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Dreamy accolade for 'Red Mansions'

By Mei Jia ( China Daily ) Updated: 2014-05-13 08:00:01

AT A GLANCE

10 BEST ASIAN NOVELS OF ALL TIME

Dreamy accolade for 'Red Mansions'

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・ A Dream of Red Mansions

Cao Xueqin (1791)

With a cast of more than 400 characters, this episodic novel written in the vernacular rather than classical Chinese tells of two branches of an aristocratic family with a tragic love story at its humane heart.

 
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