Zhiyanzhai

"Only one who understood the message of this book could have the hot and bitter tears with which to finish it. Xueqin, having run out of tears, departed this life on New Year's Eve of the year ren-wu l…"

"It is most likely that the author was the only one who owed and paid a debt of tears. I know something about this but not all the details."

"Commentaries on the Novel at Dream of the Red Chamber: Afterlives"

"Persons whom I saw thirty years ago and with whom I was intimate now appear on the page, and this compels me to declare that The Story of the Stone is a book of the deepest feelings and the truest wor…"

"says that Xueqin worked on this book and revised it many times. In that case, who wrote all this preliminary section up to here? Evidently this is just the author playing a trick on us. He resorts to …"