Xiangling ( 香菱; Xiāng Líng; 'Fragrant Water caltrop'; Hawkes/Minford translation: Caltrop) – the Xues' maid, born Zhen Yinglian ( 甄英蓮, a homophone with "deserving pity"), the kidnapped and lost daughter of Zhen Shiyin ( 甄士隱, a homophone with "Hiding the truth"), the country gentleman in Chapter 1. Schnitzler’s work wasn’t rediscovered until the 1950s and 1960s, with film versions of La Ronde by Max Ophüls and Roger Vadim, and again in the late 1990s, when Nicole Kidman starred in back-to-back productions of two adaptation of his works: David Hare’s play The Blue Room, a contemporary reworking of La Ronde; and Stanley Kubrick’s film Eyes Wide Shut, based on Dream Story, and co-starring her then-husband Tom Cruise.

Dream of the Red Chamber (Wang Chi-Chen), (New York: Doubleday; London: Routledge, 1929) enlarged version (New York: Twayne: 1958 ISBN 0-385-09379-9).Modern (post-1949) continuations tend to follow after the eightieth chapter, and include those by Zhang Zhi, [75] Zhou Yuqing, [76] Hu Nan [77] and Liu Xinwu.

S0305741000035517; Merle Goldman, Literary Dissent in Communist China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967).She is asked to accompany the veiled bride Baochai to trick Baoyu into believing that he is marrying Daiyu. Schnitzler was a minor celebrity in early 20th-century Vienna, a playwright and novelist whose sexually infused narratives seemed a perfect fit for a languid, sophisticated and decadent former empire teetering between two world wars. It is still debated whether Gao and Cheng composed these chapters themselves and the extent to which they did or did not represent Cao's intentions.

Undeniably the most worldly woman in the novel, Xifeng is in charge of the daily running of the Rongguo household and wields economic as well as political power within the family. Gladys Yang and Yang Hsien-yi prefer literal translation, informing readers of names' meanings through annotations. The novel proper starts in Chapter 3 with Daiyu's arrival at the Rongguo House shortly after the death of her mother. Not particularly well educated, he once killed a man over a servant-girl (Xiangling) and had the manslaughter case hushed up with money.He goes to a coffee house where he meets Nachtigall, his former classmate from medical school who is now a musician. A reworked version was performed in 1982 in Beijing by China Opera and Dance Drama Theatre featuring lead dancer Chen Ailian. Rouge" versions [ edit ] A page from the "Jimao manuscript" (one of the Rouge versions) of the novel, 1759.

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