Tag: Chinese Literature

Views on Chinese Talent Shows

像《中国好声音》、《中国最强音》、《中国梦之声》和《快乐男声》这类选秀节目正在对观众进行轮番轰炸。 Talent shows like The Voice of China, The X Factor, Chinese Idol, and Super Boy are bombarding TV audiences.

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What’s Chengyu?

What's Chengyu? Chengyu (Chinese: 成语, pinyin: chéngyǔ ) are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four characters. Chengyu were widely used in Classical Chinese and are still common in modern Chinese writing and in the spoken language today. There are about 5,000 chengyu in the Chinese language according to the most stringent definition, though some dictionaries list over 20,000. They are often referred to as Chinese idioms or four-character idioms; however, they are not the only idioms in Chinese.

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China’s Story of the Stone: the best book

The Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of The death of the elderly Chinese scholar Zhou Ruchang draws attention to a startling fact: that China’s greatest work of literature, the 18th-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber, on which Professor Zhou was an acknowledged – and somewhat obsessive – expert, is still virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. And yet a complete and highly readable English translation has been available in Penguin Classics for nearly 30 years.

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