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The first such book in English was A History of Chinese Literature, by Herbert Giles, published in 1901. 1904's Zhongguo wenxue shi by Lin Chuanjia was the first such history in Chinese. [80] Lin Quanjia was inspired by a 1903 translation of Sasakawa's book.
The literary critic and sinologist Andrew H. Plaks writes that the term "classic novels" in reference to these six titles is a "neologism of twentieth-century scholarship" that seems to have come into common use under the influence of C. T. Hsia's The Classic Chinese Novel.
With the publication in 1961 of A History of Modern Chinese Fiction, 1917–1957, C. T. Hsia introduced modern Chinese literature to the West by "providing a close analysis and the first English translations of writers who are now widely recognized," [10] thereby establishing "modern Chinese literature as an academic discipline in the English ...
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 .
In English, lacking an exact equivalent for the Chinese, the translation of the word shi in this regard is generally as "poem", "song", or "ode". Before its elevation as a canonical classic, the Classic of Poetry ( Shi jing ) was known as the Three Hundred Songs or the Songs .
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (traditional Chinese: 三國演義; simplified Chinese: 三国演义; pinyin: Sānguó Yǎnyì) is a 14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history , starting in 184 AD and ending with ...
Journey to the West (Chinese: 西遊記; pinyin: Xīyóu Jì) is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.It is regarded as one of the great Chinese novels, and has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia. [2]
The Zuo Zhuan has been recognized as a masterpiece of early Chinese prose and "grand historical narrative" for many centuries. [16] It has had an immense influence on Chinese literature and historiography for nearly 2000 years, [31] and was the primary text by which historical Chinese readers gained an understanding of China's ancient history. [5]