Chinese and East Asian Novel Traditions

Novel and popular-fiction forms specific to the Chinese-language and Korean literary traditions, grouped separately from Japanese Novel Traditions because they belong to a distinct publishing history and readership. Includes the caizi jiaren scholar-and-beauty romance tradition of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the modern Chinese danmei genre of homoerotic fiction and its Taiwanese tongzhi literature counterpart, the early twentieth-century Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies school of popular Chinese fiction, the scar literature that portrayed the suffering of cadres and intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution era, and the Korean sinsoseol genre that developed during the Korean Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.