Dream of Red Mansions : Volume II

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ISBN: 9781589635326 | 1589635329
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2001

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A Dream of Red Mansions (Hung Lou Meng, sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber), the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more.

Pao-yu Sips Tea in Green Lattice Nunnery: Granny Liu Succumbs to Wine in Happy Red Court	p. 1
The Lady of the Alpinia Warns Against Dubious Tastes in Literature: The Queen of Bamboos' Quips Add to the General Enjoyment	p. 15
To Kill Time Money Is Raised to Celebrate a Birthday: Incense Is Burned on the Ground to Undying Love	p. 31
Hsi-feng, Taken by Surprise, Gives Way to Jealousy: Ping-erh, Unexpectedly Gratified, Makes Her Toilet	p. 45
Two Girls Pledge Friendship After a Heart-to-Heart Talk: A Plaintive Poem Is Written One Windy, Rainy Evening	p. 60
An Old Reprobate Makes an Unseemly Proposal: Yuan-yang Vows Never to Marry	p. 76
A Stupid Bully Is Beaten Up for His Amorous Advances: A Cool Young Gentleman Leaves Home for Fear of Reprisals	p. 93
A Rebuffed Reprobate Decides on a Journey: An Aspiring Maid Racks Her Brains to Write Poetry	p. 109
White Snow and Red Plum-Blossom Make the Garden Entrancing: Girls Enjoy Rustic Fare at a Venison Barbecue	p. 124
In Reed Snow Cottage Girls Vie in Composing a Collective Poem: In Warm Scented Arbour Fine Lantern Riddles Are Made	p. 140
Pao-chin Composes Poems Recalling the Past: An Incompetent Physician Prescribes Strong Medicine	p. 159
Tactful Ping-erh Conceals the Theft of Her Gold Bracelet: Plucky Ching-wen Mends a Peacock-Feather Cape in Bed	p. 176
Ancestral Sacrifice Is Carried Out on New Year's Eve in the Ning Mansion: An Evening Banquet Is Held on the Feast of Lanterns in the Jung Mansion	p. 193
The Lady Dowager Debunks Trite Stories: Hsi-feng Clowns to Amuse Her Elders	p. 212
A Stupid Concubine Insults Her Own Daughter in a Futile Squabble: A Spiteful Servant Imposes upon Her Young Mistress	p. 231
Clever Tan-chun Devises a Scheme to Make a Profit and End Abuses: Understanding Pao-chai Rounds It Out with a Small Act of Kindness	p. 248
Artful Tzu-chuan Tests Pao-yu's Feelings: Kindly Aunt Hsueh Comforts Tai-yu	p. 266
Under the Shade of an Apricot Tree an Actress Mourns Her Stage Lover: The Master of Happy Red Court Sympathizes with the Girl's Infatuation	p. 289
Ying-erh and Chun-yen Are Scolded by Willow Bank: And Red Rue Studio Sends for Reinforcements	p. 305
Jasmine Powder Is Substituted for Rose-Nitric Powder: Rose Flavoured Juice Is Repaid with Pachyma Cocos	p. 316
Pao-yu Covers Up a Girl's Theft to Protect His Sister: Ping-erh Wields Authority to Right a Wrong	p. 333
Sweet Hsiang-yun Sleeps Tipsily Among Peonies: Silly Hsiang-ling Coyly Takes Off Her Pomegranate Skirt	p. 348
Girls Feast at Night to Celebrate Pao-yu's Birthday: Chia Ching Dies of an Elixir and Madam Yu Manages the Funeral Single-Handed	p. 374
A Chaste Girl in Sad Seclusion Writes Poems on Five Beauties: An Amorous Libertine Drops His Nine-Dragon Pendant	p. 399
A Hen-Pecked Young Profligate Takes a Concubine in Secret: A Wanton Girl Mends Her Ways and Picks Herself a Husband	p. 421
A Girl in Love Is Rejected and Kills Herself: A Cold-Hearted Man Repents and Turns to Religion	p. 436
A Gift of Local Products Makes Tai-yu Homesick: Hsi-feng Questions a Page Boy and Hatches a Plot	p. 448
Unhappy Second Sister Yu Is Decoyed into Grand View Garden: Jealous Hsi-feng Makes a Scene in the Ning Mansion	p. 472
Crafty Hsi-feng Kills Her Rival by Proxy: And Second Sister Swallows Gold and Dies	p. 489
Tai-yu Starts Another Poetry Club--Peach-Blossom Society: Hsiang-yun Dashes Off a Poem on Willow Catkins	p. 506
Lady Hsing Feeling Wronged Puts Hsi-feng in the Wrong: Yuan-yang Happens upon Two Lovers	p. 520
Hsi-feng Puts up a Bold Front, Ashamed to Admit Her Illness: Lai Wang's Wife Relies on Her Mistress' Power to Force Through a Match for Her Son	p. 540
A Foolish Maid by Chance Picks up a Pornographic Pouch: A Timid Young Lady Ignores the Loss of Her Gold Phoenix Tiara	p. 556
Malicious Talk Makes Lady Wang Have a Search Made of the Garden: To Guard Her Integrity Hsi-chun Breaks with the Ning Mansion	p. 572
At a Feast One Night Portentous Sighing Is Heard: New Poems on the Moon Festival Are Taken as Good Omens	p. 594
By Convex Emerald Hall Fluting Fills an Old Lady with Grief: In Concave Crystal Lodge Girls Composing a Poem Lament Their Loneliness	p. 614
A Pretty Maid Wrongly Accused Dies an Untimely Death: Lovely Actresses Sever Worldly Ties and Join a Nunnery	p. 631
An Old Scholar at Leisure Has Eulogies Composed: His Unorthodox, Witless Son Laments the Hibiscus	p. 652
Hsueh Pan Marries a Fierce Lioness and Repents Too Late: Ying-chun Is Wrongly Wedded to an Ungrateful Wolf	p. 676
Lovely Hsiang-ling Is Unjustly Thrashed by Her Lecherous Husband: The Taoist Priest Wang Prescribes a Cure for a Shrew	p. 687
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