Chinese and Foreign Studies of A Dream of Red Mansions

摘要

CAO XUEQIN,one of thegreatest novelists in China’shistory,lived in the middleof the 18th century at the heightof the Qing Dynasty.He spent10 years writing his masterpieceA Dream of Red Mansions,but diedof illness and poverty before he wasable to complete the final version ofthe manuscriptsAfter his deachthe manuscripts werecopied and spread ar-ound the country.They arrived ratherlate in other coun-tries because of the