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Chinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century and flowered in the 20th with such authors as Sui Sin Far, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan.

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Chinese American literature

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Chinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent. The genre began in the 19th century...

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Chinese literature

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The history of Chinese literature extends thousands of years, and begins with the earliest recorded inscriptions, court archives, building to the major...

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American literature

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American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition...

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Latin American literature

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Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the...

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Asian American literature

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American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Since the 1970s, Asian American literature has...

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Chinese classics

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The Chinese classics or canonical texts are the works of Chinese literature authored prior to the establishment of the imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC...

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Literature

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c. 5th century BC) and Chinese history (e.g. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, c. 94 BC). Ancient Chinese literature had a heavy emphasis on...

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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

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literature, the role of women, and the relationship with non-Chinese languages and ethnic minorities. There are also chapters on Chinese literature in...

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History of literature

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city. Chinese mythology played a notable role in the earliest Chinese literature, though it was less prominent compared to mythological literature in other...

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Japanese literature

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notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or lit. 'Chinese writing' (漢文, kanbun), a Chinese-Japanese creole...

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History of Chinese Americans

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The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United...

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The Paper Menagerie

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story revolves around Jack, the first-generation American son of a white American father and a Chinese immigrant mail-order bride mother. As a child, Jack...

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Sinophone

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purposes to mean "Chinese-speaking" or "written in Chinese". Sau-ling Wong used it to designate Chinese American literature written in "Chinese" as opposed...

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List of Chinese Americans

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is a list of notable Chinese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants who have made...

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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature

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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature is a 2-volume history book series published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. The books were edited by...

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A History of Chinese Literature

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of Chinese Literature is a history of Chinese literature written by Herbert Giles, and published in 1901. Although there had been surveys of Chinese literature...

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Asian literature

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Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia. East Asian literature Chinese literature Japanese literature Korean literature Mongolian literature Taiwanese...

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Classic Chinese Novels

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Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera Classic Chinese Novels (traditional Chinese: 古典小說; simplified Chinese: 古典小说; pinyin: gǔdiǎn xiǎoshuō) are the best-known...

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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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all ethnically Chinese parents necessarily practice strict child-rearing techniques.: 4  Chua also reported that in one study of 48 Chinese immigrant mothers...

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Han Chinese

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Chinese language, Chinese literature, Chinese music, Chinese mythology, Chinese numerology, Chinese philosophy, and Chinese theatre all have undergone...

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Maxine Hong Kingston

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awards for her contributions to Chinese American literature, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1981 for China Men. Kingston has received...

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World literature

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World literature is used to refer to the total of the world's national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country...

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Chinese language

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Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. 'Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages...

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American Dream

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to its widespread use in the Chinese media. The concept of the Chinese Dream is very similar to the idea of the American Dream. It stresses entrepreneurship...

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