Bringing China's Greatest Novel to Modern Readers
March 27, 2017
March 27, 2017
PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 27 -- Brown University issued the following news release:
In the 1980s, when Dore J. Levy was a newly minted assistant professor specializing in Chinese language and literature, a colleague asked her to write for a conference what he predicted would be "a 20-minute paper" on an 18th-century Chinese novel. Levy wrote about Cao Xuequin's "The Story of the Stone," a 120-chapter classic of Chinese literature that she had first encountered as . . .
In the 1980s, when Dore J. Levy was a newly minted assistant professor specializing in Chinese language and literature, a colleague asked her to write for a conference what he predicted would be "a 20-minute paper" on an 18th-century Chinese novel. Levy wrote about Cao Xuequin's "The Story of the Stone," a 120-chapter classic of Chinese literature that she had first encountered as . . .