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Antiquity, Qin, Han and pre-Tang dynasties

Jump to: navigation, search The Qin Dynasty (秦朝 Pinyin Qín, Wade-Giles Chin; 221 BC - 207 BC) was preceded by the Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. ... Jump to: navigation, search Han commanderies and kingdoms AD 2. ... Qu Yuan (Simplified Chinese: 屈原; Traditional Chinese: 屈原; Pinyin: qū yúan) (340 BC - 278 BC) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring States Period. ... BC may stand for: Ballistic Coefficient  a measure of air drag on a projectile by calculating a ratio its sectional density to its coefficient of form. ... Song Yu (Simplified Chinese: 宋玉) was a well-known Chinese poet in the State of Chu during the third century BCE. He is commonly said to be a nephew of Qu Yuan, but no reliable biographical information is available (He is also said to be a student of Qu Yuan). ... Jump to: navigation, search Sima Qian (circa 145—90 BC) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史令) of the Han Dynasty. ... Sima Xiangru (179 - 117 BC) was a Chinese writer. ... Ban Gu (班固, Wade-Giles Pan Ku) was a 1st century Chinese historian. ... Replica of Zhang Hengs seismograph Zhang Heng (張衡) (AD 78–AD 139) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, artist and literary scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty of China. ... Cao Cao (155 – 220), whose name is also often transliterated as Tsao Tsao, was a regional warlord and the last Chancellor of Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China. ... Cáo PÄ« (曹丕, 187 - 226), born in Qiao County, Pei presently Bozhou city in An Hui Province. ... Cao Zhi (192 – 232) was a Chinese poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. ... Xi Kang (嵇康) (223-262) was a Chinese author, poet, Taoist philosopher, and alchemist. ... Pinyin Lu Ji or Lu Chi (261-303C.E.) was a chinese writer and literary critic from the Kingdom of Wu in south China. ... Categories: People stubs | Chinese poets ... Xie Lingyun, 謝靈運 (385-422) was a Chinese author. ...

Tang Dynasty and following

Jump to: navigation, search Also the name of a rock band. ... Han-Shan (寒山，translated into English as Cold Mountain) was a Chinese Tang era poet in the Taoist/Zen tradition, honored as a Bodhisattva. ... Meng Haoran (孟浩然) (Pinyin Mèng Hàorán) (689 or 691 - 740) was a Chinese poet during the Tang dynasty. ... This article is about the 8th century Chinese poet; other Wang Weis are Wang Wei (17th century poet) and Wang Wei (pilot). ... Jump to: navigation, search Li Bai or Li Po (701-762) was a Chinese poet living during the Tang Dynasty. ... There are no contemporaneous portraits of Du Fu; this is a later artists impression Du Fu or Tu Fu (杜甫; pinyin: Dù FÇ”; Wade-Giles: Tu⁴ Fu³), also known as Dù Shàolíng (杜少陵) or Dù Gōngbù (杜工部) (712–770) was a prominent Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. ... Hán Yù (韓愈) (768 - 824), was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet. ... Bai Juyi (白居易; pinyin: Bái Jūyì; Wade-Giles: Pai Chü-i), or Bo Juyi (pinyin: Bó Jūyì; WG. Po Chü-i) (772 - 846) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. ... Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元) (773 - 819) was a Chinese writer who lived in Changan in the Tang dynasty. ... Pinyin Yuan Zhen (779 to 831) was an important Chinese writer in the middle Tang Dynasty. ... Li He (李賀 790-816), with the courtesy name of Changji (長吉), is a short-lived Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, famous for his unconventional and imaginative style. ... Du Mu (杜牧, pinyin: Dù Mù, 803 - 852) was a leading realistic Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty. ... Li Shangyin, 李商隱 (between 810 and 813- 858), was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, born in Huizhou in Hunan province. ... Li Houzhu (李後主; pinyin: lǐ hòu zhÇ”) (936 or 937 - 978) was a Chinese poet and the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period; he has been called the first true master of the ci form (Indiana Companion...

