Chinese Literature

This is the homepage for Chinese Literature, a subcategory of World Literature.

Authors:

• Wu Ch’eng-en
• Ssu-ma Chi’en
• Pa Chin
• Chuang Chou
• Po Chu-i
• Tu Fu
• Ts’ao Hsueh-ch’in
• Lu Hsun
• Lo Kuan-chung
• Li Po
• Lao She
• Hu Shih
• Lao Tzu
• Wang Wei
• Gao Xingjian
• Cao Xueqin
• Ch’u Yuan

Unknown Authorship

Five Classics

Confucian canon established in Han dynasty

Book of Odes

• Shih ching
• 305 songs

Book of Changes

• I ching
• Changes of Chou
• 65 hexagrams used for fortune-telling
• edited by Confucius

Book of Rites

• Li chi
• texts about ritual and behavior

Book of Documents

• shu ching
• history dating to first half of Chou dynasty

Spring and Autumn Annals

• Ch’un ch’iu
• chronicle of Lu feudal state 722-481 BC
• dry

The Golden Lotus

The story of Hsi-men Ch’ing and his six wives