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This classic of Chinese literature is repetitive, and there may be sooo many characters that it's impossible to remember most of them (even using the character guide in the front of the book--though really, the recurrent characters are the ones who truly matter, and even I could keep them straight reading this over the course of 11 months). But this book is to Chinese literature and culture what something like Pilgrim's Progress is to English/American literature. Only this book is from the 16th/
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