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Introduction
Introduction to the Text
Authorship
Controversy Over the Last 40 Chapters
Commentaries on the Novel
Englishing the Text
Archived material from the 2016 San Francisco Opera production
Discussion of the Opera by Byron Au Yong
The Monk
Jia Baoyu 賈寶玉
Lin Daiyu 林黛玉
Xue Baochai 薛寶釵
Grandmother Jia 賈母
Jia Yuanchun 賈元春
Lady Wang 王夫人
Aunt Xue 薛姨媽
Women Poets Respond to the Novel
Zhou Qi 周綺
ZHOU QI 周綺 COLOPHON ON WANG QIAO 汪喬 PAINTING
Wu Zao 吴藻: "Reading the Dream of the Red Chamber" 讀紅樓夢(乳燕飛)
Song Mingqiong 宋鳴瓊: "On Dream of the Red Chamber" 题红楼梦
Shen Shanbao 沈善宝 : "Written Playfully on Reading Honglou meng"
Li Peijin 李佩金: "In Night Rain" 瀟湘夜雨,題葬花圖
Xin Qiji poem referring to Nu Wa
Jin Yi 金逸: "Written on a Cold Night" 寒夜待竹士不歸讀紅樓夢傳奇有作
Yuan Mei's eulogy for Jin Yi
Xiong Lian 熊璉 poem as endorsement to painting "Twelve Beauties"
Qian Shoupu 錢守璞: "On Reading Shitou ji, I Celebrate the Lady of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers" 閱石頭記詠瀟湘妃子
Sun Sunyi 孫蓀意: "On the Novel Honglou meng" 題紅樓夢傳奇(賀新源)
Li Yuan poem
Visual Responses to the Novel
Embroidery of Scenes from Dream of the Red Chamber
Sleeveband Embroidered with Scenes from Dream of Red Chamber
Jacket with Embroidered Scenes from Dream of Red Chamber and White Snake
Honglou meng tuyong 紅樓夢圖詠 (Illustrations on Honglou meng)
Sequels to the Novel
Skybright mends the cape
Peepshows
Mei Lanfang Sings "Daiyu Buries Flowers"
Zhou Xuan sings Flower Burial Song (from chapter 27)
Pingtan 評彈 Performance
1944 Movie Directed by Bu Wancang 卜萬蒼
1962 Hongkong Film: Shaoxing opera Honglou meng
Shaoxing opera: Daiyu's death
Further adaptations of the text
World Premiere 2016
The Production
Video Highlights from the San Francisco Opera Production
Responses to the Opera Premiere, 2016
Subsequent Productions
Program Notes for San Francisco Production
Images from the San Francisco Opera archive of the 2016 production
Cousins in the Garden
Everyday Occupations: The World of Women
Everyday Occupations: The World of Men
The World outside the Garden
Lu Zichang map of Prospect Garden
Daily Life in the Novel
Dreaming of the Qin 琴
The 2022 Production of Dream of the Red Chamber by the San Franscisco Opera
Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang discuss the 2022 Opera
Press notices and reviews of 2022 revival of opera
Interview with Zhang Meigui (Daiyu)
Interview with Jenny Zhang (author of Four Treasures of the Sky)
Lin Daiyu's farewell, sung by Zhang Meigui in 2022
Suggestions for further reading
Here are some images from the 2016 production.
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