A Variorum Story of the Stone

This project aims to construct  a full variorum edition of the celebrated eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone (石頭記, known also by the name of its 1791 imprint Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢).  Beginning with nineteenth-century imprints with commentary, we will gradually include manuscript editions with manuscript commentary.  A Yale graduate seminar, to be held in Spring 2016, will collate and translate full commentaries.

Project Texts: 
增評補圖石頭記
Bibliography: 

Title:  東觀閣本 • 新增批評繡像紅樓夢 (DGGB)

Author: Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) , Gao E (高鶚)

Commentator: Dongguanzhuren(東觀主人)

Publisher: National Library of China Publishing House(北京國家圖書館出版社)

Year: 1811

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Title:  雙清仙館本 • 新評繡像紅樓夢全傳(SQXG)

Author: Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) , Gao E (高鶚)

Commentator: Wang Xilian (王希廉)

Publisher: National Library of China Publishing House(北京國家圖書館出版社)

Year: 1832

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Title:  增評補像全圖金玉緣 (ZPBX)

Author: Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) , Gao E (高鶚)

Commentator: Wang Xilian (王希廉), Zhang Xinzhi (張新之), Yao Xie (姚燮)

Publisher: National Library of China Publishing House(北京國家圖書館出版社)

Year: 1884

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Title:  妙復軒評石頭記 (MFXP)

Author: Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) , Gao E (高鶚)

Commentator: Zhang Xinzhi (張新之)

Publisher: National Library of China Publishing House(北京國家圖書館出版社)

Year: 1881

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Title: 舒元煒序紅樓夢(SYZX)

Author: Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹) Only covers chapters 1 to 40

Year:  1789 (also known as the已酉)