Translated Chinese classic took two years to edit

LOCAL editor Zaleha Ahmad spent up to 15 hours a day for two years to edit and put together the Malay translation of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber.

Sin Chew Daily reported that she described the effort, done between 2016 and 2018, to publish the novel as Hikayat Mimpi Rumah Agam Merah as painstaking work.