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Short Chinese literary works, including those falling in the short story and tale genre. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (2 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Chinese short story collections" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
[1]: 230 They are some of the earliest Chinese literature written in the form of short and medium-length stories and have provided valuable inspiration plot-wise and in other ways for fiction and drama in later eras. Many were preserved in the 10th-century anthology, Taiping Guangji (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era). [2]
Inside chapter one of Huanxi Yuanjia. Huanxi Yuanjia (traditional Chinese: 歡喜冤家; simplified Chinese: 欢喜冤家), [a] also translated into English as Enemies Enamoured, [1] [b] Enemies in Love, [3] and Lovers and Foes, [4] is a late Ming dynasty Chinese short story collection by a writer under the pseudonym Xihu yuyin zhuren (西湖漁隱主人).
A scene from Min Qiji's multi-colored woodblock printing album depicting scenes from the play. Romance of the Western Chamber (traditional Chinese: 西廂記; simplified Chinese: 西厢记; pinyin: Xīxiāng Jì; Wade–Giles: Hsi-hsiang-chi), also translated as The Story of the Western Wing, The West Chamber, Romance of the Western Bower and similar titles, is one of the most famous Chinese ...
"Medicine" (Chinese: 藥; pinyin: Yào) is a short story by Chinese writer Lu Xun (Lu Hsun). Written in 1919, it was published in 1922 as part of Call to Arms, a collection of short stories penned by the writer. The story recounts the tale of Old Chuan and his wife, whose son is dying from tuberculosis.
The story can be read as a sardonic attack on traditional Chinese culture and society and a call for a new cultural direction. "Diary of a Madman" is the opening story in Lu Xun's first collection, and has often been referred to as "China's first modern short story". [2]
"The Fighting Cricket" (simplified Chinese: 促织; traditional Chinese: 促織; pinyin: Cùzhi) is a short story by Pu Songling first published in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Set in a society whose emperor has an obsession with fighting crickets, the story follows a boy who metamorphoses into one such cricket to save his father.