Pride of place
Updated: 2014-05-13 08:00
By Mei Jia (China Daily)
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AT A GLANCE
10 BEST ASIAN NOVELS OF ALL TIME
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・ A Dream of Red Mansions
Cao Xueqin (1791)
With a cast of more than 400 characters, this episodic novel written in the vernacular rather than classical Chinese tells of two branches of an aristocratic family with a tragic love story at its humane heart.
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