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2016-06-09T14:49:40Z

Sherry: Created page with "When I read her books,I feel like listening to my mother. Her writings give me warmth.And the storys she writes most about women life."

When I read her books,I feel like listening to my mother. Her writings give me warmth.And the storys she writes most about women life.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T14:43:18Z

Sherry:

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Bi Shumin in the travel ]]

Bi Shumin is one of the most unusual and powerful female writers in China's current literary scene. She is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite.

== Youth ==

[[File:the youth of Bi Shumin.jpg|thumb|100px|left|the youth of Bi Shumin in the army]]

Bi Shumin born in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1952, Bi joined the army at the age of 17 and spent 11 years training as a combat medic.When she arrived in Beijing and had the chance to choose her own studies, Bi decided to pursue a career in medicine while studying for a master’s degree in Chinese at Beijing Normal University.She is much like writers Lu Xun and Guo Moruo, who also gave up medical science for the pen. She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

== Literature ==

*[[File:Kunlunshang.jpg|left|thumb|80px|昆仑殇]]Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

*Bi Shumin was a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death.
**[[File:shengshengbuyi.jpg|left|thumb|80px|生生不已]]<endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way.

**[[File:hongchufang.jpg|left|thumb|80px|红处方]]<red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking.

**[[File:zhengjiurufang.jpg|left|thumb|80px|拯救乳房]]Save the Breast, focuses on the psychological trauma of breast cancer patients. It is the first novel written and published in China to take psychological therapy as its theme. Save the Breast is a serious work with a somewhat deviant title. The book's title is considered to be flirting with readers and luring people to buy it by suggesting sexual overtones. However, Bi denies the charge. "It is not an all-sided view to judge a book merely by its title," explained Bi. According to Bi, the title was picked by the publisher, People's Literature Publishing House, after careful and cautious consideration. Publishing house director Liu Yushan argued that by using the title, the house was not catering to prurient interests of some readers. Save the Breast does not intend to use sex as its selling point. Save the Breast deals with the stories of a group of breast cancer patients.

*Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

*Bi Shumin's uncommon life experiences have given her works distinctive characteristics and endowed her with perspectives both as a writer and as a doctor. She also possesses unique insights that can grasp both mental and physical essence, courage, broad mindedness and merciful sentiments that are difficult for many writers, and a mission and responsibility that regards it as her own duty to heal the wounded and rescue the dead while curing sickness to save patients.Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T14:19:37Z

Sherry: /* Literature */

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Bi Shumin in the travel ]]

Bi Shumin is one of the most unusual and powerful female writers in China's current literary scene. She is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite.

== Youth ==

[[File:the youth of Bi Shumin.jpg|thumb|100px|left|the youth of Bi Shumin in the army]]

Bi Shumin joined the army when she was 16 and practiced medicine for 22 years. She is much like writers Lu Xun and Guo Moruo, who also gave up medical science for the pen. She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

== Literature ==

*[[File:Kunlunshang.jpg|left|thumb|80px|昆仑殇]]Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

*Bi Shumin was a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death.
**[[File:shengshengbuyi.jpg|left|thumb|80px|生生不已]]<endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way.

**[[File:hongchufang.jpg|left|thumb|80px|红处方]]<red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking.

**[[File:zhengjiurufang.jpg|left|thumb|80px|拯救乳房]]Save the Breast, focuses on the psychological trauma of breast cancer patients. It is the first novel written and published in China to take psychological therapy as its theme. Save the Breast is a serious work with a somewhat deviant title. The book's title is considered to be flirting with readers and luring people to buy it by suggesting sexual overtones. However, Bi denies the charge. "It is not an all-sided view to judge a book merely by its title," explained Bi. According to Bi, the title was picked by the publisher, People's Literature Publishing House, after careful and cautious consideration. Publishing house director Liu Yushan argued that by using the title, the house was not catering to prurient interests of some readers. Save the Breast does not intend to use sex as its selling point. Save the Breast deals with the stories of a group of breast cancer patients.

*Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

*Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

File:Shengshengbuyi.jpg

2016-06-09T14:07:35Z

Sherry:

File:Zhengjiurufang.jpg

2016-06-09T14:07:03Z

Sherry:

File:Hongchufang.jpg

2016-06-09T14:06:34Z

Sherry:

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T14:00:36Z

Sherry:

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T13:36:06Z

Sherry:

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg|300px|thmb|left|Bi Shumin in the travel ]]

*Bi Shumin is one of the most unusual and powerful female writers in China's current literary scene. She is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite.

== Youth ==

*[[File:the youth of Bi Shumin.jpg|100px|thmb|left|the youth of Bi Shumin in the army]]

Bi Shumin joined the army when she was 16 and practiced medicine for 22 years. She is much like writers Lu Xun and Guo Moruo, who also gave up medical science for the pen. She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

== Literature ==

*[[File:Kunlunshang.jpg|80px|thmb|left|Kunlunshang]]Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

*Bi Shumin was a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death.
**<endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way.
**<red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking.
**<save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.

*Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

*Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T13:05:49Z

Sherry:

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg|200px]]

*Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother.

*[[File:the youth of Bi Shumin.jpg|50px]]She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

*[[File:Kunlunshang.jpg|50px]]Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

*At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.

*Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

*Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T12:50:45Z

Sherry:

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg|200px]]

*Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother.

*[[File:the youth of Bi Shumin.jpg|100px]]She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

*Her first work is <Kunlun shang>[[File:Kunlunshang.jpg|100px]], which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

*At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.

*Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

*Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

File:Kunlunshang.jpg

2016-06-09T12:46:44Z

Sherry:

File:The youth of Bi Shumin.jpg

2016-06-09T12:46:00Z

Sherry:

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T12:42:50Z

Sherry:

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg|200px]]

*Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother.

*She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

*Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

*At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.

*Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

*Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T12:32:43Z

Sherry:

[[File:Bi Shumin.jpg]]

== '''Bi Shumin''' is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother. ==

== She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987. ==

== Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s. ==

== At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer. ==

== Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, . ==

Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

File:Bi Shumin.jpg

2016-06-09T12:29:53Z

Sherry:

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T12:20:51Z

Sherry:

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== '''Bi Shumin''' is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother. ==

== She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987. ==

== Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s. ==

== At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer. ==

== Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, . ==

== Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin. ==

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T12:19:11Z

Sherry:

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'''Bi Shumin''' is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother.
She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

== Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s. ==

== At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer. ==

== Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, . ==

Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T12:05:51Z

Sherry:

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Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother. *She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.#Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.#At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.#Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .*Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Bi Shumin

2016-06-09T11:52:41Z

Sherry: Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer who has different pespective.

Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother.
She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.
Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.
At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.
Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .
Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.

Modern Chinese Literature

2016-06-09T11:43:58Z

Sherry: /* Contemporary Women authors */

= Emergence of modern Chinese literature =

= Historical and cultural background late Qing =
* Genre development in China, scholars as authors, Mandarin & Butterfly School
* Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, 1791, transl. David Hawkes, John Minford

= Encounter with the West, Westernization =
* [[Wu Jianren]]--[[User:Sunflowertide|Sunflowertide]] ([[User talk:Sunflowertide|talk]]) 10:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
** New Story of the Stone, utopian novel
* Liang Qichao, Accounts of the future of new China, utopian fragment
* Secondary Literature:
** Wang, David Derwei. Fin-de-siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1849-1911. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.
** Wang, David Derwei. “Translating Modernity.” Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and Creation: Readings of Western Literature in Early Modern China, 1840–1918. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998. 303-330.
** Wang Dun (王敦). “The Late Qing’s Other Utopias: China’s Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910”, in: Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34.2, September 2008: 37-61
** John Fitzgerald, The Unfinished History of China's Future, in: Thesis Eleven 1999 57:17, here pp. 21-23, http://the.sagepub.com/content/57/1/17

= May Fourth iconoclasm - Historical and cultural background May Fourth =
* Liang Qichao, Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation, Denton 71-73
* Hu Shi, Some modest proposals for the Reform of Literature, D1996:123-139

= The role of translations and translators =
* Yan Fu
* Lin Shu
* the earliest translations [unpublished ppt presentation_woesler.pptx, paper: woesler_early_translations_of_german_literature_into_chinese_final.doc, paper]
* the selection process and intention of translations

= Discovery of the alienated Self – World Literature =
* McDougall and Louie, 1-185; focus on pages 1-30
* [[Lu Xun (1881-1936)]] Beween activism and self-doubt - the development of Lu Xun [[User:Maranda|Maranda]] 21:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC) and 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
** Lu Xun: Preface to the first collection of Short Stories "Call to arms" 1922 (LG:3-7), A Madman's Diary 1918 (LG:8-16), Kong Yiji 1919 (LG:17-21)
** Further information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/mad.htm, http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/kong.htm
** "Hometown" http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/luxun-calltoarms.html#Home [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]

= Living to see the Western literary epochs in Chinese time lapse. The Literary societies and May Fourth Romanticism =
* Required reading: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/publications/research/soc.htm
* Further reading: Literary Societies of Republican China. Edited by KIRK A. DENTON and MICHEL HOCKX. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. ix, 591 pp.
* Crescent Moon
* Creation Society
* Yu Dafu, "Sinking" 1921 [31-55], Xu Zhimo's poems 1925-1930 [499-501]
* [[Guo Moruo (1892 -1978)]] [[User:DavidSmith|DavidSmith]] 21:40, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
** Guo Moruo: “The hound of heaven” 1920

= Literature of the 1930s =
*[[Qian Zhongshu (1910 – 1998)]] [[User:Ericaangie]] 13:19, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
** Self-selected excerpts from Qian Zhongshu, [[Fortress besieged]] --[[User:Sunflowertide|Sunflowertide]] ([[User talk:Sunflowertide|talk]]) 10:36, 1 June 2016 (UTC) 1947

