Where to Start with Chinese Literature (by Genre) - A Summary and What's New 2019
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- Hi friends! Thank you so much for check out this video, I hope you enjoy Chinese literature if you decided to pick up some books, let me know any of your thoughts! And OPEN here to get the 【Table of Contents】↓↓↓
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◉ Modern Classics 02:42
→ LOVE IN A FALLEN CITY by Eileen Chang goo.gl/W8QAzg
→ LUST, CAUTION: THE STORY by Eileen Chang goo.gl/jjWxNJ
→ HALF A LIFELONG ROMANCE by Eileen Chang goo.gl/JKz1VJ
→ THE REAL STORY OF AH-Q AND OTHER TALES OF CHINA by Lu Xun goo.gl/ptw99C
→ DIARY OF A MADMAN AND OTHER STORIES by Lu Xun goo.gl/D91uRJ
→ THE SHOP OF THE LIN FAMILY & SPRING SILKWORMS by Mao Dun goo.gl/p3kgVH
→ MR. MA AND SON by Lao She goo.gl/JzEmm8
→ CAT COUNTRY by Lao She goo.gl/W345HQ
→ THE FIELD OF LIFE AND DEATH & TALES OF HULAN RIVER By Xiao Hong goo.gl/XdCfNs
◉ Contemporary 07:34
→ A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS by Guo Xiaolu goo.gl/wHVSGA
◉ Historical Fiction 08:21
→ THE LAST QUARTER OF THE MOON by Chi Zijian goo.gl/AKW7rD
→ THE SONG OF EVERLASTING SORROW by Wang Anyi goo.gl/zM9dmK
→ TO LIVE by Yu Hua goo.gl/Mq2jzb
→ RED SORGHUM by Mo Yan goo.gl/jJvaXz
→ THE FLOWERS OF WAR by Yan Geling goo.gl/ZCkU8t
◉ Fantasy 11:21
→ A HERO BORN BY Jin Yong goo.gl/4rF8e4
→ THE ELEVENTH SON BY Gu Long goo.gl/mPXUXc
◉ Science Fiction 13:18
→ FOLDING BEIJING BY Hao Jingfang goo.gl/gzkt8m
→ THE THREE BODY PROBLEM by Liu Cixin goo.gl/L2E724
◉ Classics 15:56
→ THE STORY OF THE STONE (DREAM OF RED CHAMBER) By Cao Xueqin goo.gl/CGsHNi
→ THE WATER MARGIN BY Shi Naian goo.gl/7noAu6
→ ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS BY Luo Guanzhong goo.gl/gWd52o
→ THE JOURNEY TO THE WEST BY Wu Chengen goo.gl/YzEsDE
◉ Others, including Poetry, essay collection, and plays 18:13
→ THE ANSWER by Bei Dao goo.gl/YE1xaZ
→ SIX CHAPTERS FROM MY LIFE "DOWNUNDER" By Yang Jiang goo.gl/Pn6MQE
→ TEAHOUSE by Lao She goo.gl/T5pGgp
→ THUNDERSTORM by Caoyu goo.gl/yHBvoh
→ SUNRISE by Caoyu goo.gl/RtoAem
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Goodness you have put SO much work into this, what an incredible resource!! Thankyou! I can’t wait to read some books from your list ❤️
Thank you so much!! I hope you enjoy the books when you read them ❤️
Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” is phenomenal. The characters and community are vivid, the scenarios are universal. Made me think of Joyce’s “Dubliners”. Great video 🙂
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it =D
This was such a phenomenal video. Thank you for putting so much effort into helping us appreciate Chinese literature. I want to read ALL of them! :-)
Thank you so much for the sweet comment :D And I hope you enjoy them all! 😊
I was looking for a channel that gave recommended for Asian/Chinese Literature and I'm so glad I found your channel! Can't wait to read your recommendations :)
Thank you! glad you enjoyed the video!
I also love books written by Luxun and Yuhua. The book To Live is so great!
Thank you XD
exactly what i was hoping to findd thank u lots!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video!
悄悄来留言支持下！这个系列的推荐都很棒，能感觉到你对文学，以及对向英语世界的读者介绍中国文学的满满热爱~祝新年快乐，2019也加油呀>
太谢谢啦！你也新年快乐～ ❤️
I'm so happy you've brought all your recs to one place, I'm defo going to be using this regularly! I've read both sci fi stories, and I actually loved The Three Body Problem but I can see why it wouldn't be for everyone! I read Folding Beijing in a collection called Invisible Planets, which are all Chinese sci fi short stories translated by Ken Liu. The next volume, called Broken Stars, is also out this year so hopefully I'll be picking that up also!
