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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.
Stories Old and New (Chinese: 古今小說), also known by its later name Stories to Enlighten the World (喻世明言), is a collection of short stories by Feng Menglong during the Ming dynasty. It was published in Suzhou in 1620. It is considered to be pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. [1]
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).
"The Wolf of Zhongshan" (Chinese: 中山狼傳; pinyin: Zhōngshān Láng Zhuàn) is a popular Chinese tale that deals with the ingratitude of a creature after being saved. . The first print of the story is found in the Ming-dynasty Ocean Stories of Past and Present (Chinese: 古今說海; pinyin: Gǔjīn Shuōhǎi) published in 1544.
Chinese short fiction characterized by: publication generally falling after the establishment of the Republic of China (1912). use of vernacular Chinese, in place of the classical language used in Chinese classic novels, as advocated by proponents of the New Culture Movement, notably Hu Shi.
Cover of a 1566 edition of Taiping Guangji. The Taiping Guangji (Chinese: 太平廣記), sometimes translated as the Extensive Records of the Taiping Era, or Extensive Records of the Taiping Xinguo Period, is a collection of stories compiled in the early Song dynasty.
In the story, a student who has failed the examination many times meets a Taoist monk who gives him a porcelain pillow. When the student receives the pillow, the owner of the inn is cooking rice. The student sleeps on the pillow and dreams that he successfully becomes a Jinshi in the exams and is made an official, but is later exiled because of ...