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China’s Story of the Stone: the best book

The Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of The death of the elderly Chinese scholar Zhou Ruchang draws attention to a startling fact: that China’s greatest work of literature, the 18th-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber, on which Professor Zhou was an acknowledged – and somewhat obsessive – expert, is still virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. And yet a complete and highly readable English translation has been available in Penguin Classics for nearly 30 years.

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[Chinese Instrument] 箫 — xiāo

Xiao The xiao (simplified Chinese: 箫; pinyin: xiāo) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute. It is generally made of dark brown bamboo (called "purple bamboo" in Chinese). It is also sometimes (particularly in Taiwan) called dòngxiāo (simplified Chinese: 洞箫; traditional Chinese: 洞簫), dòng meaning "hole." 

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