Glad you loved the two science fictions! Thanks for information about Invisible planets, I think I’ll try again with science fiction and give that book a chance. Ken Liu is pretty awesome as a writer and also a translated! Hope you like the second volume!
i found your channel and is exactly what i was looking for, thank you so so much for your work!
What a wonderful video!! I have read most of the books or watched the adapted movie you listed here. They are all wonderful books. 🥰🥰🤩🤩
✨thank you for this! i started reading more books in translation about a year ago, so this is so helpful. i’ve added many of your recs to my TBR. the books To Live, Love in a Fallen City, Last, Caution & Diary of a Madman stood out to me, but your Sci-Fi picks sound good too😊 again, thank you for your work on this video! 💕
Thank you for sharing this excellent lesson
Yeah, finally someone talked about my favourite Chinese authors. I grew up studying Lu Xun, and I have always loved him, though some of his work made me very sad and depressed. My mother is a big fan of Eileen Zhang, and I am considering buying her the whole collection. I really love Lao She, and I felt that it was a pity he never got to finish his own memoir or autobiography, that short piece of work was my favourite. The adaptations of Jin Yong and Gu Long’s works are my favourite Chinese TV dramas. I am so so so happy that you could introduce Chinese literature to the English readers and I am looking forward to your future videos. I, myself haven’t read too many Chinese fictions for a long time, but I have a ton of historical non-fiction waiting on my shelf...
I'm so glad you liked this video! I agreed - some of Lu Xun's works were depressing and heartbreaking (a lot of books on this list are heartbreaking lol). I brought Zhang Ailing's whole collection one year after I got my red pocket money for Chinese New Year haha, her books are so great to read. I actually only read one Jin Yong (Legends of Condor Heroes) before because I was intimidated by his historical aspect, so I read all the Gu Longs I could find in my high school library and got entertained by Gu Long's stories haha. But I found now I'm ready to read more of Jin Yong. Thanks again!! If you found any good Chinese books (including fiction and non fiction) please let me know ❤️Happy reading!
So interesting! Thank you very much, I am so glad that I found your videos about Chinese literature!
where are you from??
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for the suggestions. I have made a note of several books to look out for in book stores. Lust, Caution and Mr Ma & Son both sound wonderful to me and I would be most excited to find those at my local bookstore! Wonderful video. I look forward to seeing more in the future!
Thank you so much for your sweet comment! Also you can try online or your local library, hope you enjoy Chinese books, happy reading!
YAY! Thanks so much for this! I'm taking my pen and paper out.📝✒️
Glad you found it’s helpful! 😊
Noted down all the ones that weren't already on my list and so glad you mentioned Red Sorghum, I loved that book. Thank you for highlighting all these wonderful books Meonicorn!
So nice to know you loved Red Sorghum, have you watched the movie?
No, I didn't realize until your video that there was one AND it has Gong Li in! Must search it out!
Thank you for this amazing video. I am starting to learn chinese this year, so this list will be very helpful. Thanks!
I love all of these suggestions!
Thank you!!
these recommendations are all super good!i haven't really read chinese literature except for a few danmei and i want to read more. this video gave me so many recommendations. cant wait to check out your other videos as well.
Thank you so much! Glad you find this video helpful, hope you enjoy the books if you decide to try some :D
I will definitly give the classics a try 😊 thanks for the recommendation
I hope you enjoy them :D Thanks for your comment 🥰
oooh i really appreciate the work you put into this! thank you for the recommendation
Thank you :D
Incredible indeed
A Concise Dictionary is one I've seen on other channels and already had on my tbr, but I hadn't heard of any of the others. This is such a useful video! I'm definitely saving this for future reference.
Thank you 😘😘😘 I’m so happy you found it helpful :D
Thank-you so much for your video ❤ I love Chinese literature and already follow an audio blog about that. The only thing I wish is that more Chinese fiction was available in English in audiobooks
Thank you so much for your comment! Yes, I hope more books are translated and more audio books available! What is the audio blog you like?
Thank you for this video, it was very helpful.
Thank you for watching!
I just found this channel. I love your post
Thanks! =D
Thanks a lot for the video!
thank you for watching!
Thank you for the effort for your Chinese literature series !!!
