10 Speed, 1998, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, Illustrated, Illustrated By: Linda Ching
.No one knows if the Stone's story is true. Two hundred years of passionate debates and scholars still can't agree on what is true and what is not. They say the story was recorded in the Illusory Land of the Great Void like a divine imprint of the Stone's soul cast upon the Mountain of Expanding Spring. in time, the story came to the mortal Land of the Red Dust through the daydreams of a Chinese poet living simply in the fragrant Western Hills of Beijing. It would take a man with a true and understanding heart to translate the Stone's story for mortal musing and Cao Xueqin was such a man. As the epic revealed itself to him, he faithfully recorded it with great attention to detail. From his Studio of Red Mourning, he would find the words like cryptic notes hiding in the face of a frosty China moon or catch them drifting on the reverie of summer's golden clouds. So sorrowfully like his own life, this tale, it is said he penned the characters in a hundred thousand tears.......Artist Linda Ching's interpretation of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Chamber includes translations of the epic's prose and poetry by Yang Xian-yi and Gladys Yang. Photographed and researched extensively in China, Story of the Stone is a wonderful introduction to China's great literary masterpiece. Card Covers With Flaps. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 133 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Illustrator: Linda Ching. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; China; ISBN: 1580080189. ISBN/EAN: 9781580080187. Inventory No: 51571.
.No one knows if the Stone's story is true. Two hundred years of passionate debates and scholars still can't agree on what is true and what is not. They say the story was recorded in the Illusory Land of the Great Void like a divine imprint of the Stone's soul cast upon the Mountain of Expanding Spring. in time, the story came to the mortal Land of the Red Dust through the daydreams of a Chinese poet living simply in the fragrant Western Hills of Beijing. It would take a man with a true and understanding heart to translate the Stone's story for mortal musing and Cao Xueqin was such a man. As the epic revealed itself to him, he faithfully recorded it with great attention to detail. From his Studio of Red Mourning, he would find the words like cryptic notes hiding in the face of a frosty China moon or catch them drifting on the reverie of summer's golden clouds. So sorrowfully like his own life, this tale, it is said he penned the characters in a hundred thousand tears.......Artist Linda Ching's interpretation of Cao Xueqin's Dream of Red Chamber includes translations of the epic's prose and poetry by Yang Xian-yi and Gladys Yang. Photographed and researched extensively in China, Story of the Stone is a wonderful introduction to China's great literary masterpiece. Card Covers With Flaps. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 133 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Illustrator: Linda Ching. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; China; ISBN: 1580080189. ISBN/EAN: 9781580080187. Inventory No: 51571.