The Golden Days (The Story of the Stone #1)

Xinran This book is believed by many to be the greatest Chinese novel ever written. (Source)

Chris Livaccari Like Lu Xun for the modern literary tradition, if you ask scholars – or most people in China – for the greatest novel in the classical tradition, there are generally four novels of the Ming and Qing that are venerated. This is the most recent. It’s a very long and complex novel, and hard to summarise. For me, in the literary tradition of the whole world, this book along with two others – The Tale of Genji from Japan in the 11th century, and Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past from France in the 20th century – are the three works in which the experience of reading the novel is genuinely an... (Source)