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This is a list of Chinese writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The first two known history books about Chinese literature were published by Japanese authors in the Japanese language. [80] Kojō Tandō wrote the 700 page Shina bungakushi (支那文学史; "History of Chinese Literature"), published in 1897. Sasakawa Rinpū wrote the second ever such book in 1898, also called Shina bungakushi. [81]
Special issues include one on women's writing (issues 27 & 28, 1987) by writers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the first anthology of Hong Kong literature in any language (issues 29 & 30, 1988); Chinese Impressions of the West (issues 53 & 54, 2000), which presents the experience and observations of those who journeyed to the West in the 19th century, as well as the impressions and ...
East Asian literature is the diverse writings from the East Asian nations, China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. Literature from this area emerges as a distinct and unique field of prose and poetry that embodies the cultural, social and political factors of each nation.
Traditionally, fiction and drama were not held in high regard in the Chinese and East Asian literary culture, [20] and they were generally not seen as true "literature" by the literati who dominated intellectual life. [1] Writers in these forms did not have the same level of prestige as poets or scholars of Chinese classics. The late Ming and ...
Pai Hsien-yung, Chinese Muslim writer; Gary Pak, author of Children of a Fireland: A Novel (2004) and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories (2005) Greg Pak; Ty Pak, author of A Korean Decameron: Tales of the Yi Dynasty (1961), Guilt Payment (1983), Cry Korea Cry (1999), Moonbay: Short Stories (1999), Dear, Daughter (2017) and Moonbay: Short ...
Hong Kong literature is 20th-century and subsequent writings from or about Hong Kong or by writers from Hong Kong, primarily in the poetry, performance, and fiction media. Hong Kong literature reflects the area's unique history during the 20th century as a fusion of British colonial, Cantonese, and sea-trading culture.
Mo Yan's ability to convey traditionalist values inside of his mythical realism writing style in The Old Gun has allowed insight and view into the swift modernization of China. This short story by Mo Yan was an exemplary example of the "Xungen movement" Chinese literary