Song Dynasty and following

Jump to: navigation, search The Song Dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279. ... Liu Yong(柳永),(987--1053) is a Chinese poet of the Song dynasty. ... Ouyang Xiu (Ou-Yang Hsiu) (歐陽修; 欧阳修 style name: Yongshu 永叔; also known as Zuiweng 醉翁 and Liuyi Jushi 六一居士) (Wade-Giles: Ouyang Hsiu) (1007 - 1072) was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty. ... Zeng Gong (曾鞏; style name: Zigu 子固; 1019-1083) was a scholar and historian of the Song Dynasty in China. ... Wáng Ānshí (王安石) (1021 - 1086) was a Chinese economist, statesman and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some controversial, major socio-economic reforms. ... Su Shi (蘇軾) (1037-1101) was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher and statesman of the Song Dynasty, one of the major poets of the Song era. ... Huang Tingjian (黄庭堅) (1045-1105), a chinese painter and calligrapher, was one of the Four masters of the Song Dynasty. ... Li Qingzhao (李清照, Lǐ Qīngzhào, Li Ching-chao) (1084 - ca. ... Lu You (陆游 or 陸遊)(1125- 1210) was a Chinese poet of the southern Song dynasty. ... Xin Qiji (辛棄疾, Xīn Qìjí) (1140 - 1207) was a Chinese poet during the Southern Song dynasty. ... Jump to: navigation, search Wen Tianxiang (Wade-Giles: Wen Tien-hsiang) (文天祥, June 6, 1236 – January 9, 1283), titled Duke of Xinguo, the last resisting Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was captured by Kublai Khan, and was brought back to Beijing under house arrest, in the company of... Considered one of the Four Great Yuan Playwrights, Guan Hanqing (關漢卿) (circa 1241-1320), sobriquet the Oldman of the Studio (齋叟 Zhāisǒu), was born in the capital city of the Yuan Empire, Dadu (the part that is Anguo, Hebei, China now) and produced about 65 plays, mostly in Vernacular Chinese... Mă Zhìyuăn (馬致遠) (c. ... Wang Shifu (c1250 - c1337) was a successful Chinese dramatic playwright of the Yuan Dynasty. ... Bai Pu (13th century) is considered one of the top four playwrights of the Yuan Dynasty. ... Shī Nàiān, (施耐庵) (1296? - 1370?) was one of the most famous classical Chinese authors. ... Luo Guanzhong (Traditional Chinese: 羅貫中, Wade Giles: Lo Kuan-chung) was a 14th century Chinese author attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Outlaws of the Marsh, two of the most revered adventure epics in Chinese literature. ...

Ming Dynasty

Jump to: navigation, search The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. ... Wu Chengen (Traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; Simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéngēn) (1500? or 1506?-1582) , was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty. ... Tang Xianzu (1550 - 1616) was a Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty. ... Yuan Hongdao (1568 - 1610) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. ... Feng Menglong (1574-1645) was a Chinese vernacular writer/poet of the late Ming Dynasty. ... Ling Mengchu (1580-1644) was a Chinese vernacular writer of the Ming Dynasty. ... Jin Shengtan (金聖歎, pinyin: Jīn Shèngtàn) (1608-1661) was a Chinese editor, writer and critic, who has been called the champion of the bai hua (vernacular) Chinese literature. ...

Qing Dynasty

Jump to: navigation, search The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: qÄ«ng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories... Li Yu (李漁, 1610 - 1680) was born in the Kiangsu province of China in 1610. ... Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pu Sung-ling) (5 June 1640 - 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer. ... Wu Jingzi wrote a satirical novel called Rulin Waishi which means in English Unofficial history of officialdom. The English translation is called The Scholars. It is a ficticious account of corrupt and hypocritical scholars. ... Yuan Mei (袁枚, 1716 - 1797) was a well-known poet, scholar and artist of the Qing Dynasty. ... C o Xuěq n (Pinyin) (Chinese: 曹雪芹, WG:Tsao Hs eh-chin) (? 1715 - c. ... Huang Tsun-hsien, pinyin Huang Zunxian, 1848--28 March 1905 Born in Chia-ying, now Mei-hsien, in the Kwangtung provence, and died after 57 years in the same place Huang was a government official who worked as a diplomat but is remembered today for his poetry. ... Lin Shu (æž—ç´“ 1852-1924) is a Chinese man of letters, most famous for his introducing Western literature to a whole generation of Chinese readers, despite his ignorance of any foreign language. ...

