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Cao stammt aus einer ursprünglich han-chinesischen, aber an die mandschurische Kultur assimilierten Familie. Cao Xueqins Großvater Cao Yin galt als Weggefährte und Vertrauter des Qing-Kaisers Kangxi, wodurch es die Familie zu großem Wohlstand brachte. Das Glück der Caos wendete sich erst mit dem Amtsantritt von Kangxis Nachfolger Yongzheng, der 1728 im Zuge politischer Säuberungen die Güter der Caos konfiszierte und sie zum Umzug nach Peking zwang. Xueqin war damals erst 9 Jahre alt.
Über Xueqins eigenes Leben ist vergleichsweise wenig bekannt. Den größten Teil seines Lebens verbrachte er in großer Armut im Westen von Peking, wo er sich mit dem Verkauf eigener Bilder über Wasser hielt. Daneben arbeitete er zeitweise als Lehrer an einer kaiserlichen Schule für die Kinder mandschurischer Adeliger und Bannerleute.
Cao ist durch ein einziges Werk bekannt geworden, das allerdings Eingang in die Weltliteratur gefunden hat: Der Roman Der Traum der roten Kammer. Nach Aussagen von Freunden hat er über zehn Jahre daran geschrieben, vermutlich in der Zeit kurz vor der Jahrhundertmitte. Bei Caos Tod 1763 waren ledig
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A Dream of Red Mansions focuses on the love between Baoyu, an unusual child in his early teens who is temperamental and spends most of his time with the girls in the family mansion and Daiyu, a delicate, sensitive and yet witty and extremely clever girl. The two grow up as children and live in the same mansion but the family does not hurry to marry them off as they have other plans for Baoyu.
This is the main thread that runs through the novel's amazing 120 chapters. The other sublots are very numerous - there are hundreds - but none of them are sustained for the whole book. The main part of the book is the set of characters. Again there are hundreds but a few main ones which become the most interesting in this drama. There's the conniving Xifeng, Baoyu's strict father, Baoyu's assertive "other love" Baochai and the like.
Unlike Anna Karenina, this book is full of humour, jokes and poems (which was where I think the translation failed the most as Chinese poetry rendered into English seems to lose the plot!). It contains moments of great sadness but also wit and quirkiness.
There's been controversy with the amazon reviews of this particular translation. I don't speak Chinese so can't judge it but reading the text, it seemed fine. I guess if I saw another or the original it would change my mind but this one isn't too bad.
The novel deals with so many topics that you really get an overview of what life in 18th century upper class urban China was about. It is VERY long but it's amazing how in relating heaps and heaps of seemingly trivial incidents you grow to love many of the characters. It's like most novels are like meeting someone and hence only seeing what they want to show while this novel is like living with them. And trivialities aside, it's very moving.
A must for all interested in Chinese society or who don't mind persevering through 1200 pages to read a one of the world's unusual and amazing dynasty chronicles and love stories.
Unlike David Hawkes and John Minford's masterful translation, which can stand on its own as a work of literature, this edition reads like...well, like a translation. The prose is flat, the puns of the original are translated literally, rather than being approximated as in the Hawkes-Minford version, and on the whole, the flavour of the original Chinese text is missing.
A person trying to read the original Chinese text of "A Dream of Red Mansions" might find this translation useful to keep at hand for a side-by-side comparison; it reads like a translator's crib. The Yangs of this edition take fewer liberties with jokes, puns, and poems than do Hawkes and Minford. (I should stress that when Hawkes and Minford deviate from the original text, it is only in minor and inconsequential ways, and is always in service of the text.) The Yangs failed to realise, apparently, that being faithful to the precise words of a book isn't necessarily the same as being faithful to the spirit, and their translation is no fun at all to read.
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