Chinese literature

philosophy in the Chinese cultural sphere

literary works in Chinese language

book of selected statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong

books of Confucianism

Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and myth

Chinese encyclopedia completed in 1725

Chinese encyclopedia compiled between 977 and 983

Chinese writer

ancient literary criticism and annotation of the Water Classic, a work concerning the geography of ancient China

collection of stories compiled in the early Song dynasty in China

Poetical art developed in China

commentary on Spring and Autumn Annals

4th-century CE Chinese compilation of legends and stories

Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals

essay in Chinese imperial examinations

song dynasty leishu

series of books written by Xi Jinping

forensic science handbook, by Song Ci (Southern Song dynasty)

four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China: Qinghai Lake (west), East China Sea (east), Lake Baikal (north) and South China Sea (south)

literary work

subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction

literary work

collection of Chinese folklore, plays and novels based on a military family from the Song Dynasty

The Taixuanjing is a divination guide composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE18 CE) in the decade prior to the fall of the Western Han dynasty. The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE; during the Jin dynasty, an otherwise unknown person named Fan Wang () salvaged the text and wrote a commentary on it, from which our text survives today.

public art museum in Tainan, Taiwan

Chinese poet, calligrapher (1883-1971)

thumb|291px|Sanguozhi Pinghua, published between 1321 and 1323 A huaben () is a Chinese short- or medium-length story or extended novella written mostly in vernacular language, sometimes including simple classical language. In contrast to a full-length Chinese novel, it is generally not divided into chapters and recounts a limited number of characters or events, although some huaben fictions, such as Sanguozhi Pinghua, contain upwards of some 80,000 Chinese characters. The earliest huaben are reported in the 12th century during the Song dynasty, but the genre did not see its true artistic and

organization of writers formed in Shanghai, China

piece of writing written by the Chinese poet Su Shi in 1082

Historical description of holidays in China

4th century Chinese mythological / historical treatise compiled by Wang Jia

literary work by Chen Yuanjing

Jianghu () is a Chinese term that generally refers to the social environment in which many Chinese wuxia, xianxia, and ''gong'an stories are set. The term is used flexibly, and can be used to describe a fictionalized version of imperial China (usually using loose influences from across the 221 BC – 1912 AD period of time); a setting of feuding martial arts clans and the people of that community; a secret and possibly criminal underworld; a general sense of the "mythic world" where fantastical stories happen; or some combination thereof. A closely related term, wulin'' (武林; wǔlín; 'martia

type of cipai

Legend in Guangzhou, China

Chinese encyclopedia completed in 631

Chinese encyclopedia

book by Lu Xun

Collection of Chinese texts synthesizing Islam and Confucianism

Tang dynasty writer

ancient song in an unknown language of southern China

sutra, attributed to a translation by Kumārajīva but actually composed in China, that synthesizes Confucianism and Buddhist teachings and refutes the criticism that monasticism undermines filial piety

ancient Chinese school of thought

Xinxu (; "New arrangements") is a collection of stories from the period of the Spring and Autumn Annals up to the Han dynasty, predominantly of historical content, compiled by Liu Xiang 刘向 in the time of the Former Han dynasty. page=5|500px|thumb|Liu Xiang Xinxu mulu 刘向新序目录 (table of contents) - National Central Library|National Central Library ROC Originally consisting of 30 scrolls, only 10 have survived, containing a total of 166 passages.

collection of supernatural stories

thumb|200px|page=8|Pages from a printed edition, from the University of Washington Libraries thumb|200px|Guiguzi as illustrated in the book《仙佛奇踪》in AD 1602 Guiguzi (), also called Baihece (), is a collection of ancient Chinese texts compiled between the late Warring States period and the end of the Han dynasty. The work, between 6,000 and 7,000 Chinese characters, discusses techniques of rhetoric. Although originally associated with the School of Diplomacy, the Guiguzi was later integrated into the Daoist canon.

subgenre of Chinese crime fiction involving government magistrates who solve criminal cases

Hong Kong intellectual magazine

Laotong () is a type of relationship in Chinese culture formerly practiced in Hunan that bonded two girls together for eternity as kindred sisters.

Pianwen () is a highly stylised prose style, prevalent throughout the history of Chinese literature. Its prominent features lie in its regular lines arranged in couplets; in its early history, these lines were mostly of either four or six characters, and so pianwen are also known as Four-Six Prose ().

Chinese shenmo novel

collection of short stories

Chinese literary genre recording personal insights, experiences and trifles, consisting of scattered stories, anecdotes, quotations, random musings, philological speculations, literary criticism, etc.

Chinese history book

Chinese literature collection

genre of speculative fiction

literary movement in Tang and Song dynasty China

book of statements from speeches by Xi Jinping

collection of articles from ancient periods (Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, and six of the Southern dynasties), compiled by Kejun Yan (1762-1843)