Teacher rewrites hundreds of ancient stories
Some consider Huang Qiaoyan to be the Chinese equivalent of the German Brothers Grimm.
That is because the middle school teacher in Guangdong province's Dongguan...
Jia Baoyu and the Twelve Beauties of Jinling
Jia Baoyu (simplified Chinese: 贾宝玉; traditional Chinese: 賈寶玉; pinyin: Jiǎ Bǎoyù; Wade–Giles: Chia Pao-yu; Meaning: Precious Jade)
The main protagonist is about 12 or...
Life Stories of Lu Dongbin
Lü Dongbin (呂洞賓, born 796) was a Tang Dynasty Chinese scholar and poet who has been elevated to the status of an immortal in the Chinese...
中庸 – Zhong Yong
Also known as: "The state of equilibrium and harmony"
What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The...
History of a ‘scribal machine’: Jing Tsu studies the ‘systematization’ of Chinese
By Corydon Ireland, Harvard News Office April 2, 2009
Starting in the 1920s, Chinese writer Lin Yutang earned a reputation as an urbane essayist and...
Why writer Mo Yan thinks his Nobel Prize was a blessing and a curse
The Chinese novelist’s profile was massively raised by winning the literature prize, but he has struggled to write since, he says.
Chinese Nobel Prize for...
Luxun as a cultural icon
Lu Xun(鲁迅), formerly also romanized Lu Hsün, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), a leading figure...
Chinese literature
by Emily Mark
Chinese literature is some of the most imaginative and interesting in the world. The precision of the language results in perfectly realized...
Hit China Series Takes Page from BBC With Recycled Letters
“We were young and fought for the future together. As a wife, I got more loneliness from him than happiness, but as his fan,...
The Dream of the Red Chamber: translation in the west
It is a major challenge to translate Cao's prose, which utilizes many levels of colloquial and literary language and incorporates forms of classic poetry...
