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A seminal exploration of "literati novels". Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin (or, Men of the Marshes), Journey to the West, and Golden Lotus (or Plum in a Golden Vase). Rolston, David L. & Shuen-fu Lin (1990). How to Read the Chinese Novel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691067538. 534 p.
The Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (Chinese: 醒世姻緣傳; pinyin: Xǐngshì Yīnyuán Zhuàn; lit. 'The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World'), also translated as Marriage Destinies to Awaken the World, The Bonds of Matrimony, A Marriage to Awaken the World and A Romance to Awaken the World, is a Chinese classic novel of the late Ming or early Qing dynasty.
Danmei (Chinese: 耽美; pinyin: dānměi; lit. 'indulging beauty') is a Chinese genre of literature and other fictional media that features romantic relationships between male characters. Danmei is typically created by and targeted towards heterosexual female audiences. [ 1 ]
Title page of the novel Ping Shan Leng Yan Title page of the novel Haoqiu zhuan. Caizi jiaren (Chinese: 才子佳人; pinyin: cáizǐ jiārén; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai-tzu chia-jen; lit. 'scholar–beauty' [1] [2] and "scholar and beauty") [a] is a genre of Chinese fiction typically involving a romance between a young scholar and a beautiful girl.
Title page of the novel Dingqing ren A page of the novel. Dingqing ren (Chinese: 定情人; 'A Lover's Promise'), [1] also translated into English as A Love-Promise [2] and The Worthy Lovers, [3] is a Chinese romantic novel of the caizi jiaren genre [4] from the mid-17th century.
Ruyijun zhuan (如意君傳), [a] translated into English as The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction, [2] [3] [4] is a Chinese erotic novella written in the Ming dynasty by an unknown author. Set in the Tang dynasty, it follows the political career and love life of Empress Wu Zetian. One of the earliest erotic novels published in China, it was ...
The opening of the novel Wu Mei Yuan from a printed edition. Wu Mei Yuan [1] or Wumei yuan [2] (traditional Chinese: 五美緣; simplified Chinese: 五美缘), translated into English as the Destinies of Five Beauties, [3] is a Chinese romantic novel of the early 19th-century during the Qing dynasty.