Dream of the Red Chamber

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Wang Xifeng's fortune

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Daniel Evensen
Jul 26, 2025
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It’s actually pretty easy to tell who today’s poem is about. This is a welcome change from the extremely abstract poems we’ve recently had about characters that we haven’t really met yet. There are a few literary devices at play here that are impossible to translate, which is precisely why I’m writing textual notes.


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