The Translator’s Mirror for the Romantic: Cao Xueqin’s Dream and David Hawkes’ Stone

First monograph about a systematic study of David Hawkes’ monumental translation of The Story of the Stone

First time using precious primary source materials such as manuscript, typescript, letters and notebooks

Endorsement by John Minford, collaborator and literary executor of David Hawkes

Appealing to and useful for students and scholars in Chinese language and literature, translation studies and comparative literature

Non conventional in not adopting theoretical but from a pragmatic standpoint