An early commentator on this work had a pseudonym meaning “Inkstone Studio.” John Minford helped complete the seminal English translation of this work by David Hawkes. A significant dispute in this work’s namesake “-ology” centers on whether its last forty chapters were a later addition to its first eighty chapters. Feminist criticism of this work often contrasts the female-dominated space of the Grand View Garden with the patriarchal outside world and discusses the 12 Beauties of Jīnlíng. In this novel, the Disenchantment Fairy is visited by a priest and a monk carrying the protagonist, who is reincarnated as a boy with a piece of jade in his mouth. For 10 points, the tragic love story of Jiǎ Bǎoyù and Lín Dàiyù is detailed in what classic Chinese novel? ■END■
ANSWER: Dream of the Red Chamber [or The Story of the Stone; or A Dream of Red Mansions; or Hóng lóu mèng; prompt on Redology]
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