Thank you!
thank you for making this! i will check out some of these books. i appreciate your insight
Thank you for making this! It's exactly what I've been looking for :)
Such an amazing video , exactly what I was looking for - thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for your encouragement!
You must have put so much work in this video! Thank you so much. I have added a lot of these to my wishlist and will see what I end up picking up first. :)
I hope you enjoy all the books XD Thank you for your sweet comment!
Fantastic video to keep in mind when buying new books! I'm saving it for reference.
Thank you so much XDD
Girl this is h u g e and you are amazing!!! Thank you so so much for all of the love that you put into it
Thank you, you are so sweet!!
oh thank you for this video, it's sooo good!
A very nice, elaborate, informative and friendly video. Thank you so very much for sharing it! Looking forward to more like these. What I found really interesting (apart from the explanations) was the interesting book covers which show up in the Chinese aesthetic; learnt from it as well. Take care...
Thank you! It's an interesting observations of the book covers, and glad you enjoyed this video =D
终于找到推中国文学的youtuber!!!
=） 谢谢！
Thanks for your adept guidance!
Such an excellent video! I haven't read any Chinese Lit before, definitely going to get my hands on a few of these 😄
Thank you so much XD I'm glad you liked this video and I hope you enjoy the books! ❤️
yes go for it
So many great recommendations here!
Thank you Katie :D
This video is wonderful and so comprehensive! Thank you. 💜
Thank you :D I hope you found some books you are interested to read :D
thanks for this video, i'm Indonesian.
Thanks for commenting!
What an excellent resource! Thank you!
I'm glad you found it helpful XD
Good video, I ve a question what about Investiture of God 封神演義, Fēngshén yǎnyì ? I know it is not one of the four great classical novels in China but it deserves to be under the spotlights. I think is so sad that this title is not mentioned on youtube for Chinese literature (or it is rare). It is beautiful and well-known in China with its live adaptations. It was created during Ming dynasty (same period as journey to the west with sun wunkong). : (
Thank you!
Thank you! :)
So many books I’ve now added to my wishlist! I do own Half a Lifelong Romance so I want to read that soon. I definitely want to get some Lao She and get The Story Of the Stone. Thanks for putting this video together. I enjoyed The Three-Body Problem but I have continued the series. I need to do that. Great video! -Amy
Thank you so much Amy, I hope you enjoy Half a Lifelong Romance, Lao She seems to be people's popular choice after this video, I hope you enjoy his books too. Let me know your thoughts when you continue the series of Three Body Problem!
Hello. I have been learning Chinese for almost 3 years and recently I wanted to start reading Chinese novels, so I appreciate this video very much.. And I am gonna start with Eileen Chang and see how far I could go with the original Chinese. However I was wondering if you could recommend some interesting Chinese children /YA novels? ...they don't have to be translated in English.
Thanks alot for your efforts.
Would appreciate more videos about Chinese novels
Knowing that you have been learning chinese, I would recommend 郑渊洁 and 曹文轩s' books, if you are intriguing about children animals novels, 沈石溪's novels literally will
be a best option. However, nearly all of the writers' book have no English translations, but it's surely own easy vocabularies and simple description, accompaning myriad children's childhood. I think you can have a try on it whatever chinese words you have already mastered. Those book that I mentioned are effortless to find.
@@ZanplusFeliks thank you for your recommendation. I will appreciate it if you can write the pinyin of the authors' names.
@@ألاءعبدالله-ز6ج zheng yuan jie, cao wen xuan, shen shi xi
What a useful video! Please, come back with more videos like this one! I beg you!
This is amazing!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOUUU!!!
This book reminded me to read more Xiao Hong. I read the field of life and death and fell into a xiao hong reading slump because that book was.. missing something. I think it was missing the children’s register. Still, she has definitely written other books!
Thank you for this video. Im from Malaysia and just recently got interested in Chinese literature as i find Tangshin poetry. Then, i started read Ha Jin, Mo Yan and most recent is Mai Jia which has been translated to Malay language.
Thank you for your nice comment! And I apologize for the late reply, I wasn't around on BookTube for the past months. I'm glad you enjoyed this video! And I'm glad that you enjoyed those books and they have been translated into Malay languages! I'm planning to read an Malaysia book called The Garden of Evening Mists in English, do you know if it's translated from Malay language?
@@TheBookishLand i think that book written by Tash Aw of Malaysia origin. It has been adapted to film this year. The book never translated to Malay. Afaik, its in English. I hope it will be translated soon.
It's very helpful for me,
Thank you mam
Great content, subscribed, liked!
