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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