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Comment dated September 1764 in the Nanking manuscript of The Story of the Stone discovered in 1927 (a copy of the original, made in 1754) next to the lines "Pages full of idle words / Penned with hot and bitter tears", as quoted by David Hawkes in The Story of the Stone: The Golden Days (Penguin, 1973), p. 35, and in The Story of the Stone: The Warning Voice (Penguin, 1980), p. 14; also quoted by Liu Zaifu in Reflections on "Dream of the Red Chamber", trans. Shu Yunzhong (Cambria Press, 2008), p. 197. (en) |
