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用英语重新演绎《红楼梦》 The Red Chamber, Reimagined It is one of the great classics of Chinese literature, a sprawling saga full of love triangles and falls from grace, but at 2,500 pages and more than 400 characters, Cao Xueqins Dream of the Red Chamber has never caught on with English-language readers. 作为中国伟大的文学经典作品之一，曹雪芹的《红楼梦》（Dream of the Red Chamber ）讲述了数段三角恋情和家族没落的故事。但这本长达2,500 页、有着 400 多个角色的长篇巨着却从未在英语读者中流行过。 Pauline Chen attempted to change that with her pared-down retelling, The Red Chamber, a novel she wrote after she too struggled with the original. Knopf 《红楼》是根据曹雪芹在18 世纪写的《红楼梦》改编而成。陈宝琳（Pauline Chen，音）试图通过她对原书的缩减和复述来改变这一局面，她在原着的基础上 写出了小说《红楼》(The Red Chamber) 。对于她来说阅读原着也是很费力的。 Id heard of it as a kid, and I tried to start it but got only as far as Chapter Two, said Ms. Chen. 陈宝琳说，“我很小的时候就听说过这本书，当时曾试着去读，但读到第二章就 读不下去了。” While she was studying at Princeton University, she braced herself for a second try and read it cover-to-cover. This time, she was struck by Red Chambers social observations and that the 18th-century book treated servants as characters with genuine emotions, rather than using them as only comic relief, she said. Its viewpoint was ahead of its time. 当她在普林斯顿大学(Princeton University)学习的时候，她开始第二次尝试去读这 本书，并从头一直读到了尾。这一次，她被《红楼梦》对社会的观察震惊了。这 本18 世纪的小说将里面的仆人角色刻画得有血有肉、各具性情，“而非仅仅将他 们用作轻松滑稽的调料。这本书的视角超前于它的时代。” Red Chambers plot revolves around the trials and tribulations of the wealthy Jia family during the Qing dynasty. The original tome is daunting not only because of its length, but because of the intricate cast of characters. Readers often turn to family trees to keep the names straight, and English-language audiences can find the similar Chinese names (one household includes numerous Jias, includi