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[Cao Xueqin] has succeeded in turning the concept of world and life as dream into a subtle but powerful theory of fiction that he uses constantly to confound his reader's sense of reality.

— Anthony C. Yu Rereading the Stone (1997)

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At a time when officials of particular nations on earth are vying to vaunt the ability of their leadership or the merit of incomparable power even in the looming shadow of catastrophic conflict, the wisdom of the DDJ seems ever more compelling and urgent.

For my students at the University of Chicago and in memoriam the Dead at Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989

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