modern Chinese literature
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Modern Chinese literature is the body of Chinese writing from the late 19th century onward that embraces vernacular language, new literary forms, and modern themes in response to social and political change.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| modern Chinese literature canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9046733 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: modern Chinese literature Context triple: [Hu Shi, influenced, modern Chinese literature]
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Meiji literature
Meiji literature refers to the body of Japanese writing produced during the Meiji era (1868–1912), marked by rapid modernization, Western influence, and the emergence of the modern Japanese novel.
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Modern New Confucianism
Modern New Confucianism is a 20th-century revival and reinterpretation of Confucian thought that emphasizes moral self-cultivation, humanism, and engagement with modern philosophical currents such as democracy, science, and liberalism.
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Vietnamese literature
Vietnamese literature is the body of written and oral works produced in the Vietnamese language, reflecting the country’s historical experiences, cultural values, and philosophical and religious influences from ancient to modern times.
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Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese is the traditional written form of the Chinese language that served for centuries as the literary and scholarly standard across East Asia.
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Chinese Wikisource
Chinese Wikisource is the Chinese-language edition of Wikisource, a free online digital library of public domain and freely licensed texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: modern Chinese literature Target entity description: Modern Chinese literature is the body of Chinese writing from the late 19th century onward that embraces vernacular language, new literary forms, and modern themes in response to social and political change.
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A.
Meiji literature
Meiji literature refers to the body of Japanese writing produced during the Meiji era (1868–1912), marked by rapid modernization, Western influence, and the emergence of the modern Japanese novel.
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B.
Modern New Confucianism
Modern New Confucianism is a 20th-century revival and reinterpretation of Confucian thought that emphasizes moral self-cultivation, humanism, and engagement with modern philosophical currents such as democracy, science, and liberalism.
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C.
Vietnamese literature
Vietnamese literature is the body of written and oral works produced in the Vietnamese language, reflecting the country’s historical experiences, cultural values, and philosophical and religious influences from ancient to modern times.
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D.
Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese is the traditional written form of the Chinese language that served for centuries as the literary and scholarly standard across East Asia.
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E.
Chinese Wikisource
Chinese Wikisource is the Chinese-language edition of Wikisource, a free online digital library of public domain and freely licensed texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (94)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese literature period
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literary tradition ⓘ |
| developedInContextOf |
May Fourth Movement
NERFINISHED
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New Culture Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ People's Republic of China NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of China on Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ Republic of China period ⓘ late Qing dynasty reforms ⓘ |
| follows | classical Chinese literature ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure |
Ba Jin
NERFINISHED
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Bei Dao NERFINISHED ⓘ Can Xue NERFINISHED ⓘ Cao Yu NERFINISHED ⓘ Ding Ling NERFINISHED ⓘ Eileen Chang NERFINISHED ⓘ Gao Xingjian NERFINISHED ⓘ Guo Moruo NERFINISHED ⓘ Han Shaogong NERFINISHED ⓘ Hu Shi NERFINISHED ⓘ Jia Pingwa NERFINISHED ⓘ Lao She NERFINISHED ⓘ Li Ang NERFINISHED ⓘ Lu Xun NERFINISHED ⓘ Mao Dun NERFINISHED ⓘ Mo Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Pai Hsien-yung NERFINISHED ⓘ Qian Zhongshu NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanmao NERFINISHED ⓘ Shen Congwen NERFINISHED ⓘ Tian Han NERFINISHED ⓘ Tie Ning NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang Anyi NERFINISHED ⓘ Yu Hua NERFINISHED ⓘ Zhang Ailing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyTheme |
Cultural Revolution memory
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critique of feudalism ⓘ ethnic and regional cultures ⓘ gender and feminism ⓘ identity and subjectivity ⓘ migration and diaspora ⓘ modernization and Westernization ⓘ national salvation ⓘ revolution and class struggle ⓘ rural-urban divide ⓘ trauma of war ⓘ |
| hasKeyWork |
Border Town
NERFINISHED
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Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ Call to Arms NERFINISHED ⓘ Diary of a Madman NERFINISHED ⓘ Family NERFINISHED ⓘ Fortress Besieged NERFINISHED ⓘ Midnight NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Sorghum NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickshaw Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Republic of Wine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Song of Everlasting Sorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ The True Story of Ah Q NERFINISHED ⓘ To Live NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacteristic |
adoption of new literary forms
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experimentation with narrative form ⓘ focus on modern social and political themes ⓘ individual subjectivity ⓘ realism ⓘ use of vernacular language instead of classical Chinese ⓘ |
| hasRelatedField |
Chinese literary criticism
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comparative literature ⓘ translation studies ⓘ |
| hasStartTime | late 19th century ⓘ |
| hasSubPeriod |
May Fourth literature
NERFINISHED
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avant-garde literature of the 1980s ⓘ contemporary Chinese literature after 1978 ⓘ left-wing literature of the 1930s ⓘ root-seeking literature ⓘ scar literature ⓘ socialist realist literature in the PRC ⓘ wartime literature against Japan ⓘ |
| includesGenre |
modern Chinese drama
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modern Chinese essay ⓘ modern Chinese fiction ⓘ modern Chinese poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chinese classical literary tradition
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Enlightenment thought ⓘ Japanese literature ⓘ Marxism NERFINISHED ⓘ Russian literature ⓘ Western literature ⓘ |
| isStudiedIn | Chinese departments at universities worldwide ⓘ |
| isWrittenIn |
Hong Kong
NERFINISHED
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Mainland China NERFINISHED ⓘ Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ overseas Chinese communities ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
baihua
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vernacular Chinese ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: modern Chinese literature Description of subject: Modern Chinese literature is the body of Chinese writing from the late 19th century onward that embraces vernacular language, new literary forms, and modern themes in response to social and political change.
Referenced by (1)
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