cao zhan

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or Ts'ao Chan born 1715?, Jiangning, Jiangsu province, China died Feb. 12, 1763, Beijing Chinese novelist. He is the author of Dream of the Red Chamber (1791), generally considered China's greatest novel. A partly autobiographical work written in the vernacular, it describes in lingering detail the decline of a powerful family and an ill-fated love between cousins. Cao finished at least 80 of its 120 chapters; it was completed after his death, probably by Gao E, about whom little is known