 The novel form became widely read and perhaps China's most famous novel, "Dream of the Red Chamber", was written in the mid-eighteenth century.Cao Xueqin is the author of the famous Chinese work "Dream of the Red Chamber".Extant handwritten copies of this work—some 80 chapters—had been in circulation in Beijing shortly after Cao's death, before Gao Ê, who claimed to have access to the former's working papers, published a complete 120-chapter version in 1792.