So helpful, thank you so much! :-)
So interesting to hear you say that about Three Body Problem!
I also got kind of mad at it. I think it was the characters motivations?
I thought maybe it was just because i’m not Chinese and i was missing finer points or context but maybe not!
Also, Lui Ken is fun! I didn’t really like the roles he gave female characters in the first book of the Dandelion Dynasty, but as the books go on this changes, and it becomes more obvious why he did it the way he did.
Thank you for your work to make this great video! I’m exited to read some of these.
Ohh thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on Three Body Problem, and yes, the motivations of the characters are soooo messed up, I can feel you! Also I didn't like the flat writing of characters especially female characters, ugh, still frustrated with the book after reading it for more than 10 years LOL.
Oh I haven't read much of Ken's books since I'm not a big fantasy reader, but I heard so much good things about his writing and always wanted to try! I'm glad you found this video useful!
@@TheBookishLand This is a typical phenomenon found in certain Sci-fi works where the characters play a minor role to the world building and philosophical investigations. Isaac Asimov’s stories are often like this.
This is fantastic. Thank you so much for doing all of this research and putting it together. I wrote down nine books I wanna check out! ☺️ - Rebecca
Thank you so much XD I hope you enjoy the books you are going to read ❤️
This video is great! I'm drawn to Dictionary for Lovers because I'm in a cross-cultural, two language relationship (if that's even a thing), and I think I'll relate with their struggles. I'm currently reading a book about life in London, so Mr. Ma and Son looks like it would be a perfect follow up. So many books so little time! 😅😂
Thank you
Good. keep it up. From Pakistan.
Good job!#
谢谢 😊
不用谢！😆
Hi - thanks for getting back to me. I would have NEVER guessed you studied business in college when you're such a master
in literature. Wow. Is it too personal to ask what you do work wise in life (generally or vaguely). How much time do you spend reading each week?
Thanks again! And I'm by no means a master of anything 🙈I'm guessing you are just finding out our BookTube community through my channel - here on TH-cam there are many people doing bookish content like me :) I'm sure TH-cam will recommend you some because you watched my video. Over time you will find out more of us you like :D And yes, please don't mind me if I want to keep my private life private, I believe you will understand 🥰
Ok. The Story of Stone it is! Thank you so much for this video.
You are going to enjoy The Story of the Stone, check out my introduction video for it when you are ready, and remember to check out the discussions we had on the Goodreads Group, I think they will be helpful! And also I'm always ready to discuss the book at any time! xx
Thanks! Is there anyway to connect with you on Voxer?
Books I'm Not Reading I’m on Voxer as “Meonicorn The Bookish Land”, but I don’t know how to find people so I’m not sure if you can add me only by the name? If you need email address to find my account it’s “book.meonicorn@gmail.com” 😊
It's funny how the three body problem is the only one I ever read and it's actually brilliant in my opinion!
I’m glad you loved it! I heard the English translation version is a lot better, but I just can’t bring myself to read it again lol
I read it in Italian actually, but I just checked and the translation is from the English version, so again looks like they made a good job there in the first place!
I think it depends a lot on your background... I studied physics at the university, so I guess I really appreciated how realistic and original it is for being a sci-fy novel
haha I didn’t know there is an Italian version! I didn’t have a problem with physics and I think the science fiction setting is good. I didn’t like the flat characters especially to female characters and the misogyny tone of writing them. But it’s just my personal take and I have friends who love it too :)
I see, still I didn't even notice while reading it 😅
my question with the classics is WHICH EDITION ???
ni hao. I am from Pakistan and trying to learn chinese. I like the language and want to learn the literary trends and literature of this languagd.
Thank you, for I love Amy Tan's books, but I read all ethnic groups. The more we are different, the more we are the same.
Thank you! I hope this video is helpful :)
Which Chinese (in English) would you recommend that are taken place in China during the 90's or early 2000's?
I have bought 'Brothers' and 'China in Ten Words' by Yu Hua, but am looking for a few more by different Chinese authors.
umm maybe 《平凡的世界》？
《Ordinary World》 by Lu Yao,I'm not sure its English name
@@名姓-b1k ok, thanks, seems perfect, but maybe hard to find in English.
@@hammothw4814 You are well come.Actually I haven't read it yet,but my teacher in junior high school recommended it.
Wuxia is not fantasy, though :)
imo it's a sub-genre of fantasy
Are we related? You on that gangster shyt y'all poisoned me as a baby.
Thank you!