China

BC 5C – BC 3C: Warring States / Qin

• (ANONYMOUS)
  • Terracotta Army (BC 210)

BC 2C – 3C: Han Dynasty

• (ANONYMOUS)
  • Funerary Murals of the Han Dynasty (BC 2 – AD 2)

7C – 9C: Tang Dynasty

• WU Daozi
  • Murals in Daoist and Buddhist temples (710-760)
• ZHAO Boju
  • Court painting and landscapes (8C)

10C – 13C: Song Dynasty

• FAN Kuan
  • Travelers among Mountains and Streams (1000)
• LI Cheng
  • Mountain and River Landscapes (10C)
• SU Shi
  • Calligraphy and painting (1037-1101)

14C – 17C: Yuan / Ming

• SHEN Zhou
  • Lofty Mount Lu (1467)
  • Poetry and landscape paintings (15C)
• WU Zhen
  • Bamboo and plum paintings (14C)

17C – 18C: Qing Dynasty

• QIAN Xuan
  • Bamboo and bird paintings (17C)
• JIAO Xingzhong
  • Court landscapes (18C)

19C – 20C: Late Qing / Republican Era

• LIU Hongshan
  • Modern ink landscapes (19C-20C)

BC 5C – BC 3C: Ancient Music

• (ANONYMOUS)
  • Guqin compositions (BC 500)
  • Yayue court music (BC 200)

7C-9C: Tang Dynasty

• LIU Tang
  • Melody for Pipa (750)
• KUANG Hua
  • Buddhist ritual music (820)

14C-17C: Ming / Early Qing

• WANG Zhenyi
  • Court orchestral arrangements (1570)
• YANG Tingxu
  • Traditional instrumental pieces (1620)

19C-20C: Late Qing / Modern

• CHEN Ying
  • Modern adaptations of guqin and pipa music (1902-1920)

BC 5C – BC 3C: Warring States / Qin

• CONFUCIUS | philosophy
  • The Analects (BC 5C)
• MENCIUS | philosophy
  • The Mencius (BC 4C)
• SUN TZU | philosophy
  • The Art of War (BC 5C)
• XUN Zi
  • Xunzi (BC 310 – BC 235)

BC 3C – 2C: Han Dynasty

• SIMA Qian
  • Records of the Grand Historian (BC 91)
• ZHUANG Zi
  • Zhuangzi (BC 300)

7C-9C: Tang Dynasty

• DU Fu
  • Collected Poems (712-770)
• LI Bai
  • Selected Poems (701-762)
• WANG Wei
  • Poetry and landscape essays (701-761)

10C-13C: Song Dynasty

• SU Shi
  • Poems (1037-1101)
  • Essays (1037-1101)
  • Calligraphy treatises (1040-1101)
• SU Zhe
  • Poems and prose (1039-1112)
• ZHOU Dunyi
  • Taiji diagram and cosmological essays (1017-1073)

14C-17C: Ming / Qing

• LI Zhi
  • Essays on human nature and morality (1527-1602)
• WANG Yangming
  • Instructions for Practical Living (1527)
  • Unity of Knowledge and Action (1527)
• SHEN Fu
  • Six Records of a Floating Life (1807)

18C-19C: Qing Dynasty

• CAO Xueqin
  • Dream of the Red Chamber (1791)

20C: Modern & Contemporary

• LU Xun
  • A Madman’s Diary (1918)
  • The True Story of Ah Q (1921)
• BA Jin
  • Family (1931)
  • Spring (1938)
• MO Yan
  • Red Sorghum (1986)
  • Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1995)
• YANG Ling
  • Essays on science and philosophy (1980s)
• Philosophy: 공자, 노자, 노장철학, 장자, 맹자, 도가, 순자, 한비자
• 동양고전: 경학, 서경, 시경, 예기, 춘추류, 효경(china, korea), 사서, 고문진보, 근사록/전국책, 대학/중용, 논어, 역학, 명심보감(china, korea), 채근담(china, japan, korea), 사기열전, 기타고전

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