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  1. 2001. “ The End of the Past: Rewriting Chinese Literary History in the Early Republic .”. In The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China’s May Fourth Project. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. Download Citation. 2001. “The End of the Past: Rewriting Chinese Literary History in the Early Republic.”.

  2. The history of Chinese literature [1] extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major works of philosophy and history written during the Axial Age. The Han (202 BC – 220 AD) and Tang (618–907 AD) dynasties were considered golden ages of poetry, while the Song (960–1279 ...

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  4. May 28, 2011 · 1 Literature of the early Ming to mid-Ming (1375–1572) 2 The literary culture of the late Ming (1573–1644) 3 Early Qing to 1723; 4 The literati era and its demise (1723–1840) 5 Prosimetric and verse narrative; 6 Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937; 7 Chinese literature from 1937 to the present; Epilogue: Sinophone writings and the ...

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  5. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. Search within full text. Get access. Volume 1: To 1375. Edited by Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University, Connecticut, Stephen Owen, Harvard University, Massachusetts. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Online publication date:

  6. Chinese Literature: An Introduction. Chinese literature is a pleasure to teach and to read; it holds an importance and relevance both in historical terms and in understanding the world today. Yet, its history, language and culture are quite rich, and different from much of the Western tradition that the study of Chinese literature can prove ...

  7. The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature - April 2010. The Chinese language and writing system. The earliest evidence for the Chinese language, and for the Chinese script as its writing system, is found in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions from the site of the Late Shang (ca 1250–ca 1046 bc) royal capital near modern Anyang, located in the northernmost part of modern Henan Province.

  8. lüshi. yuefu. nanxi. Chinese literature, the body of works written in Chinese, including lyric poetry, historical and didactic writing, drama, and various forms of fiction. Chinese literature is one of the major literary heritages of the world, with an uninterrupted history of more than 3,000 years, dating back at least to the 14th century bce.