Grade 8: Introduction to Chinese Literature

1. CHINA
- biggest nation in Asia
- one of the earliest
civilizations

2. Chinese Dynasties
- an era wherein one powerful
clan rules the others
- ruled by an Emperor (Tian Zhi)
- rulers are given the title by the
Mandate of Heaven

3. How does these warring
states affect its
writers?

4. Biographical Influence
- a writer's work is
influenced by his
environment and what
happened in his time.

5. CONFUCIUS/
KUNG FU TZU

6. a son of a nobleman but due to his
father's death, he experienced
poverty.
Wrote the Lun Yu or THE ANALECTS
-a book which talks about moral
conduct
- filial piety (the love of one's family)

7. SUN TZU

8. a war general who led a very small
army from the State of Wu which
defeated the Chu army which was 10
times larger than them.
Wrote the ART OF WAR
-the oldest military treatise in the
world