The Warning Voice (72 page)

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-CHAI
daughter of Aunt Xue

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

ZHENS, THE
powerful Nanking family having dose ties with the Jias

ZHU-ER'S WIFE
daughter-in-law of Ying-chun's former wet-nurse

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. 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.