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.

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Women, Seated
Ghost Music
长安的荔枝
Đêm Trường Tăm Tối
Land of Big Numbers
City of Fiction
Rouge Street: Three Novellas
太白金星有点烦
If You Are Lonely and You Know It (Currency)
A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge
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
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Outlaws of the Marsh (4-Volume Boxed Set)
The Analects
Love in a Fallen City
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
Dream of the Red Chamber
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
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
Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating Vol. 1 by Jiang Zi BeiI Can Do It Vol. 1 by Jiang Zi BeiGuide on How to Fail at Online Dating Vol. 2 by Jiang Zi BeiGuide on How to Fail at Online Dating Vol. 3 by Jiang Zi BeiDemon Venerable Also Wants to Know Vol. 1 by Cyan Wings
Hai Tang Book's
11 books — 2 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-Body Problem by Liu CixinThe Dark Forest by Liu CixinDeath's End by Liu Cixin仰望星空之遥远的问候 by Bryant JohnsonVagabonds by Hao Jingfang
Chinese Science Fiction Novels
19 books — 24 voters

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


Xiaolu Guo
Huizi barely called anyone. He didn't get too involved with the details of his friends' lives. He was private, shut tight like a fortress. His short crew-cut and refined manners gave him the air of a Buddhist monk. Huizi would say never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back. ...more
Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

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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