Modern Period

Yan Fu(1853-1924) was a graduate of the Fuzou dockyard school during the later years of the Qing dynasty in China. ... Liu E (Chinese: 劉鶚; pinyin: , also spelled Liu O) was born in China, October 1848, in Liu-ho, and died 23 August 1909 in Tihua, Xinjiang. ... Wang Guowei (1877-1927) also known as Qing¡an and Baiyu, styled Guantang and Shuiguan, was a Chinese scholar and Ci poet. ... Su Manshu (1894–1918) was a writer, poet, painter and a translator. ... Lu Xun (Traditional: 魯迅; Simplified: 鲁迅; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Lu Hsün) or Lu Hsün (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), the pen name of Zhou Shuren (Traditional Chinese: 周樹人; Simplified Chinese: 周树人; pinyin: ), has been considered the most influential Chinese writer of the 20th century and is seen as the founder of... Huang Yuanyong (黃遠庸), (Pen name: Huang Yuansheng 黃遠生) (1885 - 1915) was a renowned Chinese author and journalist during the late Qing Dynasty (清朝) and early Republic of China (民國初年). ... Xu Dishan (許地山) (1893 - 1941) was a Chinese author who studied Buddhism. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mao Dun (July 4, 1896–March 27, 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong, a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist. ... Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, pinyin: Xú Zhìmó) (January 15, 1897-November 19, 1931) is a twentieth-century Chinese poet. ... Yu Ta-fu, pinyin Yu Dafu was a 1920s Chinese short story writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search Guo Moruo (Chinese: 郭沫若; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuo Mo-jo, courtesy name Dǐng Táng 鼎堂) (November 16, 1892 - June 12, 1978) was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. ... Lao She (老舍, Pinyin: LÇŽo ShÄ›), (February 3, 1899 - August 24 ?, 1966) was a noted Chinese writer of Manchurian ethnicity. ... Zhu Ziqing (Chinese: 朱自清, 1898 - 1948) is a Chinese poet and essayist. ... Tian Han Tian Han (田汉; pinyin: tián hàn) (March 12, 1898 - December 10, 1968) was a Chinese playwright. ... Wen Yiduo (real name: Wen Jiahua) (1899-1946) was a Chinese poet and scholar. ... Shen Congwen (Chinese: 沈从文 pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shen Tsung-wen, originally named Shen Yuehuan) was born 28 December 1902 in Fenghuang, and died 10 May 1988 in Beijing. ... DÄ«ng Líng (丁玲) was the pseudonym of JiÇŽng BÄ«ngzhÄ« (蒋冰之), also known as BÄ«n Zhǐ (彬芷) (October 12, 1904 - March 4, 1986), a contemporary Chinese author from Linli (临澧), Hunan province. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ba Jin in 1938 Li Yaotang (Chinese: 李尧棠, Zi: 芾甘, Feigan) (November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005) was considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the twentieth century. ... Cao Yu (曹禺, pinyin: cáo yÇ”) (1910-1996) is a Chinese dramatist, often regarded as Chinas most important in the 20th century. ... Lin Haiyin (林海音; March 18, 1918 - December 1, 2001) was a Chinese writer of Taiwanese nationality, best remembered for her sensitive memoir 城南旧事 (Chengnan Jiushi, My Memories of Old Beijing), a tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing. ... 34 year-old Eileen Chang in Hong Kong Eileen Chang (Traditional Chinese: 張愛玲; Simplified Chinese: 张爱玲; pinyin: ) (September 30, 1920 – found dead September 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. ... Leung Long Chau (梁朗秋) is a Chinese poet and calligrapher. ... Liu Binyan is a Chinese author and journalist, as well as a political dissident. ... Yang Jianli is a Chinese dissident with U.S. residency. ... Wang Ruowang (王若望， February 4, 1918 - December 19, 2001) was a Chinese author and dissident. ... Yuan Hongbing(袁红冰,1953- ), Chinese jurist, novelist, and dissident. ... Gao Xingjian (高行健, pinyin: Gāo Xíngjiàn; born January 4, 1940), is a Chinese emigré novelist, dramatist and critic, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Han Shaogong is a prominent and innovative Chinese writer (born in 1953 in Hunan). ... Mo Yan (莫言) (born 1956) is a modern Chinese author, known in the West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film Red Sorghum. ... Yu Hua at the 2005 Singapore Writers Festival Yu Hua (余华) is a Chinese author, born in 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. ... Su Tong 苏童 (born 1963) is a Mainland Chinese writer based in Nanjing. ... Zhou Wei Hui （周卫慧）is a young Chinese writer. ... Mian Mian （棉棉）is a young Chinese writer. ...

