CHINESE LITERATURE

China
• China is one of the world's four ancient
civilizations
• The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from
the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the
mature vernacular fiction novels that arose during the Ming
Dynasty to entertain the masses of literate Chinese
 Xia Dynasty
• is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese
history
 Shang Dynasty
• was the first with historical record
remaining inscriptions on bones and bronze
objects. Teritory was between the lower
reaches of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers
 Zhou Dynasty
• Major philosophies and religions emerged
that were the basis of Chinise belief in later
eras, such as Confucianism and Daoism.
 Qin Dynasty
• Was the first to unite China as a country under an
emperor instead a ruling clan. the first and shortest
imperial dynasty in China, Famous for great building
project like the Great Wall and Terracotta Army.
 Han Dynasty
• The longest imperial dynasty, the Han dynasty,
was known for starting silk road trade,
connecting China with Central Asia and
Europe. During the Han era, agriculture,
handicrafts and commerce developed well.
 Sui Dynasty
• It took a dynasty reminiscent of the power and
vision of the Qin Dynasty to reunite China: The
Sui dynasty set the foundation more stable
medieval age in China. It was a short, intense
dynasty, with great conquests and achievements
like Grand Canal and rebuilding of Great wall
 Tang Dynasty
• Was the golden age for poetry, painting,
Tricolored glazed pottery, and woodblock
painting.
• Wang Tao
Was a Qing
translator,reformer,political
columnist,newspaper publisher, and
fiction writer.
• books The sacred books of China.
(The text of confucianism)
• The book of change Shu Ching
• book of history Lao Tsu
• Liang Qichao was a chinese scholar,
journalist, philosopher and reformist
who lived during the late Qing dynasty
and the Early Republic of China.

• passed the Xiucai degree provincial

examination at the age of 11. Att the
age of 16 he passed the Juren second
level provincial exam and was the
youngest successful candidate at the
time.
• Yan Fu
Was a chinese scholar
and translator, most famous
for introducing estern
ideas, including Darwin's
"natural selection"
• Liu E
was a Chinese writer,
archaeologist and
poilitician of the late
Qing dynasty.
 SU MANSHU
• He later adopted Su Manshu as a Buddhist name. His
father was a Cantonese merchant, and his mother was
his father's Japanese maid. He went back to Guangdong,
China when he was five while his mother stayed in
Japan. He became a Buddhist monk three times during
his life; once at the age of 12, later in 1899, and again in
1903. He studied in Japan and traveled to many
Buddhist countries including India, and Java. He was
involved in revolutionary activity against the Qing
Dynasty writing articles and papers. He mastered many
languages — English, French, Japanese and Sanskrit. He
died at the age of 34 in Shanghai, reputedly of eating 60
meat dumplings to win a bet.
was a Chinese scholar, writer and poet. A versatile and
original scholar, he made important contributions to the
studies of ancient history, epigraphy, philology,
vernacular literature and literary theory.
• Wang Guowei
was a Chinese scholar, writer
and poet. A versatile and
original scholar, he made
important contributions to the
studies of ancient history,
epigraphy, philology,
vernacular literature and
literary theory.
• Hu Shih
was a Chinese Philosopher,
essayist and diplomat. Hu is
widely recognied today as a
key contributor to Chinese
liberialism and language
reform in his advocacy for the
us of written vernacular
Chinese.
• Lin Yutang
was a Chinese writer, translator,
linguist and inventor. His informal but
polished style in both Chinese and
English made him one of the most
influential writers of his generation,
and his compilations and translations
of classic Chinese texts into English
were bestsellers in the West.
• Mao Dun
He is one of the most
celebrated left-wing realist
novelists of modern China. His
most famous works are Ziye, a
novel depicting life in
cosmopolitan Shanghai, and
Spring Silkworms. He also
wrote many short stories.
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