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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 99: Unscrupulous minions make use of their master’s virtue to conceal a multitude of sins And Jia Zheng is alarmed to read his nephew’s name in the ‘Peking Gazette’
TO CONTINUE OUR STORY
Chapter 100: Caltrop disturbs an elaborate seduction and inspires bitter resentment Bao-yu learns of a distressing betrothal and laments an imminent departure
Chapter 101: In Prospect Garden a moonlit apparition repeats an ancient warning And at Scattered Flowers Convent the fortune-sticks provide a strange omen
Chapter 102: Illness descends upon the Jia family in Ning-guo House And charms and holy water are used to exorcize Prospect Garden
Chapter 103: Jin-gui dies by her own hand, caught in a web of her own weaving Yu-cun encounters an old friend in vain, blind to the higher truths of Zen
Chapter 104: Drunken Dime at large again – a small fish whips up a mighty storm Our Besotted Hero in agony once more – a chance thrust quickens a numbed heart
Chapter 105: The Embroidered Jackets raid Ning-guo House And Censor Li impeaches the Prefect of Ping-an
Chapter 106: Wang Xi-feng feels remorse for the consequences of her past misdeeds And Grandmother Jia prays for the family’s deliverance from further calamity
Chapter 107: Impelled by family devotion, Grandmother Jia distributes her personal possessions Favoured with an Imperial dispensation, Jia Zheng receives his brother’s hereditary rank
Chapter 108: A birthday party held for Sister Allspice necessitates a false display of jollity And ghostly weeping heard at the Naiad’s House provokes a fresh outburst of grief
Chapter 109: Fivey shares a vigil, and receives affection meant for another Ying-chun pays her debt to fate, and returns to the Realm of Primordial Truth
Chapter 110: Lady Jia ends her days, and returns to the land of shades Wang Xi-feng exhausts her strength, and forfeits the family’s esteem
Chapter 111: A devoted maid renders a final service, and accompanies her mistress to the Great Void A villainous slave takes his revenge, and betrays his masters into the hands of thieves
Chapter 112: Adamantina discharges a karmic debt and receives a blow from the Hand of Providence Aunt Zhao concludes a deadly feud and sets out on the road to the Nether World
Chapter 113: Xi-feng repents of her former misdeeds, and entrusts her child to a village dame Nightingale softens a long-standing animosity, and warms to her besotted master
Chapter 114: Wang Xi-feng ends her life’s illusion and returns to Jinling Zhen Ying-jia receives the Emperor’s favour and is summoned to the Palace
Chapter 115: A private obsession revived confirms Xi-chun in an ancient vow A physical likeness verified deprives Bao-yu of an imagined friend
Chapter 116: Human destinies are revealed in a fairy realm, and the Stone is restored to its rightful owner Mortal remains are transported to their terrestrial home, and duty is discharged by a filial son
THE PARADISE OF TRUTH
AWAKEN FROM LOVE’S FOLLY
Chapter 117: Two fair damsels conspire to save the jade, and forestall a flight from earthly bondage An infamous rogue takes charge of the mansion, and assembles a gang of cronies
Chapter 118: Provoked by a rankling antipathy, Uncle and Cousin plot the ruin of an innocent maid Alarmed by riddling utterances, Wife and Concubine remonstrate with their idiot master
Chapter 119: Bao-yu becomes a Provincial Graduate and severs worldly ties The House of Jia receives Imperial favour and renews ancestral glory
Chapter 120: Zhen Shi-yin expounds the Nature of Passion and Illusion And Jia Yu-cun concludes the Dream of Golden Days
Characters in Volume 5
Genealogical Tables
Copyright Page
Footnotes
Chapter 99: Unscrupulous minions make use of their master’s virtue to conceal a multitude of sins And Jia Zheng is alarmed to read his nephew’s name in the ‘Peking Gazette’
Page 19
Chapter 116: Human destinies are revealed in a fairy realm, and the Stone is restored to its rightful owner Mortal remains are transported to their terrestrial home, and duty is discharged by a filial son
Page 265
Chapter 120: Zhen Shi-yin expounds the Nature of Passion and Illusion And Jia Yu-cun concludes the Dream of Golden Days
Page 342
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