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PENGUIN CLASSICS
VOLUME II
C AO X UEQIN (1715?63) was born into a family which for three generations held the office of Commissioner of Imperial Textiles in Nanking, a family so wealthy that they were able to entertain the Emperor Kangxi four times. But calamity overtook them and their property was confiscated. Cao Xueqin was living in poverty near Peking when he wrote his famous novel The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), of which this is the second volume. The four other volumes, The Golden Days, The Warning Voice, The Debt of Tears and The Dreamer Wakes, are also published in the Penguin Classics.
D AVID H AWKES was Professor of Chinese at Oxford University from 1959 to 1971 and a Research Fellow of All Souls College, from 1973 to 1983. He now lives in retirement in Wales.
A CHINESE NOVEL BY
CAO XUEQIN
IN FIVE VOLUMES
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VOLUME II
THE CRAB-FLOWER CLUB
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TRANSLATED BY
DAVID HAWKES
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This translation first published 1977
Copyright David Hawkes, 1977
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Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser
ISBN: 978-0-14-196890-2
IN MEMORIAM
R. C. Z.
C HINESE proper names in this book are spelled in accordance with a system invented by the Chinese and used internationally, which is known by its Chinese name of Pinyin. A full explanation of this system will be found overleaf, but for the benefit of readers who find systems of spelling and pronunciation tedious and hard to follow a short list is given below of those letters whose Pinyin values are quite different from the sounds they normally represent in English, together with their approximate English equivalents. Mastery of this short list should ensure that names, even if mispronounced, are no longer unpronounceable.
c = ts
q = ch
x = sh
z = dz
zh = j
The syllables of Chinese are made up of one or more of the following elements:
1. an initial consonant (b.c.ch.d.f.g.h.j.k.l.n.m.p.q.r.s.sh.t.w.x.y.z.zh)
2. a semivowel (i or u)
3. an open vowel (a.e.i.o.u.), or
a closed vowel (an.ang.en.eng.in.ing.ong.un), or
a diphthong (ai.ao.ei.ou)
The combinations found are:
3 on its own (e.g. e, an, ai)
1 + 3 (e.g. ba, xing, bao)
1 + 2 + 3 (e.g. xue, qiang, biao)
Apart from c = ts and z = dz and r, which is the Southern English r with a slight buzz added, the only initial consonants likely to give an English speaker much trouble are the two groups
j q x and zh ch sh
Both groups sound somewhat like English j ch sh; but whereas j q x are articulated much farther forward in the mouth than our j ch sh, the sounds zh ch sh are made in a retroflexed position much farther back. This means that to our ears j sounds halfway between our j and dz, q halfway between our ch and ts, and x half-way between our sh and s; whilst zh ch sh sound somewhat as jr, chr, shr would do if all three combinations and not only the last one were found in English.
The semivowel i palatalizes the preceding consonant: i.e. it makes a y sound after it like the i in onion (e.g. Jia Lian)
The semivowel u labializes the preceding consonant: i.e. it makes a w sound after it, like the u in assuages (e.g. Ning-guo)
a is a long ah like a in father (e.g. Jia)
e on its own or after any consonant other than y is like the sound in French uf or the er, ir, ur sound of Southern English (e.g. Gao E, Jia She)
e after y or a semivowel is like the e of egg (e.g. Qin Bang-ye, Xue Pan)
i after b.d.j.l.m.n.p.q.t.x.y is the long Italian i or English ee as in see (e.g. Nannie Li)
i after zh.ch.sh.z.c.s.r. is a strangled sound somewhere between the u of suppose and a vocalized r (e.g. Shi-yin)
i after semivowel u is pronounced like ay in sway (e.g. Li Gui)
o is the au of author (e.g. Duo)
u after semivowel i and all consonants except j.q.x.y is pronounced like Italian u or English oo in too (e.g. Bu Gu-xiu)
u after j.q.x.y and after 1 or n is the narrow French u or German , for which there is no English equivalent (e.g. Bao-yu, N-wa)
an after semivowel u or any consonant other than y is like an in German Mann or un in Southern English fun (e.g. Yuan-chun, Shan Ping-pen)
an after y or semivowel i is like en in hen (e.g. Zhi-yan-zhai, Jia Lian)
ang whatever it follows, invariably has the long a of father (e.g. Jia Qiang)
en, eng the e in these combinations is always a short, neutral sound like a in ago or the first e in believe (e.g. Cousin Zhen, Xi-feng)
in, ing short i as in sin, sing (e.g. Shi-yin, Lady Xing)
ong the o is like the short 00 of Southern English book (e.g. Jia Cong)
un the rule for the closed u is similar to the rule for the open one: after j.q.x.y it is the narrow French u of rue; after anything else it resembles the short 00 of book (e.g. Jia Yun, Ying-chun)
ai like the sound in English lie, high, mine (e.g. Dai-yu)
ao like the sound in how or bough (e.g. Bao-yu)
ei like the sound in day or mate (e.g. Bei-jing)
ou like the sound in old or bowl (e.g. Gou-er)
The syllable er is a sound on its own which does not fit into any of the above categories. It sounds somewhat like the word err pronounced with a strong English West Country accent, (e.g. Bao Er).
T HE twenty-seven chapters of this second volume of
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