Jia Qiaojie's Bridegroom and the Ending of Story of the Stone
Tina Lu, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, November 07, 2005
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Professor Lu's talk analyzes the place of the Jia household in the eighteenth-century novel Hong Lou Meng (Dream of the Red Mansion). In focusing specifically on chapters 119 and 120, Professor Lu discusses why Jai Qiaojie's marriage is as necessary a part of the novel's end as the disappearance of the novel's protagonist, Jia Baoyu.Cost: Free and open to the public
For more information please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
gunde@ucla.edu
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
