China
See also: Chinese literature- Cao Xueqin, (c. 1715–1763), author of Dream of the Red Chamber
- Dai Sijie, author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Gao Xingjian, exile and Nobel laureate
- Han Shaogong, (born 1953)
- Lao She (1899–1966), author of Si Shi Tong Tang
- Li Yu (author)
- Lu Xun (1881–1936), author of The True Story of Ah Q and first modernist writer in China
- Mao Dun (1896–1981), author of Zi Ye
- Mo Yan, author of Red Sorghum
- Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998), author of Wei Cheng
- Wang Shuo
- Wei Jingsheng, democracy activist and political prisoner
- Zhang Ailing (1920–1995), female romantic story writer
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“In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)
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Aged in wrong, the empires are declining,
And China gathers, soundlessly, like evidence.
What shall I say to the young on such a morning?—
Mind is the one salvation?—also grammar?—
No; my little ones lean not toward revolt.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)