.中国四大名著英文简介Chinese Literature - Novels and fictionHongloumeng 红楼梦The Dream of the Red ChamberAlso called The story of the Stone (Shitouji 石头记), this novel written by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (d. 1763) is said to be the greatest masterpiece of Chinese fiction. A wide branched scholarship does not consent about the main theme of this novel, should it be a novel of sentiment, of Daoist-Buddhist enlightenment, of social observation, of the decay of an aristocratic familiy, or even a veiled attac
