Cao Xueqin

A Chinese author.

Dream of the Red Chamber

Translated by David Hawkes. Chia family contains Duke Ning-kuo and Duke Jung-kio. Chia Tai-hua has Chia Ching, who relinquishes his title to Chia Chen. Chia Chen has an affair with his son’s wife Chin Ko-Ching. Chia Pao is born with a piece of jade. They build Grand View Garden. Tai-yu starts spitting blood after her husband is set up to marry another woman. Pao-yu is shown the twelve beauties of Chinling. Phrase “Born in the wrong womb”. Opens with a couplet about truth becoming fiction.