In The Guardian Michael Wood wonders Why is China's greatest novel virtually unknown in the west ? -- meaning, of course, Cao Xueqin's The Story of The Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber), which I hope many of my readers are, in fact, familiar with.
Wood apparently shared a house with translator David Hawkes while at Oxford, so there's some nice background about him and the translation, too.
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Posted on 2/12/2016