#Cao Xueqin

[maggiecheungs]

Illustrations by Tai Tun-Pang from the FLP edition of Dream of the Red Chamber

#dream of the red chamber #hongloumeng #hong lou meng #story of the stone #dream of red mansions #chinese literature #chinese art #books #Tai Tun-Pang #cao xueqin #ellis reads #i found another edition of hongloumeng in a charity shop yesterday but then jo reminded me that i'm poor :/ #and also it was a translation that i already own in physical format (see above pictures) #but if it's still there when i go back i'm going to get it #bc it's a 4-vol massmarket paperback version & thus much easier to read/carry around than the hardback edition of the yang trans that i own #and i've been feeling the urge to reread it lately <3333

[hayleylovesjessica]

I was up to 3 am watching various nonsense on YouTube, and one of my cats, Potato, wouldn't let me sleep in! 😭 As a result, I'm starting the day with two Ibuprofen to deal with the headache I have. On the bright side, a couple books I ordered yesterday evening on Amazon, volumes 3 and 4 of Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone (a.k.a. The Dream of the Red Chamber), arrived over night. I have no idea when I'll read this text. The whole thing, which I ordered, runs to 5 thick volumes, but I wanted the Penguin Classics (PC) editions before PC changed the cover design from the elegant 2003 template to that god-awful 2019 template. I hate when I have a series of books but one or two don't match. PC did that with the last of its Ibsen translations, Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, and it drives me crazy. (It doesn't help that the translations are deeply flawed.) I just know that at some point, I'll re-purchase the other three PC Ibsen books just so they match on my shelves.

#sleep deprivation #cats #Potato #bad kitteh! #Ibuprofen #books #Penguin Classics #design #The Story of the Stone #The Dream of the Red Chamber #Cao Xueqin #Henrik Ibsen #annoyance

[globalqueertexts]

"Dream of the Red Chamber", ending poem

When grief for fiction’s idle words

More real than human life appears,

Reflect that life itself is a dream

And do not mock the reader’s tears.

Cao Xueqin, Nanjing, China - 1700s (English translation by David Hawkes, 1980)

#dream of the red chamber #chinese literature #1700s literature #cao xueqin #quote

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Story of the Stone (Volume III) | Author: Cao Xueqin | Publisher: Penguin (1981)

#books #The Story of the Stone #Cao Xueqin

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

26 for the ask game?

(Answering here. I think this one goes without saying)

26. How did your first kiss go?

Good, tbh.

I'm a shy but not really "ditzy" kind of person, so things like kissing always strike me as a challenge (even as they're not in fact a challenge for everyone). My first kiss, as I said, went well, and I found myself having a very strong "sense of place" there -- it was very, very specific, felt like I had seen it in a movie, etc. I was also quite impressed with myself for successfully not laughing out loud, which I did not really anticipate doing.

I was really surprised afterwards (after it had been confirmed by friends and was no longer my secret) that other people hadn't found this strange or unusual, given my interest in ~mysterious~ sexual things (e.g. sex and kink are not topics I'm generally comfortable mentioning, and when I was a teen I got a reputation for doing so).

#cao xueqin #mothocean

[reinaka42]

Hey why doesn't he get a song

#1 we need more Qing song bc the last one's a banger #2 look at the aegyo #wcfhl #cao xueqin

[sgiandubh]

Today's apocryphal Sun Tzu quote

The more biased you are, the less interested in the big picture.

Sun Wen - Vignette from the illustration series of The Dream of the Red Chamber novel, 19th c. AD

A short note: Cao Xueqin's The Dream of the Red Chamber is probably my favorite Chinese novel. It opens with a very wise couplet, that could have been written for this fandom:

假作真時真亦假， 無為有處有還無。

Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true; Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.

And it is doubled by another couplet:

假去真來真勝假， 無原有是有非無。

When Fiction departs and Truth appears, Truth prevails; Though Not-real was once Real, the Real is never unreal.

And because History is often poetically ironic, the novel was written starting around 1745. I am dead serious.

#sun tzu #fandom #shitshow

[pmryuu]

Limbus Company Books along with the known Association in the City

날개 - 이상

( The Wings - Yi Sang ) - Korea

Hana Association - Hana = 1 in Korean

Goethe's Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Germany

Zwei Association - Zwei = 2 in German

El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes - Spain

Tres Association - Tres = 3 in Spanish

地獄変- 芥川 龍之介 ( Jigokuhen/Hell's Screen by Akutagawa Ryuunosuke ) - Japan

Shi Association - Shi = 4 in Japanese

L'Étranger - Albert Camus ( The Stranger ) - France

Cinq Association - Cinq = 5 in French

紅樓夢 - 曹雪芹 ( Honglou Meng/Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin ) - Qing China

Liu Association - Liu = 6 in Mandarin Chinese

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - British

Seven Association - Seven = 7 in English

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville - American

Преступление и наказание - Fyodor Dostoevsky ( Crimes and Punishment ) - Russia

Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend by Hermann Hesse - German-Swiss

Öufi Association - Öufi = 11 in Swiss German

Ὀδύσσεια - Οὖτις ( Odyssey ) - Greek

Die Verwandlung by Franz Kafka - Austria-Hungary (now is the Czech Republic)

[rjshope]

9 people i'd like to get to know better! ~ a tag meme ~

I was tagged by @hvseoks and @wildflowersepiphny thank you🌷

Last song: Honor For All by Daniel Licht and Jon Licht

Favorite color: Black, red & white sometimes

Currently watching: Nothing, i just finished Masters of the Air so i can't decide whether to rewatch Band of Brothers (bc i couldn't stop comparing these two shows) or to watch something new

Currently reading: Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

Spicy/ sweet/ savoury: Spicy and savoury

Relationship status: single

Current Obsession: Something i do irl to improve my life's quality. Happy to see that my efforts are bearing fruit, that's the most important thing to me.

