Dream in Red Mansions

“Dream in Red Mansions—for all its glory, it is but a dream.”

Dream of the Red Chamber, first released in 1987, was a television series produced by CCTV, adapted from the classic 18th century Chinese novel of the same name. It gained enormous popularity for its music, cast, and plot adaptation, being regarded by many within China as being a near-definitive adaptation of the story.

Creator: Wang Fulin

Network: CCTV-1