Obituary for David Hawkes, translator of “Story of the Stone” (红楼梦)

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A brief look at the fascinating life of the China scholar who undertook the first “non-academic” English translation of the Chinese classic, Story of the Stone (also known as the Dream of the Red Chamber), for Penguin Classics. During World War II, he mastered “military Japanese” and taught it to code-breakers in the West…

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