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Dreams in Red Mansions
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  • Book DesignLimited Edition & Fine Binding Books

Country

  • China

Client

  • Shanghai Classics Publishing House

Design Agency

  • T-Change Design Studio

A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the four great Chinese classic novels as well as the pinnacle of Chinese classical literature. Sun Wen, a painter in Qing Dynasty, spent 36 years crafting 230 masterpieces of the world of Red Mansion. With a slender book size and soft rice paper (Chinese Xuan Paper) printing, this book is traditionally accordion-folded, making readers cautious about the process of flipping through the book.