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7 unusual facts about Chinese literature


Chinese Cultural Renaissance

# To reissue Chinese classic literary works and translate important works with a view toward disseminating Chinese culture abroad.

Chōgorō Kaionji

On graduadtion in 1926, he initially returned to Kagoshima as a high school teacher of Japanese and Chinese literature.

Okura Kihachiro

The museum houses 2,000 pieces of Oriental paintings and sculptures, including such national treasures as the wooden statue of Samantabhadra and 35,000 volumes of Chinese literature.

Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven

The Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven is an early textually extant narrative case of Chinese biography stressing a particular heroic human, though biography, apparently fantastic or considered credible, is a chief format of Chinese literature from its outset with focus on sovereigns and their exploits, particularly with governmental preoccupation with geography through the peripheries of the emergent Chinese state.

Yoshimi Takeuchi

Takeuchi formed a highly successful Chinese literature study group with Taijun Takeda in 1934 and this is regarded as the beginning of modern Sinology in Japan.

Together they formed the Chinese Literature Research Society (Chugoku Bungaku Kenkyukai) and in 1935, they published an official organ for the group, Chugoku Bungaku Geppo in order to open up the study of contemporary Chinese literature as opposed to the "old-style" Japanese Sinology.

Yunzi

Yunzi also appeared frequently in Chinese literature as the subject of a number of verses penned over the years, being mentioned in works such as Ming Yi Tong Zhi (Ming Dynasty Comprehensive Geographic Survey) and Travels of Xu Xiake, both of which favored the yongzi.


Daiwie Fu

His areas of research are gender and sexuality related to modern medicine in Taiwan and biji and the cultural history of science in the Song Dynasty.

Édouard Biot

When this project was completed in 1833, he decided to enjoy the independence he had gained to study the Chinese language and literature.


see also

Chuban

The Chuban tribes, or "Weak Huns", took advantage of Uar (Hephthalites) weakness and conquered Zhetysu, where they established the principality of Chuban (in Chinese literature commonly called Yueban), which existed until the 480s AD.

Jiang Kanghu

Jiang’s off-handed quotations from Chinese literature and poetry led to a collaboration on a translation of the canonical anthology, Three Hundred Tang Poems.

Li Jianguo

Born in Juancheng County, Shandong Province, Li graduated from department of Chinese literature of Shandong University, and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1971.

Luo Yijun

Luo attended Chinese Culture University, where he studied Chinese literature, and later earned a master's degree in theater from Taipei National University of the Arts.

Mu Shiying

He was born in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang and studied Chinese literature at Shanghai Guanghua University (上海光華大學).

Nanjing University Literature School

Gao Ming (高明), a literary historian, the first doctoral professor in Chinese Literature, in Taiwan

Newman Prize for Chinese Literature

The Newman Prize for Chinese Literature was established in 2008 by Peter Gries, director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma.

Qing poetry

Over the course of its reign, the Qing integration with Chinese culture included the continuation of Chinese literature and Classical Chinese poetry.

Richard Douglas Lane

He later received a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii in Japanese and Chinese literature, and continued his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a master's degree and a Ph.D in 18th-century Japanese literature.

Shi Tiesheng

In selecting it as a notable work of Chinese literature since 1949 which could qualify as an overlooked classic, Professor Shelley W. Chan of Wittenberg University said Notes on Principles was similar to but better than Soul Mountain by Nobel Prize-winner Gao Xingjian.

Siku

Siku Quanshu, a compendium of Chinese literature completed in 1782

Xiaowu

Ruan Xiaowu, fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature

Zeitlin

Judith T. Zeitlin, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago