New TV series recreates "A Dream of Red Mansions"-- a fantastic preview （2010版红楼梦）

A Dream of Red Mansions, sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber, the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more. The four great houses of Chia, Shih, Wang and Hsueh described in this novel were typical basic political units of feudal society. Such families were linked with the court above and the local officials below to form a network of control with the feudal autocratic state power as its centre. The book depicts the inevitable doom of these families, riven as they are by fierce struggles among themselves and in society, focusing on the tragic love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and also provides a panorama of the lives of people of various levels in the degenerating empire. It is the only one novel so brilliantly integrated with these that readers are fascinated and moved by it. With superb artistry the author presents a panoramic genre-painting, a whole gallery of highly individual yet typical characters. Through detailed descriptions of their daily life he succeeds in depicting their different idiosyncrasies, thoughts and feelings. In the use of dialogue too he shows outstanding skill, putting such distinctive speech into each character's mouth that the reader feels as if he can see and hear the speaker. The Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last feudal dynasty in China. The Chien-lung era (1736-95) was the turning point towards the decline of the Ching Dynasty. Crisis-riven feudalism was already on its last legs. The whole fabric of Chinese feudal society was tottering on the verge of final collapse. This was the period in which Tsao Hsueh-chin the author of A Dream of Red Mansions lived. Tsao Hsueh-chin died in the twenty-eighth year of Chien-lung (1763).

"A Dream of Red Mansions" has been made into films and TV series for several times. The new TV series promises a poetic beauty, found in the expression of montage and elaborate attention to detail. The residence of leading characters for the show are all being reconstructed on location. Three of the embroidered gowns were made by famous Chinese craftsman Gu Wenxia and her apprentices for the TV series. In addition, costume designer Yip Kap Tim (costume designer of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") is expected to add more luster to the show.

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[LadyOfTheGraveyard]

Anyone know if there will be a version with english subtitles?



[mtksbctk]

wtf bao yu looks ugly as hell, can't they get andy lau to play the role?!

[Serenachiang]

Exquisite production! Artistic and sensitive representation of the most famous Chinese novel in history! I look forward to a version with English sub of the series so that I can share it with my daughter.

[13thelephant]

@ichittick Wait, the NEW Dream of the Red Chamber is on youtube? Do you mind linking me to it?

[ichittick]

I've watched most of the series on youtube - it is every bit as amazing as this trailer suggests.

[dorkiebitch91]

can ani one eng sub this chinese series?

[TheXuancs]

What a fantastic world！look forward