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...
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...
The Flourishing of Poetry in the Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) Dynasties
The Tang (618-906) and Song (960-1279) dynasties were the golden ages of Chinese classical literature in general, and poetry in particular. Poets of these periods,...
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...
Literature about the Yellow Crane Tower
The yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City is top of the four most famous ancient towers or pavilions in China. The following two poems...
Learn about the “biggest” book in China
The Siku Quanshu, variously translated as the Complete Library in Four Sections, Imperial Collection of Four, Emperor's Four Treasuries, Complete Library in Four Branches...
Lin Daiyu
Lin Daiyu (林黛玉; Pinyin: Lín Dàiyù) is one of the principal characters of Cao Xueqin's classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. She...
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night
Zhang Ruoxu (張若虛) was a Chinese poet of the early Tang dynasty from Yangzhou in modern Jiangsu province. He is best known for "Spring...
Chinese literature: classical texts
The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the mature vernacular fiction novels that arose...
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...