List by names

B, C, D

Jump to: navigation, search Ba Jin in 1938 Li Yaotang (Chinese: 李尧棠, Zi: 芾甘, Feigan) (November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005) was considered to be one of the most important and widely read Chinese writers of the twentieth century. ... Bai Juyi (白居易; pinyin: Bái Jūyì; Wade-Giles: Pai Chü-i), or Bo Juyi (pinyin: Bó Jūyì; WG. Po Chü-i) (772 - 846) was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. ... Bai Pu (13th century) is considered one of the top four playwrights of the Yuan Dynasty. ... Ban Gu (班固, Wade-Giles Pan Ku) was a 1st century Chinese historian. ... Cao Cao (155 – 220), whose name is also often transliterated as Tsao Tsao, was a regional warlord and the last Chancellor of Eastern Han Dynasty who rose to great power during the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China. ... Cáo PÄ« (曹丕, 187 - 226), born in Qiao County, Pei presently Bozhou city in An Hui Province. ... C o Xuěq n (Pinyin) (Chinese: 曹雪芹, WG:Tsao Hs eh-chin) (? 1715 - c. ... Cao Yu (曹禺, pinyin: cáo yÇ”) (1910-1996) is a Chinese dramatist, often regarded as Chinas most important in the 20th century. ... Cao Zhi (192 – 232) was a Chinese poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. ... DÄ«ng Líng (丁玲) was the pseudonym of JiÇŽng BÄ«ngzhÄ« (蒋冰之), also known as BÄ«n Zhǐ (彬芷) (October 12, 1904 - March 4, 1986), a contemporary Chinese author from Linli (临澧), Hunan province. ... Du Mu (杜牧, pinyin: Dù Mù, 803 - 852) was a leading realistic Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty. ... There are no contemporaneous portraits of Du Fu; this is a later artists impression Du Fu or Tu Fu (杜甫; pinyin: Dù FÇ”; Wade-Giles: Tu⁴ Fu³), also known as Dù Shàolíng (杜少陵) or Dù Gōngbù (杜工部) (712–770) was a prominent Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. ...

F, G, H, J

Feng Menglong (1574-1645) was a Chinese vernacular writer/poet of the late Ming Dynasty. ... Considered one of the Four Great Yuan Playwrights, Guan Hanqing (關漢卿) (circa 1241-1320), sobriquet the Oldman of the Studio (齋叟 Zhāisǒu), was born in the capital city of the Yuan Empire, Dadu (the part that is Anguo, Hebei, China now) and produced about 65 plays, mostly in Vernacular Chinese... Jump to: navigation, search Guo Moruo (Chinese: 郭沫若; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuo Mo-jo, courtesy name Dǐng Táng 鼎堂) (November 16, 1892 - June 12, 1978) was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. ... Gao Xingjian (高行健, pinyin: Gāo Xíngjiàn; born January 4, 1940), is a Chinese emigré novelist, dramatist and critic, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Han-Shan (寒山，translated into English as Cold Mountain) was a Chinese Tang era poet in the Taoist/Zen tradition, honored as a Bodhisattva. ... Hán Yù (韓愈) (768 - 824), was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet. ... Ho Fuk Yan (何福仁) is a renowned Chinese language author and poet in Hong Kong. ... Huang Tingjian (黄庭堅) (1045-1105), a chinese painter and calligrapher, was one of the Four masters of the Song Dynasty. ... Huang Yuanyong (黃遠庸), (Pen name: Huang Yuansheng 黃遠生) (1885 - 1915) was a renowned Chinese author and journalist during the late Qing Dynasty (清朝) and early Republic of China (民國初年). ... Huang Tsun-hsien, pinyin Huang Zunxian, 1848--28 March 1905 Born in Chia-ying, now Mei-hsien, in the Kwangtung provence, and died after 57 years in the same place Huang was a government official who worked as a diplomat but is remembered today for his poetry. ... Hu Shih (Simplified: 胡适, Traditional: 胡適, Pinyin: Hú Shì), (December 17, 1891-February 24, 1962) was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. ... Jin Shengtan (金聖歎, pinyin: Jīn Shèngtàn) (1608-1661) was a Chinese editor, writer and critic, who has been called the champion of the bai hua (vernacular) Chinese literature. ...

