Your nose is as sleek as goose fat: the standard of Chinese beauty in the English tongue
In Hong Lou Meng, the straightforward description of the appearances of young women characters is highly prevalent; Cao used rhetorical devices of metaphors and similes to present abstract beauty into something visual. As English and Chinese culture and the norms of works of literature do not share...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,
2021-06.
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