Sources for modern Literary Chinese

[WeilaiDaren]

Are there any sources for more recent books in Literary Chinese?

 

I really like this language, but I lack interest for ancient literature.

 

As Classical Chinese was the main form of writing until 1919, there should be a huge amount of more modern texts out there, but they are no where to be found so it seems...

[alantin]

Where exactly have you looked?!

It's a country with a population of 1,4 billion people producing insane amounts of texts every day!
 

 

You should find good book recommendations in many threads here.

Just to mention a few:

 

https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/2034-what-are-you-reading/#comment-17643

https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/61753-modern-short-stories-recommendations/#comment-483505

https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/61692-refilling-the-pipeline/

 

 

As to where to look for them, here is one good site for that: https://www.99csw.com/index.php

If you fancy buying physical books, the two I've used are taobao and amazon.

 

[Publius]

Like 聊齋志異?

Google 明清筆記小說.

[Kenny同志]

Many modern authors wrote in classical Chinese, e.g.  蔣介石, 蕭公權, 柳詒徵, 陳寅恪, 錢鍾書, 章太炎, 魯迅, and 鄭逸梅. Try searching for their works. 

[alantin]

Aa! Kenny同志's reply only made me realize what was being asked! ?
Modern texts in Classical Chinese! How interesting! I hadn't even realized that it is still used actively today.

[Guest realmayo]

Some suggestions in this thread too: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/56264-late-文言文？/

Also an online textbook from 1912: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/61417-progressive-exercises-in-the-chinese-written-language-by-bullock-tl-1912