L

Lao She (老舍, Pinyin: LÇŽo ShÄ›), (February 3, 1899 - August 24 ?, 1966) was a noted Chinese writer of Manchurian ethnicity. ... Li Ao Li Ao (李敖 pinyin Lǐ Áo) (born April 25, 1935), is a writer, social commentator, historian, and politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. ... Jump to: navigation, search Li Bai or Li Po (701-762) was a Chinese poet living during the Tang Dynasty. ... Li He (李賀 790-816), with the courtesy name of Changji (長吉), is a short-lived Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, famous for his unconventional and imaginative style. ... Li Qingzhao (李清照, Lǐ Qīngzhào, Li Ching-chao) (1084 - ca. ... Li Shangyin, 李商隱 (between 810 and 813- 858), was a Chinese poet of the late Tang dynasty, born in Huizhou in Hunan province. ... During the middle of the tenth century A.D. Li Houzhu ruled the Southern Tang Kingdom. ... During the middle of the tenth century A.D. Li Houzhu ruled the Southern Tang Kingdom. ... Lin Haiyin (林海音; March 18, 1918 - December 1, 2001) was a Chinese writer of Taiwanese nationality, best remembered for her sensitive memoir 城南旧事 (Chengnan Jiushi, My Memories of Old Beijing), a tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing. ... Lin Shu (æž—ç´“ 1852-1924) is a Chinese man of letters, most famous for his introducing Western literature to a whole generation of Chinese readers, despite his ignorance of any foreign language. ... Lin Yutang, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Lin Yutang (林語堂, October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer whose original works and translations of classic Chinese texts became very popular in the West. ... Ling Mengchu (1580-1644) was a Chinese vernacular writer of the Ming Dynasty. ... Liu E (Chinese: 劉鶚; pinyin: , also spelled Liu O) was born in China, October 1848, in Liu-ho, and died 23 August 1909 in Tihua, Xinjiang. ... Liu Yong(柳永),(987--1053) is a Chinese poet of the Song dynasty. ... Liu Zongyuan (柳宗元) (773 - 819) was a Chinese writer who lived in Changan in the Tang dynasty. ... Leung Long Chau (梁朗秋) is a Chinese poet and calligrapher. ... Pinyin Lu Ji or Lu Chi (261-303C.E.) was a chinese writer and literary critic from the Kingdom of Wu in south China. ... Lu You (陆游 or 陸遊)(1125- 1210) was a Chinese poet of the southern Song dynasty. ... Lu Xun (Traditional: 魯迅; Simplified: 鲁迅; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Lu Hsün) or Lu Hsün (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), the pen name of Zhou Shuren (Traditional Chinese: 周樹人; Simplified Chinese: 周树人; pinyin: ), has been considered the most influential Chinese writer of the 20th century and is seen as the founder of... Luo Binwang (骆宾王) (around 640 - 684) of the Tang Dynasty, was a Chinese poet born at Yiwu, Wuzhou, Zhejiang, but raised in Shandong. ... Luo Guanzhong (Traditional Chinese: 羅貫中, Wade Giles: Lo Kuan-chung) was a 14th century Chinese author attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Outlaws of the Marsh, two of the most revered adventure epics in Chinese literature. ...

M, O, P, Q, S, T

Mă Zhìyuăn (馬致遠) (c. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mao Dun (July 4, 1896–March 27, 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong, a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist. ... Meng Haoran (孟浩然) (Pinyin Mèng Hàorán) (689 or 691 - 740) was a Chinese poet during the Tang dynasty. ... Mian Mian （棉棉）is a young Chinese writer. ... Ouyang Xiu (Ou-Yang Hsiu) (歐陽修; 欧阳修 style name: Yongshu 永叔; also known as Zuiweng 醉翁 and Liuyi Jushi 六一居士) (Wade-Giles: Ouyang Hsiu) (1007 - 1072) was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet of the Song Dynasty. ... Pu Songling (Chinese: 蒲松齡; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pu Sung-ling) (5 June 1640 - 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer. ... Qu Yuan (Simplified Chinese: 屈原; Traditional Chinese: 屈原; Pinyin: qū yúan) (340 BC - 278 BC) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring States Period. ... Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese writer and scholar. ... Shen Congwen (Chinese: 沈从文 pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shen Tsung-wen, originally named Shen Yuehuan) was born 28 December 1902 in Fenghuang, and died 10 May 1988 in Beijing. ... Shī Nàiān, (施耐庵) (1296? - 1370?) was one of the most famous classical Chinese authors. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sima Qian (circa 145—90 BC) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史令) of the Han Dynasty. ... Sima Xiangru (179 - 117 BC) was a Chinese writer. ... Su Manshu (1894–1918) was a writer, poet, painter and a translator. ... Su Shi (蘇軾) (1037-1101) was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher and statesman of the Song Dynasty, one of the major poets of the Song era. ... Su Tong 苏童 (born 1963) is a Mainland Chinese writer based in Nanjing. ... Song Yu (Simplified Chinese: 宋玉) was a well-known Chinese poet in the State of Chu during the third century BCE. He is commonly said to be a nephew of Qu Yuan, but no reliable biographical information is available (He is also said to be a student of Qu Yuan). ... Categories: People stubs | Chinese poets ... Tang Xianzu (1550 - 1616) was a Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty. ... Tian Han Tian Han (田汉; pinyin: tián hàn) (March 12, 1898 - December 10, 1968) was a Chinese playwright. ...

