Quattuor magnae mythistoriae classicae
Quattuor magnae mythistoriae classicae sunt opera Sinensia inter annum 1300 et 1800 scripta. Ea sunt valde celebria in Sinis et creduntur esse praestantissima exempla litteraturae Sinensis. Veterrimus eorum Margo Aquae est, qui scriptus est saeculo quarto decimo. Secunda scriptu est Fabula Trium Regnorum, ex eodem saeculo. Tertium est Iter Ad Occidentem, saeclo sexto decimo scriptum et quartum opus est Somnium Cubiculi Rubri, saeclo duodevicesimo scriptum. Haec opera magnopere innotuere in partibus Orientis Extremi, imprimis in Iaponia et Corea extra Sinis.

Opera 
Servato temporis ordine sunt:
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!Latine !! Sinice simpliciter !! Sinice traditionaliter !! Pinyin !! Auctor attribuitus !! Tempus
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|Margo Aquae || 水浒传 || 水滸傳 || Shuǐhǔ Zhuàn || Shi Nai'an<ref> Dum fabula plerique tribuuntur ad Shi Nai'an, erant tamen qui fabula, vel partes eius, scriptas esse ab aliis sicut Luo Guanzhong (auctore Fabula Trium Regnorum ), Shi Hui (施惠) et Guo Xun (郭 勛) crediderunt.</ref> || 14 saeculum
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|Fabula Trium Regnorum || 三国演义 || 三國演義 || Sānguó Yǎnyì || Luo Guanzhong || 14 saeculum 
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|Iter Ad Occidentem || 西游记 || 西遊記 || Xī Yóu Jì || Wu Cheng'en || 16 saeculum 
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|Somnium Cubiculi Rubri || 红楼梦 || 紅樓夢 || Hóng Lóu Mèng || Cao Xueqin || 18 saeculum
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 Notae 

 Bibliographia 
  279p. Explores the Ming world of fiction and ideas of historical change; the hero; social, political, cosmic order and morality; and reactions to the growth of imperial despotism.
 
 
  rpr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980; 413p. ISBN  0253202582). A key introduction for Western general readers to six novels considered in China to be the classics: Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi yanyi); Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan); Journey to the West (Xiyou ji); Golden Lotus, or Plum in the Golden Vase (Jinpingmei); The Scholars (Rulin waishi); and Story of the Stone (Hongloumeng or Shitou ji)
 
 
Lu Xun, A Brief History of Chinese Fiction. (Foreign Languages Press, 1959 Translated by Gladys Yang and Yang Xianyi. Various Reprints). China’s leading early 20th-century writer surveyed traditional fiction in this pioneering survey, based on a series of 1923 lectures, in order to serve as a basis for modern writers.
 
  A seminal exploration of 'literati novels.' Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin (or, Men of the Marshes), Journey to the West, and Golden Lotus (or Plum in a Golden Vase).
  534 p. Chinese critics of the 17th and 18th centuries wrote commentaries – called dufa ("how to read") – which were interspersed in the text so that the text and the commentary formed one experience for the reader. Scholars in this volume translate and introduce such commentaries for the six now classic novels.
  Introductory article summarizing scholarship in the field.
 .  Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi yanyi); Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan); Journey to the West (Xiyou ji); Golden Lotus, or Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei); The Scholars (Rulin waishi); and Story of the Stone'' (Hongloumeng or Shitou ji).

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