/lit/ - Literature

>>22919223
>What did you know going into Red Chamber?
That my translation was the state approved translation (Beijing Foreign Press) even though the husband and wife duo were briefly imprisoned during the cultural revolution and only finished the translation after being let out. Also that the last 40 chapters were either lost or never finished and a second editor/author finished the book.
Other than that the only other background I had was what is written on the back of the book, or in the first couple paragraphs of the wikipedia article.