SNOWGOOSE maid of Dai-yu
SUN SHAO-ZU brutal sensualist to whom Jia She insists on marrying Ying-chun
SUNLOUD
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maids of Lady Wang
SUNSET
SWALLOW junior maid attached to Green Delights; daughter of Parfumée’s foster-mother, Mamma He
TAN see JIA TAN-CHUN
TAN-CHUN see JIA TAN-CHUN
TANGERINE maid of Ying-chun
TEALEAF Bao-yu’s principal page
‘UNCLE DUMBO’ see XING DE-QUAN
UNCLE SHE see JIA SHE
UNCLE ZHENG see JIA ZHENG
WANG JI-REN doctor in regular attendance on the Rong-guo Jia family
WANG SHAN-BAO’S WIFE a meddlesome old woman; trusted servant of Lady Xing; Chess’s grandmother
WANG XI-FENG wife of Jia Lian and niece of Lady Wang, Aunt Xue and Wang Zi-teng
WANG XIN a member of the Wang household employed by Wang Xi-feng
WIDOW SHAN one of the senior Rong-guo stewardesses
WU XIN-DENG Clerk of Stores at the Rong-guo mansion
WU XING
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servants of Lady Wang who were orginally
members of her father’s household
WU XING’S WIFE
XI-CHUN see JIA XI-CHUN
XI-FENG see WANG XI-FENG
XI-LUAN see JIA XI-LUAN
XIA BING-ZHONG eunuch Master of the Bedchamber in the Imperial Palace
XIA JIN-GUI termagant wife of Xue Pan
XIANG-LIAN see LIU XIANG-LIAN
XIANG-TUN see SHI XIANG-TUN
XING DE-QUAN Lady Xing’s good-for-nothing brother; father of Xing Xiu-yan
XING XIU-YAN niece of Lady Xing befriended by Adamantina, later betrothed to Bao-chai’s cousin Xue Ke
XIU-YAN see XING XIU-YAN
XUE BAO-QIN niece of Aunt Xue and younger sister of Xue Ke
XUE KE Xue Bao-qin’s elder brother
XUE PAN the ‘Oaf King’, al. ‘Cousin Oaf’; son of Aunt Xue and elder brother of Bao-chai
YELÜ HUNNI see PARFUMÉE
YING see JIA YING-CHUN
YING-CHUN see JIA YING-CHUN
YOU ER-JIE elder of You-shi’s two step-sisters
YOU SAN-JIE younger of You-shi’s two step-sisters
YOU-SHI wife of Cousin Zhen and mother of Jia Rong
YU LU junior steward at Ning-guo House
YUAN-CHUN see JIA YUAN-CHUN
YUN see SHI XIANG-YUN
ZHANG DE-HUI manager of Xue Pan’s shop
ZHANG HUA dissolute young gambler betrothed since infancy to You Er-jie
ZHANGS, THE destitute family of which Zhang Hua was a member
ZHAO GUO-JI brother of Aunt Zhao
ZHEN see COUSIN ZHEN
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servants of Lady Wang orginally
members of her father’s household
ZHENG HUA’S WIFE
ZHENS, THE powerful Nanking family having dose ties with the Jias
ZHOU RUI
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trusted senior servants on the staff of Rong-
guo House
ZHOU RUI’S WIFE
ZHU-ER’S WIFE daughter-in-law of Ying-chun’s former wet-nurse
1. Or however many chapters this last part of the novel was divided into. Xueqin’s statement in chapter 1 and certain features of the Red Inkstone manuscripts suggest that the earliest versions may have had no chapter divisions at all.
1. Curiously enough the text of the manuscript I call ‘Gao E’s draft’ has got ‘Skybright’ instead of ‘Sandal’ here. Gao E’s eventual preference for ‘Sandal’, which he presumably found in other texts available to him, must have been based on a misunderstanding of what was wrong in the text of his draft: Skybright’s mother. His published text – in the only editions that are available to me – besides reverting to ‘Sandal’, has also substituted ‘mother’s illness’ for ‘mother’s birthday’. I am unable to assess the significance of this without access to more of the manuscript and printed editions than are at present available to me.