Chinese Literature

Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature fictional novels that arose during the Ming Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese. The introduction of widespread woodblock printing during the Tang Dynasty (618–907) and the invention of movable type printing by Bi Sheng (990–1051) during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) rapidly spread written knowledge throughout China. In more modern times, the author Lu Xun (1881–1936) is considered the founder of baihua literature in China.

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
长安的荔枝
Women, Seated
Ghost Music
Land of Big Numbers
Rouge Street: Three Novellas
Jumpnauts
Cinema Love
太白金星有点烦
City of Fiction
Đêm Trường Tăm Tối
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
Elsewhere
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
The Art of War
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
To Live
Tao Te Ching
Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set)
Monkey: The Journey to the West
Red Sorghum
The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
Outlaws of the Marsh (4-Volume Boxed Set)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
The Analects
Love in a Fallen City
Dream of the Red Chamber
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
The Art of War by Sun TzuTao Te Ching by Lao TzuDream of the Red Chamber by Cao XueqinWild Swans by Jung ChangMonkey by Wu Cheng'en
Chinese Literature
323 books — 153 voters
A Free Life by Ha JinWar Trash by Ha JinBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe Art of War by Sun TzuWaiting by Ha Jin
Authors Born in China
18 books — 4 voters

Złota pagoda by Yukio MishimaWyznanie maski by Yukio MishimaDziennik szalonego starca by Jun'ichirō TanizakiJestem, tęsknię, mówię by Yūko TsushimaCzteroksiąg by 阎连科
Proza Dalekiego Wschodu
36 books — 6 voters
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEast of Eden by John SteinbeckLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellIt by Stephen  King
Big Fat Reads Worth The Effort 2.0
45 books — 73 voters

The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays by Richard HofstadterUbik by Philip K. DickThe Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
FOTRT essential reading
27 books — 2 voters
The Three-Inch Golden Lotus by Feng Jicai 冯骥才Panic and Deaf by Hsiao-Sheng LiangThe Remote Country of Women by Hua BaiChaos and All That by Liu SolaThe Money Demon by Chen Diexian
Fiction from Modern China series
12 books — 1 voter


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fonctionnaire chinois

Luo Guanzhong
People renowned for villainy and virtue may come from the same stock.
Luo Guanzhong, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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