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Early Chinese ghost stories written in China. Woodblock printing process develops under reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang
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Earliest evidence of Chinese writing is found on Shang oracle bones. earliest known Chinese poems composed.
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Tragic love affair of Xuanzong and Lady Yang immortalized in Chinese poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi.
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The first book with a date is published
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Life of Bai Juyi, poet of later Tang Dynasty, author of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty (618–907) who used his elegantly simple verse to protest the social evils of his day, including corruption and militarism.
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Life of Han Yu, "the Shakespeare of China". master of Chinese prose, outstanding poet, and the first proponent of what later came to be known as Neo-Confucianism, which had wide influence in China and Japan.
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Life of the poet Du Fu, great poet of Tang Dynasty. Died on a riverboat between Danzhou [now Changsha] and Yueyang, (Hunan province), Chinese poet, considered by many literary critics to be the greatest of all time.
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Life of Li Po, greatest poet of the Tang Dynasty.The classical Chinese poet Li Po was both a rebel wanderer and a courtier. He is revered along with his contemporary, Tu Fu, as one of the two greatest Chinese poets.
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Life of Wang Wei, great Chinese poet and painter.the founder of the revered Southern school of painter-poets, whom Dong Qichang characterized as more concerned with personal expression than surface representation.
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Taoist philosopher Chuan Tau.ssh ma chien writes records of the historian a history of china through Wu tis reign.
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the birth of Tao Chien who would turn out to be a very important and influential lyric poet.
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the first ever Chinese dictionary was complete
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Pan Ku writes history of the former Han dynasty.
