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1.1 Hong Lou Meng and its English versions英文版本的红楼梦
The classical novel Hong Lou Meng is a monumental work in the history ofChinese literature featured by an abundance of Chinese culture and plentiful artisticimages. www.51lunwe.org Many researchers believe that the first eighty chapters were written by CaoXueqin, the latter 40 chapters by Gao E. This novel gives us a vivid picture of fourfamilies from prosperity to decay with the contextual clue of the tragedy of lovebetween Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. To some extent, it is the greatest realist novel inancient Chinese literary world. In this novel political struggles and economic oppressionof feudal society are reflected, so it is considered as an “encyclopedia” of Chinesefeudal society.Not only is this novel endowed with marvelous thought-provoking value, but alsoit reaches superb artistic level. The language used in this novel has also reached aclimax in Chinese traditional classics. And this novel has an integrated structure and askillfully knitted frame. All of these make Hong Lou Meng have profound impact onboth Chinese literature and world literature.To describe characters' image and personality is one of the key techniques in thecreation of a novel, and characters are the soul of the novel. One of the reasons whyHong Lou Meng is so popular and successful is that the author Cao Xueqin presentsmore than 400 characters through superb artistry of description and delicate techniquesof dialogue writing. Although there are more than 400 characters, the principalcharacters are fewer than twenty. As for secondary characters, even those appearingonly for a short of time are vividly portrayed. This is one of the highlights of Hong LouMeng.Hong Lou Meng has attracted many scholars' and experts" interest and attentionbecause of its great value of literature after its emergence. In China, there has formed aspecific area of research named Redology. With the hot wave of Sino-Western culturalcommunication，more and more Chinese literature classics are introduced to the West.Hong Lou Meng is one of the cases. And it has been translated into many languagessuch as English, Germany and French and so on. There are about ten versions specificto English. Among these, the most familiar and popular ones are A Dream of RedMansions translated by Yang Hsien-yi and his wife Gladys Yang and The Story of theStone translated by David Hawkes and his son-in-law Jone Minford. Many scholars athome and abroad devote themselves to this masterpiece due to its high literature valueand its great contributions to the intercultural communication. Because of its complex ofHong Lou Meng,https://www.51lunwen.org/yywxlw/org201211212118129779.html it's hard to analyze all translated versions, so just Yang Hsien-yi，stranslation is studied in the thesis.

1.2 Significance of the study研究的意义
Literature is a kind of human science, thus characters are considered as the startingpoint, center, and destination of literature. It can be said that literary characters arealways the symbols of the most essential meaning to the literature. Redologyresearchers and readers of Hong Lou Meng certainly concentrate themselves on thefigures. The description of characters is an important and indispensable part of HongLou Meng.Wang Xifeng is one of the successful characters showed in Hong Lou Meng andhas appe本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。