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This event is in the past.It took place on February 7, 2026 at China Institute of America.

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Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time 1
Literature Talk
Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time 2
Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time 3
Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time 4
Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time 5

Mourning the Ming or Mourning the Self? Writing Dream of the Red Chamber and Reading It Across Time

At China Institute of America

Battery Park City

Trace how Dream of the Red Chamber, China's greatest novel, transforms with each generation—from emotional masterpiece to Ming elegy to socialist text, revealing what each era seeks in its pages.

Literary lecture
Chinese literature
Virtual event
Cultural history

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📚explores why Ming dynasty theory keeps resurfacing online
🎓speaker is award-winning author and literary scholar
💻virtual via Zoom, register in advance

China Institute of America

100 Washington St, New York, NY 10006, USA

+1 212-744-8181

chinainstitute.org

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