About the author
Chiang Hsun, born in Xi'an, Shaanxi, in 1947, with ancestral roots in Changle, Fujian, is a Taiwanese painter, poet and writer. He graduated from the Department of History and the Graduate Institute of Art at Chinese Culture University, and studied at the Graduate Institute of Art at the University of Paris. He has served as editor-in-chief of Lion Art, chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Tunghai University, and president of Unitas Literary Monthly. Beyond his own creative work, Chiang has long promoted aesthetic education; his writings span literary appreciation, art and essays, and twelve of his works are included in this collection. He is best known for his series Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber, which reads the novel chapter by chapter and turns scholarly appreciation into accessible commentary. His other works, including Six Lectures on Solitude and Ten Lectures on Life, are clear and gentle in style, drawing reflections on beauty and life from everyday experience.
Written (28)
Rating 4.3★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Complete Eight Volumes) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 In Jiang Xun's Lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber, Jiang Xun, a leading Taiwanese aesthetician, distills insights from reading the novel dozens of t… Rating 4.3★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 1) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of Taiwan's great aesthete Chiang Hsun's half-century of repeated reading—dozens of times over—of… Rating 4.3★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 2) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 In Jiang Xun Talks about Dream of the Red Chamber, Taiwan's leading aesthetics scholar Jiang Xun distills insights from rereading the novel dozens of … Rating 4.3★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 3) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 A work of half a century's devotion, Jiang Xun's Lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber distills his dozens of rereadings of the novel into one of the m… Rating 4.3★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 4) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 A work of half a century's devotion, Jiang Xun's Lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber distills his dozens of rereadings of the novel into one of the m… Rating 4.3★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 5) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of Taiwanese aesthetician Chiang Hsun's half-century of repeated readings—dozens of times over—of… Rating 4.2★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 6) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 In Jiang Xun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber, the renowned Taiwanese aesthetician draws on more than half a century of repeated readings—dozens… Rating 4.2★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 7) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of half a century of devotion by the great Taiwanese aesthetician Chiang Hsun, who read Dream of … Rating 4.2★ Chiang Hsun Speaks on Dream of the Red Chamber (Volume 8) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2026 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the fruit of half a century of devotion by the great Taiwanese aesthetician Chiang Hsun, who read Dream of … Rating 4.0★ All Sentient Beings at This Moment Chiang Hsun Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is Jiang Xun's heartfelt diary of life, beginning in May of one year and ending in May of the next. At each seasonal solar term, he observes and … Rating 4.0★ You Came to This World Once, You Should Look at the Sun: To Lonely Passersby (12 Volumes) Yu Minhong / Chiang Hsun / Chua Lam / Hai Zi 天津博集新媒科技有限公司 · 2026 This boxed set comprises 12 volumes: Traveling Far Through the Years, All Beings at This Moment, The Fun of Being Human, Living This Life Well, Quiet … Rating 4.2★ The Beauty of Chinese Character Calligraphy Chiang Hsun Guangxi Normal University Press · 2019 More than five thousand years ago, the first Chinese character appeared as a symbol of the dawn, created between heaven and earth, recorded on animal … Rating 3.9★ All Beings at This Moment Chiang Hsun Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 All Beings at This Moment is a yearlong diary of daily life that Jiang Xun wrote with care. The book begins in May of one year and ends in May of the … Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber (Revised Edition) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2017 What makes this series remarkable is that it turns a classic everyone has heard of but few have actually finished into a daily read—one chapter a day.… Rating 4.5★ Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber Chiang Hsun Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2015 Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber is a close-reading work written by the writer, painter, and aesthetics popularizer Jiang Xun after decades of re… Rating 4.0★ A History of Western Art for Everyone Chiang Hsun Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2015 A History of Western Art for Everyone is a popular art-history book written by Chiang Hsun after his A History of Chinese Art for Everyone. Its predec… Rating 4.2★ Jiang Xun on Literature: From the Classic of Poetry to Tao Yuanming Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2014 This book is the first volume of Jiang Xun on Literature in Jiang Xun's "The Beauty of Chinese Literature" series, covering the long stretch of classi… Rating 4.0★ Jiang Xun on Literature: From the Book of Songs to Tao Yuanming Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2014 This is the first volume of Jiang Xun's "The Beauty of Chinese Literature" series; the second volume is Jiang Xun on Literature: From Tang Dynasty Pro… Jiang Xun on Literature: From Tang Prose to Modern Literature Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2014 This book is the second volume of Jiang Xun's "The Beauty of Chinese Literature" series, following the first volume, From the Book of Songs to Tao Yua… Rating 4.5★ Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber (Collector's Edition) (8-Volume Set) Chiang Hsun Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2012 Chiang Hsun on Dream of the Red Chamber (Collector's Edition) (8-Volume Set) is a systematic collection of lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber by the…Publishers
Shanghai Joint Publishing CompanyCITIC Press天津博集新媒科技有限公司Guangxi Normal University PressHunan Literature and Art Publishing HouseHunan Fine Arts Publishing House