= Women writers =
* Literature of the Megacities - The inner life of Shanghainese women writers with a focus on Zhang Ailing
* [[Zhang Ailing(1920-1995)]] -- [[User:Mark]] 15:15, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
* [[Ling Shuhua (1900-1990)]] [[User:Mattstrock|Mattstrock]] 21:22, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
* Ling Shuhua, "The Night of Mid-Autumn Festival" [95-102];
*[[ Xiao Hong (1911-1942)]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 03:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
* Xiao Hong, "Hands" [161-73]; "On the Oxcart" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
* [[Zhang Jie (born 1937)]][[User:Ericaangie|Ericaangie]] 18:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

= The fall: Authors yoke their literature for a deceiving ideology. Lu Xun’s proud ox bows his head not only for children, but now also for party action =
* Lu Xun’s ambiguous attitude towards taking physical action, towards the impact of literature on society and towards serving an ideology with literature.
* Mao's claim of Lu Xun

= The socialist era, Yan'an Literature and Rectification =
* Mao Zedong, Poems, Talks in Yan'an: Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms, 1938, D1996:433-435
* Ding Ling, "When I Was in Hsia Village" [132-46]
* Mao Dun and "Spring Silkworms" [56-73]

= Authors in transition: From Revolutionary Romanticism to Reform Literature =
* [[Wang Meng]] by Maranda 21:45, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
* Wang Meng, Long Live [the] Youth!
* Wang Meng, Hard Porridge, trans. by Chen Zishan
* [[Ba Jin]] [[User:PhilipHarding|PhilipHarding]] 21:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC): Family and the self-censorship in the later edition

= On different paths: Bing Xin, Zhang Jie =
* [[Bing Xin]]
* Zhang Jie: Heavy Wings
* [[Zhang Jie: Kid From The Forest]]

= Chinese Modernism and the Aesthetic =
* McDougall and Louie, 189-321; focus on pages 189-207
* Shi Zhicun, "One Evening in the Rainy Season" [115-24]
* Regional literature
* Shen Congwen, "Xiaoxiao" [82-94]
* "Meijin, Baozi, and the White Kid" [in China: A Traveler's Liteary Companion]

= Post-Revolutionary Literature; Cultural Revolution =
* "Red Detachment of Women" [Film Viewing]

= Post-Mao Literature, Scars and realism, Roots literature =
* McDougall and Louie, 325-448; focus on pages 325-44
* Liu Heng, "Dogshit Food" [366-78]; scars literature
* Yan Lianke, "Black Bristle, White Bristles" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion]
* [[The Scar Literature After "the Cultural Revolution"]]
** Lu Xinhua, Scar

= Master narrators Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, Wang Shuo =
* [[Mo Yan]] 莫言 by Corinne B.
: His story: "Old Gun" [in China: A Traveler's Literary Companion], novel 生死疲勞 "Life and Death are Wearing me out"
* [[Yu Hua]], "Brothers" by David 06:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC) by Jackie(BNU)2016
* Jia Pingwa
* Wang Shuo

= Contemporary Women authors =
* [[Bi Shumin]](毕淑敏), 女儿拳 Women’s boxing, 女心理师 The female psychologist

= Avant-garde literature and post-socialist present =
“Avant-garde” means something fashion forward、radically、and rebellious. Avant-garde should be a dynamic and historical being . Any work which is pioneering、experimental and prospective should be called “Avant-garde” literature.
The most widely agreed about Avant-garde refers to that, about 1985, a group of writers who have clear innovation on form and show a strong attention on narrative . Apart from 苏童 and 余华,there are 马原、洪峰、叶兆言 and so on.
* Su Tong, "Escape" [445-54];
* Su Tong, "Escape" [445-54];
* Yu Hua, "On the Road at Eighteen" [439-44]
** modern Chinese literary life, such as publishing in journals and newspaper supplements, working within literary societies or associations, and dealing with censorship
* Gu Cheng, Mang Ke, Bei Dao: Poets of the Obscure School since the 1980s

= Taiwan literature =
* Zhang Dachun, "Lucky Worries About His Country" (403-416)
* Zhu Tianwen, "Fin de Siècle Splendor" [388-402]

= Longing for something literature I: Historicizing, II: Tibet Exotism =
* Yu Dan 于丹, 《论语》心得 Confucius in your heart, Yi Zhongtian (易中天)
* Alai

= Megacity Literature II - Peking and Vagabound Literature =
* Xu Zechen (徐则臣), 跑步穿过中关村 Peking double quick
* Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), 我叫刘跃 The pickpockets

= Between cult and celebrity =
* Cult author Guo Jingming
** Book series "Bestseller"
** Guo Jingming (郭敬明), 悲伤逆流成河 Cry me a sad river
* Cult author Mian Mian
** Mian Mian (棉棉), 声名狼籍 Panda Sex

= Critical surrealist Han Han, young authors =
* [[Han Han]] by Matt S.
:Triple door
:His Land

= Blog, Web and Fan literature =
* Blogs (blog literature?), from web to paper literature
* Ai Weiwei, Han Han, Annie Baobei

= Fan literature =
* Web literature portal qidian.com