The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin was left unfinished upon the author's death. It was later published under the more commonly used name of Dream of the Red Chamber with the latter forty chapters completed by Gao E. This edition prints the eighty chapters as completed by Cao before his death with commentaries by Zhi Yanzhai from ten different manuscript sources.
The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin was left unfinished upon the author's death. It was later published under the more commonly used name of Dream of the Red Chamber with the latter forty chapters completed by Gao E. This edition prints the eighty chapters as completed by Cao before his death with commentaries by Zhi Yanzhai from ten different manuscript sources.