Dream of the Red Chamber

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- In Buddhism: Buddhism after the Tang

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Academia - Reading and Folly in Dream of the Red Chamber.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 16, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Reading and Folly in Dream of the Red Chamber.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 14, 2023
	Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - "Dream of the Red Chamber".	Gloria Lotha	Aug 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "The dream of the red chamber" = Hung lou meng: a Chinese novel of the early Ching period.	Aakanksha Gaur	Feb 27, 2023
	Removed media.	Adam Augustyn	Nov 01, 2021
	Dream of the Red Chamber's status in world literature noted.	J.E. Luebering	Feb 26, 2018
	Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - "The Dream of the Red Chamber".	Gloria Lotha	May 31, 2017
	Media added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 28, 2017
	Added new Web site: ChinaCulture.org - "Hong Lou Meng" ("A Dream of Red Mansions").	John Higgins	Jan 09, 2007
	Added new Web site: China-on-site.com.	John Higgins	May 15, 2006
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 01, 2005
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998