Close Friends
One of the most difficult parts of translating Dream of the Red Chamber into English is accounting for the cultural connotations of certain terms.
It’s easy to think of a term like 知己 as a “friend.” However, the term itself has a much deeper linguistic connotation than just “friend.” And this is where a lot of the existing translations of Dream of the Red Chamber simply fall short.
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