__The Story of the Stone__ is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. This book is a straightforward guide to a complex classic. Each chapter of the companion summarizes and comments on each chapter of the novel, providing English-speaking readers with the cultural context to enjoy the story and understand its world.

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A Companion to The Story of the Stone : A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide

Pai, Kenneth Hsien-Yung; Egan, Susan Chan

Glock, Judge Earl

Judge Earl Glock

Columbia Business School Publishing

King's Crown Paperbacks

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism, New York, NY, 2021

Columbia Studies in the History of U, New York, NY, 2020

United States, United States of America

1, 20210406

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"Bailouts and a Balanced Economy: A New History of the American State, 1913-1939 shows that the kinds of bailouts that inspired such popular fury during the 2008 financial crisis emerged from a long history of government support for the financial sector, most especially for banks making mortgages. Glock argues that a central goal of the American government in the early 20th century, from the Progressive Era through the New Deal, was to encourage new and riskier types of bank loans through government guarantees. He shows that the Great Depression led the government to act on its earliest promises and provide billions of dollars of bailouts to insolvent banks, even while it extended support to an ever greater proportion of banks and financiers. The book thus argues that the most significant and extensive government safety net that emerged from the first half of the twentieth century was the safety net protecting banks and lenders, especially those making long-term mortgages. The recent bailouts were only the culmination of these earlier reforms. The book explains that these government guarantees emerged from the combination of a new ideology and a new alliance of interest groups. The ideology declared it the duty of the government ensure a "balanced economy" between all productive sectors. In this conception, the government needed to act as a sort of fulcrum, bolstering any economic sector, such as agriculture, that fell behind. Without focused financial support for these sectors, the ideology argued, the economy risked falling "out of balance," or into "unbalanced growth," which could end in depression or disaster. Throughout the book, Glock shows how recovering this concept can help us make sense of the decisions and actions of policy makers during this crucial time"-- Provided by publisher

The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber ) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever since it was first published in 1791. The story revolves around the young scion of a mighty clan who, instead of studying for the civil service examinations, frolics with his maidservants and girl cousins. The narrative is cast within a mythic framework in which the protagonist's rebellion against Confucian strictures is guided by a Buddhist monk and a Taoist priest. Embedded in the novel is a biting critique of imperial China's political and social system.
This book is a straightforward guide to a complex classic that was written at a time when readers had plenty of leisure to sort through the hundreds of characters and half a dozen subplots that weave in and out of the book's 120 chapters. Each chapter of the companion summarizes and comments on each chapter of the novel. The companion provides English-speaking readers—whether they are simply dipping into this novel or intent on a deep analysis of this masterpiece—with the cultural context to enjoy the story and understand its world.
The book is keyed to David Hawkes and John Minford's English translation of The Story of the Stone and includes an index that gives the original Chinese names and terms.

The American government today supports a financial system based on mortgage lending, and it often bails out the financial institutions making these mortgages. The Dead Pledge reveals the surprising origins of American mortgages and American bailouts in policies dating back to the early twentieth century.
Judge Glock shows that the federal government began subsidizing mortgages in order to help lagging sectors of the economy, such as farming and construction. In order to encourage mortgage lending, the government also extended unprecedented assistance to banks. During the Great Depression, the federal government made new mortgage lending and bank bailouts the centerpiece of its recovery program. Both the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations created semipublic financial institutions, such as Fannie Mae, to provide cheap, tradable mortgages, and they extended guarantees to more banks and financiers. Ultimately, Glock argues, the desire to protect the financial system took precedence over the desire to help lagging parts of the economy, and the government became ever more tied into the financial world.
The Dead Pledge recasts twentieth-century economic, financial, and political history and demonstrates why the greatest "safety net" created in this era was the one supporting finance.

"The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, as it is also known, is a dauntingly long book with over 400 characters. The eighteenth-century novel has all the elements of a well-crafted soap opera, but embedded in the story is an unsentimental critique of China's political and social system at its peak of glory, before the intrusion of the West. Therefore, literary merits aside, the novel offers a fun way to learn about premodern China. A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide provides a succinct summary and commentary on each chapter of the novel"-- Provided by publisher

2023-08-22