Here are posts labelled "China" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Guan Moye
- Known as: Mo Yan
- Birth: February 17, 1955, Gaomi, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he is: Chinese novelist and short story writer; Red Sorghum Clan; The Republic of Wine; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; Nobel Prize in Literature (2012)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Gao Xingjian
- Birth: January 4, 1940, Ganzhou, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he is: Chinese novelist, playwright, and critic; Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (short story collection); Soul Mountain; One Man's Bible; Nobel Prize in Literature (2000)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Shu Qingchun
- Known as: Lao She
- Birth: February 3, 1899, Beijing, China
- Death: August 24, 1966, Beijing, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese novelist and dramatist; Rickshaw Boy; Teahouse
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| from a book cover |
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- Name: Wen Kang
- Known as: Yanbei Xianren (pen name)
- Dates: flourished 1821-1850
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese novelist; Ernu Yingxiong Zhuan (The Story of Hero Boys and Hero Girls; also called Thirteenth Sister)
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| from a book cover |
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- Name: Shen Fu
- Dates: 1763-1810?
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese writer; Fu Sheng Liu Ji (Six Records of a Floating Life)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Wei Yuanda
- Known as: Wei Yuan
- Birth: April 23, 1794, Shaoyang, China
- Death: August 26, 1856, Hangzhou, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese scholar; Haiguo Tuzhi (Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Gong Zizhen
- Birth: August 22, 1792, Hangzhou, China
- Death: September 26, 1841, Danyang, Jiangsu, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese poet; Jihai Zashi (Miscellaneous Poems in the Year of Ji Hai)
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| a scene from his novel |
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- Name: Li Ruzhen
- Dates: c. 1763-1830
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese novelist; Jing Hua Yuan (Flowers in the Mirror)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Yao Nai
- Dates: 1731-1815
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese scholar; Ascent of Mount Tai
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| a Tang poem |
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- Name: Sun Zhu
- Also known as: Hengtang Tuishi
- Dates: 1711-1778
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese scholar; edited Tangshi sanbai shou (Three Hundred Tang Poems)
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- Name: Yuan Mei
- Dates: 1716-1797
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese author; Zibuyu (What the Master Would Not Discuss), ghost stories; Suiyuan Shidan (Recipes from Sui Garden), a cookbook
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Cao Zhan
- Known as: Cao Xueqin (may also be spelled Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in)
- Dates: 1715 or 1724 to 1763 or 1764
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese author; Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou Meng), one of the "Four Great Classical Novels"
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Wu Jingzi
- Birth: Unknown Date, 1701, Quanjiao County, Chuzhou, China
- Death: January 11, 1754, Yangzhou, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese author; Rulin Waishi (The Scholars; literally, The Unofficial History of the Forest [ie. World] of the Literati)
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| from a German edition |
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- Name: Haoqiu Zhuan
- Also known as: The Pleasing History or The Fortunate Union
- Dates: possibly published 1683
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- What it was: a caizi jiaren or "Scholar/Beauty" novel about the love between a scholar and a beautiful girl--both of good family--a popular genre in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties; attributed to Mingjiao Zhongren (a pseudonym, maybe "Teaching-Name Man" or "Man Named Jiao).
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Kong Shangren
- Dates: 1648-1718
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese playwright; Taohua Shan (The Peach Blossom Fan), one of the "Four Great Classical Dramas"
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| a modern performance of The Palace of Eternal Life |
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- Name: Hong Sheng
- Dates: 1645-1704
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese playwright; Changsheng Dian (The Palace of Eternal Life), one of the "Four Great Classical Dramas"
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| The Monkey King Sun Wukong from Xi You Bu |
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- Name: Dong Yue
- Dates: published c. 1640
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese novelist; Xi You Bu (A Supplement to the Journey to the West)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Pu Songling
- Birth: June 5, 1640, Zibo, China
- Death: February 25, 1715, Zibo, China
- Language: Chinese
- Who he was: Chinese writer; Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio)
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| a book cover |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan
- Known as: The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World
- Dates: composed between 1618 and 1681
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- What it is: "The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World," Chinese novel attributed to "Xizhou Sheng" (a pseudonym)
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- Name: Jin Ping Mei
- Known as: The Plum in the Golden Vase
- Dates: first printed in 1610
- Place: China
- Language: Chinese
- What it is: Chinese novel attributed to "Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng" (a pseudonym)
- Included in lists (What's This?): LRP
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