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Internet Archive free online HERE. A cogent summary, though superseded on some points. Hegel, Robert E. (1994). "Traditional Chinese Fiction—the State of the Field". The Journal of Asian Studies. 53 (2): 394– 426. doi:10.2307/2059840. JSTOR 2059840. S2CID 163011311. —— (1998). Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China. Stanford ...
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 .
Sanguozhi Pinghua, published between 1321 and 1323. A huaben (Chinese: 话本; pinyin: huàben) is a Chinese short- or medium-length story or extended novella written mostly in vernacular language, sometimes including simple classical language.
Chinese literature is increasingly available in translation- there are now several well-established websites sharing information, for example, Paper Republic, Writing Chinese, Chinese Short Stories, My Chinese Books, Chinese Books for Young Readers.
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 Four Books (四書; Sìshū) are Chinese classic texts illustrating the core value and belief systems in Confucianism. They were selected by intellectual Zhu Xi in the Song dynasty to serve as general introduction to Confucian thought, and they were, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, made the core of the official curriculum for the civil ...
Water Margin, also called Outlaws of the Marsh or All Men Are Brothers, [note 1] is a Chinese novel from the Ming dynasty that is one of the preeminent Classic Chinese Novels. Attributed to Shi Nai'an , Water Margin was one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin Chinese .
Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It is known for its psychological scope and its observation of the worldview, aesthetics, lifestyles, and social relations of High Qing China.