Tagging: @raplinenthusiasts @cordiallyfuturedwight @outroindigo @gatotsu @yooboobies

@kimtaegis @kimseokjinn @jkvjimin @magicshop (no pressure ofc <3)

#tag game

[ratlesshonret]

Reading List for Limbus(There's A LOT of books referenced, so I'm just going for what I believe are the main ones, I've been eventually planning to make a full list for myself so it can include stuff like Orlando Furioso from Ruina):

The Divine Comedy

The Wings + Whatever you can find of Crow's Eye View - Yi Sang

Faust - Goethe

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Hell Screen - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

This one is the shortest out of all the stories, and the one I'd recommend the most due to how much it has changed mine and other people's views on the character based on it. I'd also recommend looking into other works by the author.

The Stranger - Albert Camus

Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin

This one is 2,500 pages in English(For reference, I went through my books to try and equal that with as little books as possible- That's approximately equal to The Lord of the Rings[minus the Hobbit] by J.R.R Tolkien, unabridged Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, and the entirety of Narnia by C.S. Lewis). Only read it if you want to.

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

This one is particularly intense in that Heathcliff is a terrible awful person. You will not like him, from what I understand of the book.

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I've heard people recommend skipping this one as well due to how tiresome the prose can be. That's your choice, however.

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth - Hermann Hesse

The Odyssey - Homer

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This one is a children's book and isn't particularly important at first, however reading it will give some fun context to later parts. It's also referenced in Lobotomy Corporation!

holy shit thanks! i am definitely going to put all of these on my reading list. hopefully they'll all fill the void now that i've run out of fun fanfiction to read.

#limbus company

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

So one day I was reading your meta and a post about the Black family in Harry Potter. At the end of the post, you mentioned "Every time someone writes a Regency style fic starring the Black family I just laugh. I laugh so hard."

Then a weird idea came to my mind: So I am not sure whether Muffin has heard of "Dream of the Red Chamber" by Cao Xueqin. Basically, one of the main subplots is about the Jia family and co. and how the Jia family's power, legacy and wealth all turned into shit because they fucked up. I feel like this is the kind of story the Black family would end up with if fanfic writers have read "Dream of the Red Chamber." I might get a "write-your-fic" gif but what I am saying here is--I just want to compare the whole vibe of the Black family to other literature work and share with Muffin. (This ask also came from a dude who is not that familiar with Western culture so I have no idea what is a Regency style despite looking up)

I have never heard of it but that sounds like a beautiful story.

Alas, Regency is... @therealvinelle has more feelings than I do but basically think Downton Abbey, Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights, etc.

It's a particular style of period piece that tend to have particular plots.

#harry potter #harry potter meta #harry potter headcanon #dream of the red chamber #meta #opinion

[maggiecheungs]

dream of the read chamber as memes (part 1)

#dream of the red chamber #story of the stone #meme of the red chamber #hong lou meng #红楼梦 #chinese literature #books #cao xueqin #ellis reads

[wodkapudding]

nine people you want to know better tag game

tagged by @wastemanjohn - merci!

Last Song: olivia o'brien - josslyn (because it's jealousy hours)

Favorite Color: berry colours and gold!

Last Movie/TV Show: fargo s4 (got pulled into it by the dapper skinny italian hitman, stayed for ethelrida)

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: savoury, but spicy is a close second but like it depends on the flavour? (i think, it's sichuan peppercorn that i don't love.) sweet is best when combined with one of the former.

Relationship Status: single 4 lyf <3

Last Thing I Googled: jason talia ao3 (trying to indoctrinate the algorithm but also i'm too lazy to type it into the search bar on ao3)

Current Obsession: father brown radio dramas, neneh cherry, the normative status of logic (which is the topic of my thesis and will likely drive me insane in the coming months)

Last Book: finished east jerusalem noir from the akashic noir series yesterday. just started palestinian walks by raja shehadeh (reading non-research related nonfiction is so rare for me) and the david hawkes translation of cao xueqin's dream of the red chamber / story of the stone. also tentatively looking into god in pink by hasan namir, but i'll read it properly once i have more free time.

Looking Forward To: february! spring! getting back to the library. more than 8 hours of sunlight per day.

tagging: @firstaudrina, @whispering-imp, @maxwellshimbo, @winter-angst, @esskuesli, @deanwinchesterpregnant, @jensenis-still-deansnumberonefan, @bellezzamortale, @setsailslash, @catfoodsminmo, and anyone who sees this <3 (no pressure of course, i just love those little updates!)

#about me #meme

[librarycards]

for books:

convenience store woman, by sayaka murata

the story of the stone, by cao xueqin

war and peace, by lev tolstoy

the gray house, by maryam petrosyan

this census taker, by china mieville

iconic list as always!! here are some more (recced based on my knowledge of you ++ this list)

recs:

Chouette, Claire Oshetsky

Kinderkrankenhaus, Jesi Bender

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

Bonus: How Much of these Hills is Gold, C. Pam Zhang

#hope you like them!! #sadhoc #ask #book rec

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Story of the Stone | Author: Cao Xueqin | Publisher: Penguin (1974)

#books #The Story of the Stone #Cao Xueqin

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Hey Frank! If you were stuck eating one kind of pasta for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

"I'd like to think I could get used to almost any kind of pasta, but a large part of me suspects this would be wishful thinking. My love of pasta is very much a matter of cultural indoctrination, and if I had been raised by pasta-hating Italians I could well have ended up with a visceral loathing for pasta."

#cao xueqin's the wild man's dislike of the new #fatalefauxpas