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Wuxia ( 武俠 [ù.ɕjǎ], literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television ...
The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC. Prominent examples include the Four Books and Five Classics in the Neo-Confucian tradition, themselves an abridgment of the Thirteen Classics. The Chinese classics used a form of written Chinese ...
The Classic of Mountains and Seas, also known as Shanhai jing ( Chinese: 山海经 ), [ 1] formerly romanized as the Shan-hai Ching, [ 2] is a Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography [ 3][ 4] and beasts. Early versions of the text may have existed since the 4th century BCE, [ 5][ 6] but the present form was not reached until ...
Concubinage in China traditionally resembled marriage in that concubines were recognized sexual partners of a man and were expected to bear children for him. Unofficial concubines ( Chinese: 婢妾; pinyin: bì qiè) were of lower status, and their children were considered illegitimate. The English term concubine is also used for what the ...
Jin Ping Mei. Jin Ping Mei ( Chinese: 金瓶梅 )—translated into English as The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus —is a Chinese novel of manners composed in vernacular Chinese during the latter half of the 16th century during the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Consisting of 100 chapters, it was published under the pseudonym ...
Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera. Sha Wujing, Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, and Zhu Bajie ( Journey to the West) in Shao opera. Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu ( Dream of the Red Chamber) in Yue opera. Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, and Guan Yu ( Romance of the Three Kingdoms) in Sichuan opera. Ma Lin, Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang, and Qin Ming ( Water Margin) in ...
The history of Chinese literature[ 1] extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han (202 BC – 220 AD) and Tang (618–907 AD) dynasties were considered golden ages of poetry, while the Song (960–1279 ...
A recent collection, for example, Zhiguai: Chinese True Tales of the Paranormal and Glitches in the Matrix, edited by Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum, offers examples of the creative nonfiction stream of zhiguai and connects them to the more-recent genre of glitch-in-the-matrix tales.