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Chinese literature during the Song period contained a range of many different genres and was enriched by the social complexity of the period. Although the earlier Tang dynasty is viewed as the zenith era for Chinese poetry (particularly the shi style poetry of Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi), there were important poetic developments by famous poets of the Song era, with the flourishing of the ci form ...
The Song dynasty was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy. This dynasty saw the first surviving records of the chemical formula for gunpowder, the invention of gunpowder weapons such as fire arrows, bombs, and the fire lance.
He was the director of the Department of History and then Institute of History, Chinese Culture University. He also was the fourth president of Chinese Culture University. Sung was a famous historian especially in the field of Song Dynasty history. On 22 March 2007, Sung died in Taipei, Taiwan, from a car accident.
The poets of the Song dynasty drew on a long tradition of poetry in China, particularly upon forms prevalent in the Tang dynasty, together with influences from Central Asia.The ci form is especially associated with the Sung dynasty period shows signs of development toward the end of the Tang dynasty and the period of disunity immediately before the Song dynasty, especially as exemplified in ...
Chinese American literature written of the 20th century is written almost exclusively in English. Edith Maude Eaton , writing as Sui Sin Far , was one of the first Chinese American authors to publish fiction in English, although her works, first published in the teens, were not re-discovered and re-printed until 1995. [ 5 ]
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Song poetry is poetry of the Chinese Song dynasty (sometimes referred to as the "Sung Dynasty" in older sources). It may also refer to: Song poem, song lyrics set to music for a fee in 20th century North America; Sung poetry, poetry that is sung