WANG, Chi-Chien (trans.).

£700 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Dream of the Red Chamber. First edition, first printing, of this popular translation and the first to introduce this famous Chinese novel to a popular English-speaking audience. The author worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and later as professor of Chinese at Columbia.

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