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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
Note On Spelling
Chinese Syllables
Initial Consonants
Semivowels
Vowels and Diphthongs
i. Open Vowels
ii. Closed Vowels
iii. Diphthongs
Preface
The Story of the Stone
Chapter 27: Beauty Perspiring sports with butterflies by the Raindrop Pavilion And Beauty Suspiring weeps for fallen blossoms by the Flowers’ Grave
Chapter 28: A crimson cummerbund becomes a pledge of friendship And a chaplet of medicine-beads becomes a source of embarrassment
Chapter 29: In which the greatly blessed pray for yet greater blessings And the highly strung rise to new heights of passion
Chapter 30: Bao-chai speaks of a fan and castigates her deriders Charmante scratches a ‘qiang’ and mystifies a beholder
Chapter 31: A torn fan is the price of silver laughter And a lost kylin is the clue to a happy marriage
Chapter 32: Bao-yu demonstrates confusion of mind by making his declaration to the wrong person And Golden shows an unconquerable spirit by ending her humiliation in death
Chapter 33: An envious younger brother puts in a malicious word or two And a scapegrace elder brother receives a terrible chastisement
Chapter 34: A wordless message meets with silent understanding And a groundless imputation leads to undeserved rebukes
Chapter 35: Sulky Silver tastes some lotus-leaf soup And Golden Oriole knots a flower-patterned fringe
Chapter 36: Bao-chai visits Green Delights and hears strange words from a sleeper Bao-yu visits Pear-tree Court and learns hard facts from a performer
Chapter 37: A happy inspiration prompts Tan-chun to found the Crab-flower Club And an ingenious arrangement enables Bao-chai to settle the chrysanthemum poem titles
Chapter 38: River Queen triumphs in her treatment of chrysanthemum themes And Lady Allspice is satirical on the subject of crabs
Chapter 39: An inventive old countrywoman tells a story of somewhat questionable veracity And an impressionable young listener insists on getting to the bottom of the matter
Chapter 40: Lady Jia holds two feasts in one day in the Prospect Garden And Faithful makes four calls on three dominoes in the Painted Chamber
Chapter 41: Jia Bao-yu tastes some superior tea at Green Bower Hermitage And Grannie Liu samples the sleeping accommodation at Green Delights
Chapter 42: Lady Allspice wins over a suspicious nature with some well-intentioned advice And River Queen enhances her reputation as a wit with some amusing sarcasms
Chapter 43: An old woman’s whim is the occasion of a birthday collection And a young man’s remorse finds solace in a simple ceremony
Chapter 44: Xi-feng’s jealousy is the object of an unexpected provocation And Patience’s toilet is a source of unexpected delight
Chapter 45: Sisterly understanding finds expression in words of sisterly frankness And autumnal pluviousness is celebrated in verses of autumnal melancholy
Chapter 46: An awkward person is given an awkward mission And a faithful maid vows faithfulness unto death
Chapter 47: In pursuit of love the Oaf King takes a fearful beating And from fear of reprisal the Reluctant Playboy makes a hasty getaway
Chapter 48: The Love Deluded One turns his thoughts to trade and travel And the Poetry Enthusiast applies herself to making verses
Chapter 49: Red flowers bloom brighter in dazzling snow And venison reeks strangely on rosebud lips
Chapter 50: Linked verses in Snowy Rushes Retreat And lantern riddles in the Spring In Winter Room
Chapter 51 A clever cousin composes some ingenious riddles And an unskilful physician prescribes a barbarous remedy
Chapter 52 Kind Patience conceals the theft of a Shrimp Whisker bracelet And brave Skybright repairs the hole in a Peacock Gold snowcape
Chapter 53 Ning-guo House sacrifices to the ancestors on New Year’s Eve And Rong-guo House entertains the whole family on Fifteenth Night
Appendix I Regulated Verse
Appendix II Threesomes with the Dominoes
Appendix III Unsolved Riddles
RED CLIFF
HANOI
MT ZHONG-SHAN
HUAI-YIN
GUANG-LING
PEACH LEAF FORD
GREEN MOUND
MA-WEI
THE MONASTERY AT PU-DONG
THE PLUM-TREE SHRINE
Characters in Vol. II
Genealogical Tables
Penguin Story
Copyright Page
Footnotes
Chapter 40 Lady Jia holds two feasts in one day in the Prospect Garden And Faithful makes four calls on three dominoes in the Painted Chamber
Page 300
Chapter 50 Linked verses in Snowy Rushes Retreat And lantern riddles in the Spring In Winter Room
Page 510
Chapter 51 A clever cousin composes some ingenious riddles And an unskilful physician prescribes a barbarous remedy
Page 512
Appendix III Unsolved Riddles
Page 594
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