W, X, Y, Z

See also: Category:Chinese writers, Lists of authors, list of China-related topics, list of famous Chinese people, China. Wáng Ānshí (王安石) (1021 - 1086) was a Chinese economist, statesman and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some controversial, major socio-economic reforms. ... Wang Guowei (1877-1927) also known as Qing¡an and Baiyu, styled Guantang and Shuiguan, was a Chinese scholar and Ci poet. ... Wang Shifu (c1250 - c1337) was a successful Chinese dramatic playwright of the Yuan Dynasty. ... This article is about the 8th century Chinese poet; other Wang Weis are Wang Wei (17th century poet) and Wang Wei (pilot). ... Jump to: navigation, search Wen Tianxiang (Wade-Giles: Wen Tien-hsiang) (文天祥, June 6, 1236 – January 9, 1283), titled Duke of Xinguo, the last resisting Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, was captured by Kublai Khan, and was brought back to Beijing under house arrest, in the company of... Wen Yiduo (real name: Wen Jiahua) (1899-1946) was a Chinese poet and scholar. ... Wu Chengen (Traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; Simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéngēn) (1500? or 1506?-1582) , was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty. ... Wu Jingzi wrote a satirical novel called Rulin Waishi which means in English Unofficial history of officialdom. The English translation is called The Scholars. It is a ficticious account of corrupt and hypocritical scholars. ... Xi Kang (嵇康) (223-262) was a Chinese author, poet, Taoist philosopher, and alchemist. ... Xie Lingyun, 謝靈運 (385-422) was a Chinese author. ... Xin Qiji (辛棄疾, Xīn Qìjí) (1140 - 1207) was a Chinese poet during the Southern Song dynasty. ... Xu Dishan (許地山) (1893 - 1941) was a Chinese author who studied Buddhism. ... Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, pinyin: Xú Zhìmó) (January 15, 1897-November 19, 1931) is a twentieth-century Chinese poet. ... Yan Fu (嚴復) (1853 - 1924) was a Chinese author. ... Yu Ta-fu, pinyin Yu Dafu was a 1920s Chinese short story writer. ... Yu Hua at the 2005 Singapore Writers Festival Yu Hua (余华) is a Chinese author, born in 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. ... Yuan Hongdao (1568 - 1610) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. ... Yuan Mei (袁枚, 1716 - 1797) was a well-known poet, scholar and artist of the Qing Dynasty. ... Pinyin Yuan Zhen (779 to 831) was an important Chinese writer in the middle Tang Dynasty. ... Zeng Gong (曾鞏; style name: Zigu 子固; 1019-1083) was a scholar and historian of the Song Dynasty in China. ... Eileen Chang (Chinese: 张爱玲; Pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng), (September 30, 1920 - found dead September 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. ... Replica of Zhang Hengs seismograph Zhang Heng (張衡) (AD 78–AD 139) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, artist and literary scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty of China. ... Zhou Wei Hui （周卫慧）is a young Chinese writer. ... Zhu Ziqing (Chinese: 朱自清, 1898 - 1948) is a Chinese poet and essayist. ... Jump to: navigation, search The following are lists of authors and writers: // By name A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z By type of writing or genre List of hindi writers... The sub-pages of this article aim to list articles on Wikipedia that are related to China, including Hong Kong and Macau. ... Famous Chinese or Chinese-speaking/writing people. ...


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