Chinese Literature

By Fabian33
  • Period: 1600 BCE to 649 BCE

    Ghost stories and Woodblock

    Early Chinese ghost stories written in China. Woodblock printing process develops under reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang
  • 1200 BCE

    Shang Oracles

    Shang Oracles
    Earliest evidence of Chinese writing is found on Shang oracle bones. earliest known Chinese poems composed.
  • 806 BCE

    "Song of Everlasting Sorrow"

    "Song of Everlasting Sorrow"
    Tragic love affair of Xuanzong and Lady Yang immortalized in Chinese poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi.
  • 800 BCE

    First Official Book

    First Official Book
    The first book with a date is published
  • Period: 772 BCE to 846 BCE

    Bai Juyi

    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.
  • Period: 768 BCE to 772 BCE

    Han Yu

    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.
  • Period: 712 BCE to 770 BCE

    Du Fu

    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.
  • Period: 701 BCE to 762 BCE

    Li Po

    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.
  • Period: 701 BCE to 761 BCE

    Wang Wei

    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.
  • 400 BCE

    Chuan Tausche

    Chuan Tausche
    Taoist philosopher Chuan Tau.ssh ma chien writes records of the historian a history of china through Wu tis reign.
  • 365 BCE

    Tao Chien

    Tao Chien
    the birth of Tao Chien who would turn out to be a very important and influential lyric poet.
  • 200 BCE

    First Dictionary

    First Dictionary
    the first ever Chinese dictionary was complete
  • 1 BCE

    Pan Ku

    Pan Ku
    Pan Ku writes history of the former Han dynasty.