Chinese literature

Book Reviews

• Cao Xueqin: The Story of the Stone**
  - the great Chinese novel, aka The Dream of the Red Chamber
• Eileen Chang: Love in a Fallen City
  - novellas about women in 1930s Hong Kong and Shanghai
• Glen Dudbridge: Lost Books of Medieval China*
  - learning from the reconstruction of lost texts
• Feng Menglong: Stories from a Ming Collection
  The Art of the Chinese Storyteller
• Xiaolu Guo: Village of Stone
  - a childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village
• Han Shaogong: A Dictionary of Maqiao*
  - a pointillist novel of rural China
• Patrick Hanan: The Chinese Vernacular Story
  - Feng Menglong, Ling Menchu, Li Yu, ...
• Patrick Hanan: Falling in Love
  Stories From Ming China
• David Hawkes: A Little Primer of Tu Fu*
  - an introduction to classical Chinese poetry
• David Hinton: The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-jan
  - nature poetry by the great Tang poet
• André Lévy: Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical*
  - an overview, with extracts, in just 150 pages
• Li Ang: The Butcher's Wife
  - a young Chinese woman is driven to madness and murder
• Li Yu: The Carnal Prayer Mat*
  - the classic Chinese erotic novel
• Ling Mengchu: The Lecherous Academician
  - four stories from Ming China
• Ma Jian: The Noodle Maker
  - dark tales of love and violence in "Open Door" China
• Shen Congwen: Imperfect Paradise*
  - short stories paint a portrait of China before the Revolution
• Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong: Outlaws of the Marsh
  - an abridgement of the classic Chinese novel
• Yang Ye: Vignettes From the Late Ming
  A Hsiao-p'in Anthology

See also: China | Japanese literature | Korean literature | world literature

See the China category for novels set in China.