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Cover of a 1926 edition Cover of a 1930 edition. Sinking (simplified Chinese: 沉沦; traditional Chinese: 沉淪; pinyin: Chénlún) is a novella written by Yu Dafu.The story was completed in Tokyo in 1921 and later published in a collection named Sinking in Shanghai the same year. [1]
Wang Changling (Chinese: 王昌齡; pinyin: Wáng Chānglíng; 698–756) was a major Tang dynasty poet. His courtesy name was Shaobo ( 少伯 ). He was originally from Taiyuan in present-day Shanxi province, according to the editors of the Three Hundred Tang Poems , although other sources claim that he was actually from Jiangning near modern ...
In Chinese poetry, a duilian (simplified Chinese: 对 联; traditional Chinese: 對 聯; pinyin: duìlián ⓘ) is a pair of lines of poetry which adhere to certain rules (see below). Outside of poems, they are usually seen on the sides of doors leading to people's homes or as hanging scrolls in an interior.
[1]: 230 They are some of the earliest Chinese literature written in the form of short and medium-length stories and have provided valuable inspiration plot-wise and in other ways for fiction and drama in later eras. Many were preserved in the 10th-century anthology, Taiping Guangji (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era). [2]
The poem "Li Sao" is in the Chuci collection and is traditionally attributed to Qu Yuan [a] of the Kingdom of Chu, who died about 278 BCE.. Qu Yuan manifests himself in a poetic character, in the tradition of Classical Chinese poetry, contrasting with the anonymous poetic voices encountered in the Shijing and the other early poems which exist as preserved in the form of incidental ...
Yang Jingru (Chinese: 杨静如; 12 September 1919 – 27 January 2023), [2] known as Yang Yi (杨苡), was a Chinese translator of literary works.Her translation of Wuthering Heights, called Huxiao Shanzhuang, was reprinted many times since 1980, [3] and is regarded as a classic and authoritative translation in China. [4]
"Wang Liulang" (Chinese: 王六郎; pinyin: Wáng Liùláng), also translated as "Sixth Brother Wang", is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. The story follows a Chinese fisherman's friendship with the title character , a water spirit who has to drown a human being in the river in which he is ...
Wu Shuang Pu (Chinese: 無雙譜; lit. 'Table of Peerless Heroes') is a book of woodcut prints, first printed in 1694, early on in the Qing dynasty.This book contains the biographies and imagined portraits of 40 notable heroes and heroines from the Han dynasty to the Song dynasty, all accompanied by a brief introduction and guided by a related poem in yuefu style.