Chinese literature is among the most imaginative and interesting in the world. The precision of the language results in perfectly realized images whether in poetry or prose and, as with all great literature, the themes are timeless. The Chinese valued literature highly and even had a god of literature named Wen Chang, also known as Wendi, Wen Ti.
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c. 1600 BCE - 1000 BCEEarly Chinese ghost stories written in China.
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626 CE - 649 CEWoodblock printing process develops under reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
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701 CE - 761 CELife of Wang Wei, great Chinese poet and painter.
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701 CE - 762 CELife of Li Po, greatest poet of the Tang Dynasty.
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712 CE - 770 CELife of the poet Du Fu, great poet of Tang Dynasty.
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768 CE - 824 CELife of Han Yu, "the Shakespeare of China".
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772 CE - 846 CELife of Bai Juyi, greatest poet of later Tang Dynasty, author of "Song of Everlasting Sorrow".
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806 CETragic love affair of Xuanzong and Lady Yang immortalized in Chinese poem "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" by Bai Juyi.
