Book Signing w/Pauline Chen '87 author of The Red Chamber

 

The Red Chamber, by Pauline A. Chen ’87, is inspired by the Chinese masterwork Dream of the Red Chamber, and tells the intertwined stories of three women in an aristocratic household in eighteenth-century Beijing. At the downtown Barnes & Noble, Pauline will talk about Dream of the Red Chamber’s unrivalled centrality in the Chinese imagination, the mystery of its missing ending, and the challenges of reinterpreting a Chinese classic for a modern American audience.