This a popular book about Chinese classic work Dream of the Red Mansion, probing into the mystery of Qin Keqing and offering some ground-breaking and inspiring notions on this character.Many of the authors points are quite shocking. For the first time, the author proposes the idea that “”Good Thing”” suggests the fall of Jia family. Moreover, the author also holds the views that Qin has had affairs with her brother-in-law in the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion, that Jia Zhen, her father in law, has raped her and killed the royal doctor,that Qins funeral has been delayed for over eight months,and that the peasants of Guangdong Tiewang Mountain has staged an uprising against the Jias. According to the author, Qin is the most beautiful and the most immoral woman in the novel and the best dancer and politician as well. She is at the same time evil,fairy and humane. What is more, the author argues that the so-called Zhiyanzhais ancient text of The Deam of the Red Mansions was forged by the followers of Hu Shi. Abandoning the rigid traditional ideas and adopting Lu Xuns methods of literature appreciation, the author successfully finds new ways to interpret the novel and to decode the mysteries in the novel.
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