Xia ye ji shi 夏夜即事

by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (ca. 1715–ca. 1763)

Dynasty: Qing 清 (1644–1911)

Included in: Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹. Gao E 高鶚 (ed.). Hongloumeng 红楼梦 Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973. 267.

David Hawkes (1923–2007): Summer –
in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 460f.
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Summer Night –
in: Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益. A Dream of Red Mansions: Volume 1. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. p. 333.

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