Is Emotion (情) Good Or Evil?
Dream of the Red Chamber is really the book of 情.
In fact, figuring out just how to define 情 in any translation of this novel is tricky. Most translators have gone with some variation of “love” or “passion.”
But that just doesn’t go far enough, in my opinion.
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