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 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

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 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

The Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinTo Live by Yu HuaWolf Totem by Jiang RongBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieThe Four Books by Yan Lianke
Modern Chinese Literature
80 books — 38 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


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Belonging isn't about where you're from; it's about where you're understood, and sometimes, that place doesn't exist on a map. ...more
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Qiu Xiaolong
Once again, Judge Dee wished he too could write a poem like hers, but he had reached an age, he told himself, when he could admit what was beyond him. So many years he had wasted playing politics, which, unlike poetry, would not survive him.
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