四大名著的英文介绍.pptxVIP

中国四大名著英文简介 Chinese Literature - Novels and fiction Hongloumeng 红楼梦The Dream of the Red Chamber Also called The story of the Stone (Shitouji 石 头 记 ), this novel written by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (d. 1763) is said to be the greatest masterpiece of Chinese fiction. A wide branched scholarship does not consent about the main theme of this novel, should it be a novel of sentiment, of Daoist-Buddhist enlightenment, of social observation, of the decay of an aristocratic familiy, or even a veiled attack on Manchu rule. The frame of the novel is the contest of a Buddhist and a Daoist priest who ma