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"The novel as such really had a humble beginning only in the ninth century, had its mature development late in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries(Ming) and reached its climax in the beginning of the Manchu Dynasty with the Red Chamber Dream, a contemporary and Oriental counterpart of Clarissa Harlowe." The Red Chamber Dream signifies the climax and supreme achievement in classical novels.
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