in the eighteenth century. Translated and adapted from the Chinese by Chi-Chen Wang« less