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Really hard to read something like that

《三国演义》 (The Romance of the Three Kingdoms) by Luo Guanzhong (罗贯中 luo2 guan4 zhong1)
  • Are those 《 》 necessary ? I think that they are usefull in a Chinese text were some ambiguities occur with titles. But here the reader know that it is a name of a book, no ?
  • I would really love a bot to change those numbers meng2 ma4 to tones méng mà"


Amy DeMattei and Maxine Kingston are not Chinese. I do not think that they should be included in a discussion of Chinese Litteratre alongside Chinese authors.

I believe that Confucius (Kong zi) should be mentioned along with Zhuang zi, Meng zi, etc. He is, after all, believed to be more prominent.

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[edit] Searching for a Qing Dynasty author

I am writing a page on Jow Tong, the archery teacher of Yue Fei. Now Yue Fei has a fictional wuxia novel called Telling the Complete Biography of Yue Fei and the original was written by Qian Cai (Chinese: 钱彩) during the Qing Dynasty. I know of there being a second edition written during the late Qing Dynasty by another person, but I don’t know their name.

I recently came across the following page that describes Yue Fei’s biography:

The Complete Story of Yue Fei was written by Qian Cai and Jin Feng based on all kinds of legends about Yue Fei. Yue Fei was the major character in the novel. He was a national hero and patriotic general, but he was, at the same time, stubbornly loyal to the incompetent government. Negative characters such as Wu Zhu and the Qin Hui couple were also vividly portrayed. Feudal society was in a gradual decline in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Discussions about love, marriage and codes of ethics were the major subjects in fiction of this period. The Marriage that Awakes the World belonged to this category. It described the entanglement of marriages between two families engaged in a blood feud. The novel vividly portrayed a host of characters from different social classes, profoundly revealing the seamy side of social reality and acutely reflecting the rise of mercantile forecast the end of feudal society. This was a long novel of more than 1 million Chinese characters. [1]

The copy of the Complete Story of Yue Fei I have only mentions Qian Cai. Who is this Jin Feng author? Is he the author of the second edition? What else has he written besides this fictional biography? (Ghostexorcist 04:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Additions

I recently added Shen Kuo and Su Song to the list of contributors, noting their scientific/technological bent. --PericlesofAthens 15:52, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I just added the new section and info on Chinese historiography.--PericlesofAthens 01:50, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I expanded the History text section to include large Chinese encyclopedias written over the ages.--PericlesofAthens 00:54, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Art of War?

No mention of this classic? That seems an oversight. I'd put it in myself but I don't feel knowledgeable enough.

[edit] Drama?

I added some pre-20th century drama titles that are mentioned elsewhere in Wikipedia, but had to post the list under the "novels" section -- is that the best place to put it?

Aristophanes68 21:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Themes

It would be great for this article to contain a summary and analysis of the major THEMES in Chinese literature. Do we have any experts who can handle this task? --Cantaire87 21:46, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Does it include....

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Does this include the the alphabet in chinese, maybe the many alphabets in chinese? Does the chinese alphabet actually have thousands of characters? Could anyone who knows this answer, please e-mail it to me at affieet@gmail.com. This information is for a school project (I'm in 6th grade)

Thank you Afreenat —Preceding unsigned comment added by Afreenat (talk • contribs) 20:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New category, need articles

I have created a subcategory for Category:Stock characters by characteristics called Category:Fictional elderly martial arts masters. I'm sure there are some people on here that know of some articles that can fit into this category. Thanks. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 18:56, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletions

I removed "Chinese writers on the mainland felt Gao did not authentically represent China." A subjective assertion with no citation regarding Gao Xingjian's receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000.

cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PROVEIT#Burden_of_evidence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.236.89.143 (talk) 04:52, 20 May 2008 (UTC)