Lesson 1: Chinese Literature

Ming Dynasty

What dynasty did the dynastic court poetry to the fiction novel blossomed?

Tang Dynasty

What dynasty did the establishment of woodblock printing happen?

Song Dynasty

What dynasty did the invention of a movable type of printing happen?

Book of Changes

This is one of the most important classical texts in Chinese Literature.

Book of Changes

This is a book of divination based on eight trigrams.

Zhou Dynasty

What dynasty did the Book of Changes existed?

Writes of the Warring State Period

They are the writers who attempted to explain the world and its moral principles through the commentaries found in additional sections of the text.

Classic Poetry

This is the earliest collection of poetry.

305 poems

How many poems did the Classic Poetry consist?

Classic of History

These are the collection of documents and speeches written by rulers and officials of Zhou period.

Classic of Rites

These are collection of texts that describes ancient rites and court ceremonies during the Zhou dynasty.

Spring and Autumn Annals

This is a chronological history of the state of Lu.

Spring and Autumn Annals

This contains monthly narrations of important events during the rule of the twelve leaders of Lu.

Analects of Confucius

This is a book of sayings recorded by his disciples that talks about his teachings on how to live a harmonious life and how to deal with other people.

Tang Dynasty

What dynasty did Classical Poetry reached its peak?

Lushi

This consists of eight lines with five to seven characters in each line.

Li Po (Li Bai)

He is known for the romanticism of his poems.

Tu Fu

He is a Confucian moralist.

Tang Dynasty

What dynasty did Ci form first developed?

Song Dynasty

In this dynasty, poets based Ci poetry on the tune of popular songs.

Sanqu Poetry

This is a freer form patterned on dramatic arias, lead to the development of vernacular Chinese Literature.

Spring and Autumn

These seasons/periods contributed significantly to Chinese prose style.

Mencius and Zhuang Zi

Their works demonstrated well-reasoned and carefully developed ideas and showed a remarkable improvement in style.

Mencius

He was noted for his elegant diction.

Zhuang Zi

He was revered for his use of metaphorical, anecdotal, and allegorical style.

Tang Period

This period saw the emergence of the neoclassical style of prose, which strongly influenced prose writing for the next years.

Han Yu

He was a major essayist who strongly advocated the return of Confucian orthodoxy.

After the 14th Century

When did vernacular fiction become popular?

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin

What is the greatest 18th century vernacular novel?

Late Qing Period

When did Modern Chinese Literature began?

Qing Period

This period was described as a period of active intellectual pursuits sparked by a nationalistic climate.

Qing Period

This period translated western writings that introduced new ideas and cultures, thereby resulting in the flowering of prose fiction that expressed new social and cultural roles for writers.

Li Boyuan

He was a writer who used vernacular writing for people who did not receive classical education.

Li Boyuan

His writings are focused on social and political issues during the late Qing dynasty as a reflection of the Chinese society of that period.

Liu E.

He was a writer, archeologist, and a politician who used symbolism and classical writing illustrations in his writing.

Zheng Pu

He was a novelist who used symbolism and classical literature illustrations in his writing.

Zheng Pu

During his time, he was also known as the only author who knew a different language because he know the French language.

Late Qing Dynasty

When did the new civilized drama emerged?

New Civilized Drama

This is a hybrid of Chinese operatic drama and Western-style drama.

The New Culture Movement

This saw the vernacular language being widely used and eventually displacing the classical language in all genres.

Lu Xun

He was considered the founder of modern Baihua literature.

Baihua

This literature uses colloquial language.

Socialist Realism

With the establishment of the League if the Left-Wing writers, Lu Xun, and other followers adopted the ideals of _____.

Socialist Realism

This adheres to the principle that art must depict contemporary events exposing the ills of nonsocialist society.

Maoist Era

This placed the publishing industry and the book distribution system under government control and implemented strict censorship.

Prose Fiction

What kind of fiction did most of the Post-Mao Era published?

Post-Mao Era

In this era, literary outlets were revived, literary magazines publishing translations of foreign fiction became very popular to the young generation, and writers became freer to write about sensitive matters.

Censorship

This is one of the struggles of modern writers that is implemented by the Chinese government both on Journalism and Literature.

Censorship

This struggle of modern writers blocked certain websites and banned some books from being sold in China.