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1 Introduction
Chinese literature

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  • The Four Books (四書, S? shū) are

  • * The Great Learning, (大學, D? Xu?).

  • * The Doctrine of the Golden Mean (中庸, Zhōng Y?ng).

  • * The Analects of Confucius (論語, L?n Yǔ), a book of pithy sayings attributed to Confucius.

  • * Mencius (孟子, M?ng Zǐ).

  • The Five Classics (五經, Wǔ jīng) are

  • * The Classic of Poetry (詩經, Shī Jīng), made up of 305 poems.

  • * The Classic of History (書經, Shū Jīng) contains examples of early Chinese prose.

  • * The Book of Changes or I Ching (易經, Y? Jīng), a manual of divination based on the eight trigrams.

  • * The Classic of Rites (禮記, Lǐ J?) describes ancient rites and court ceremonies.

  • * The Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋, Chūn Qiū).

  • * The Classic of Music (樂經) is sometime referred to as the sixth classic, but is lost.

  • Other classics:

  • * The Classic of The Way and its Virtue or Tao Te Ching (道德經, Dao De Jing), attributed to Lao Zi.

  • * The True Classic of Perfect Emptiness, attributed to Lie Zi.

  • * The Classic of Filial Piety (孝經, Xiao Jing)

  • * The Three Character Classic

  • Other ancient texts

  • * Zhuang Zi

  • * The book of Xun Zi

  • *The Art of War (孙子兵法) by Sun Tzu




  • Classical Chinese poetry

  • List of Chinese language poets




  • Eight Great Literary Masters of the Tang and Song 唐宋八大家

  • *Han Yu 韓愈

  • *Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元

  • *Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修

  • *Su Xun 蘇洵

  • *Su Shi 蘇軾

  • *Su Zhe 蘇轍

  • *Wang Anshi 王安石

  • *Zeng Gong 曾鞏

  • Ming dynasty

  • * Song Lian (1310-1381)

  • * Liu Ji (1311-1375)

  • * Gui Yiuguang (1506-1571)

  • * Yuan Hongdao ( 1568-1610)

  • * Xu Xiake (1586-1641)

  • * Gao Qi 高启

  • * Zhang Dai 张岱

  • * Tu Long 屠隆

  • * Liu Ji

  • * Wen Zhenheng文震亨

  • Qing dynasty

  • * Fang Pao (1668-1749)

  • * Liu Daqui (1698-1779)

  • * Yiao Nai (1731-1815)

  • * Yuan Mu (1716-1798)

  • * Gong Zhizhen (1792-1841)

  • * Wei Yuan (1794-1857)




See List of Chinese language novelists

  • The Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦, also known as A Dream of Red Mansions or The Chronicles of the Stone (石頭記, Sh?t?u J?), by 曹雪芹 Cao Xueqin|C?o Xuěq?n

  • Water Margin (水浒传), also known as All Men Are Brothers and Outlaws of the Marsh), by 施耐庵 Shi Naian|Shī N?i'ān

  • The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三国演义) by 罗贯中 Luo Guanzhong|Lu? Gu?nzhōng

  • The Journey to the West (西游记), also known as Monkey King and Monkey, by 吴承恩 Wu Cheng'en|W? Ch?ng'ēn.

The above 4 classics are often called the Si Da Ming Zhu or the Four Classics.

  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (聊齋志異) by 蒲松齡 Pu Songling|P? Sōngl?ng.

  • Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅), by 蘭陵笑笑生 Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng|L?nl?ng Xi?oxi?oshēng.




  • 王韬 Wang Tao (1828-1897)

  • 嚴 復 Yan Fu (1853 - 1924)

  • 劉 鶚 Liu E (1857 - 1909)

  • 梁啟超 Liang Qichao (1873-1929)

  • 王 國 維 Wang Guowei (1877 - 1927)

  • 胡适 Hu Shih (1891-1962)

  • 蘇 曼 殊 Su Manshu (1894 - 1918)

  • 魯 迅 Lu Xun (1881 - 1936)

  • 許 地 山 Xu Dishan (1893 - 1941)

  • 叶圣陶 Ye Shengtao (1894-1988)

  • 林語堂 Lin Yutang (1895 - 1976)

  • 茅 盾 Mao Dun (1896 - 1981)

  • 徐 志 摩 Xu Zhimo (1896 - 1936)

  • 郁 達 夫 Yu Dafu (1896 - 1945)

  • Wang Tongzhao (1897-1957)

  • 郭 沫 若 Guo Moruo (1892 - 1978)

  • 老 舍 Lao She (1897 - 1966)

  • 朱 自 清 Zhu Ziqing (1898 - 1948)

  • 田 漢 Tian Han (1898 - 1968)

  • Feng Zhikai (1898-1975)

  • 聞 一 多 Wen Yiduo (1899 - 1946)

  • Yu Pinbo (1900-1990)

  • 冰心 Bing Xin (1900 - 1999)

  • 巴 金 Ba Jin (1905 - )

  • 沈 從 文 Shen Congwen (1902 - 1988)

  • 曹 禺 Cao Yu (1905- )

  • 錢鐘書 Qian Zhongshu (1910 - 1988)

  • He Qifang (1912-1977)

  • 张爱玲 Eileen Chang (1920 - 1995)

  • 汪曾祺 Wang Zengqi (1920 - 1997)

  • 金庸 Jinyong (1924 - )

  • 高行健 Gao Xingjian, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2000 (1940 - )

  • 铁凝 Tie Ning (1957 - )




  • 林海音 Lin Haiyin (1918 - 2001)

  • Qiu Xuxu Singapore

  • 白先勇 Bai Xianyong (1937 - )

  • You Jin, Singapore




<!--these are really English literature-->
Chinese writers writing in English:

  • Amy Tan

  • Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Ha Jin




  • List of Chinese authors

  • Chinese art

  • Chinese language

  • Chinese mythology

  • Chinese classic texts

  • Chinese culture

  • Tea Classics


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