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In syntax, Classical Chinese words are not restrictively categorized into parts of speech: nouns used as verbs, adjectives used as nouns, and so on. There is no copula in Classical Chinese; 是 (shì) is a copula in modern Chinese but in old Chinese it was originally a near demonstrative ('this'), the modern Chinese equivalent of which is 這 ...
Pages from a printed edition of the 17th century novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (translated as The Bonds of Matrimony and others) written by Xizhou Sheng, one of the longest Chinese novels of the time at over a million words. Chinese fiction was rooted in the official histories and such less formal works as A New Account of the Tales of the World ...
Words of Chinese origin have entered European languages, including English. Most of these were direct loanwords from various varieties of Chinese.However, Chinese words have also entered indirectly via other languages, particularly Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, that have all used Chinese characters at some point and contain a large number of Chinese loanwords.
This is a comprehensive list of all articles which pertain to classical works of Chinese literature. See Chinese classic texts, Chinese poetry, Chinese literature
Many early Chinese texts were composed before the End of the Han dynasty in 220 CE. They involved numerous Confucian classics, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, alongside poetry, dictionaries, histories and surveys on topics such as mathematics, astronomy, music and medicine, among others.
The literary critic and sinologist Andrew H. Plaks writes that the term "classic novels" in reference to these six titles is a "neologism of twentieth-century scholarship" that seems to have come into common use under the influence of C. T. Hsia's The Classic Chinese Novel (1968).
For articles on words and phrases related to a specific area of China, or to a specific spoken variant, please refer to one of the subcategories. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
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