An Introduction to the Movable-Type Edition of Dream of the Red Chamber at National Taiwan University Library
Resource
大學圖書館9, 1, 93-99
Journal
大學圖書館9
Journal Issue
1
Pages
93-99
Date Issued
2005-03
Date
2005-03
Author(s)
Liu, Kwang-Ting
Chang, Pao-San
Hwang, Yu-Wen
DOI
246246/2006121215550530
Abstract
A copy of the wooden movable-type edition of Dream of Red Chamber is collected at the National Taiwan University Library, published by Cui-Wen Publisher in the late Qianlong era. The NTU copy has 120 chapters in 24 volumes which are kept in four cases. It begins with a foreword bt Cheng Weiyuan(Xiaochuan) and is then followed successively by a preface by Gao E, a list of contents, some pictures with poems, and then the main text. There are a number of handwritten pages, including the foreword, the preface, page 10 recto of chapter 3 to page 1 recto of chapter 4, and also page 1 of chapter 9. In comparison with the reprinted copies of the authentic Cheng's Version A and Cheng's Version B published by Beijing Library Press, we have found that in the copy at NTU, chapters 1 to 3 are a mixture od both versions: chapters 4 to 30, 91 to 115 and 117 to 120 are Version A, chapters 31 to 90 and 116 are Version B. Moreover, the list of contents and certain features or wordings in several pages are neither identical to those in Version A nor Version B.
Subjects
Dream of the Red Chamber
Cui-Wen Publisher
Wooden movable-type edition
Cheng's Version A
Cheng's Version B
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學圖書館
Type
journal article
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