5John Minford. " Foreword". In David Hawkes, The Story of the Stone: A Translator's Notebooks(《红楼梦》英译笔记).Hong Kong: Center for Literature and Translation, Lingnan Univeristy, 2000, xii.
6Hatto Kuhn, Dr. Franz Kuhn ( 1884-1961 ) : Lebensbeschreibung und Bibliographie seiner Werke. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1980.
7Wu, Shih - ch' ang(吴世昌), On The Red Chamber Dream. Oxford- Clarendon, 1961.
8Hsia, C. T.(夏志清)"A Review of On The Red Chamber Dream" , Journal of Asian Studies, 1961, 21 (1) : 78-80.
9John Minford," Foreword". In David Hawkes, The Story of the Stone: A Translator's Notebooks(《红楼梦》英译笔记).