Literature

• Li Po He is also known as Li Bai, a Chinese poet who is a competitor of Du Fu as China's greatest poet. He was romantic in his personal life and his poetry. His works are known for its conversational tone and vivid imagery. He wrote the poem "Alone and Drinking under the Moon" that deals with the ancient social custom of drinking.
• Wang Wei He was a poet, painter, musician, and statesman during the Tang dynasty (the golden ages of the Chinese cultural history). He was the established founder of the respected Southern school of painter-poets. Many of his best poems were inspired by the local landscape
• Mo Yan He was a fictionist who won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. His first novel was "Red Sorghum", and still his best-known work. It tells the story of the Chinese battling Japanese intruders as well as each other during the 1930s. It relates the story of a family in a rural area in turbulent time.
• Yu Hua He was a world-acclaimed short story writer and considered as a champion for Chinese meta- fictional or postmodernist writing. His widely acclaimed novel "To Live" describes the struggles endured by the son of a wealthy land-owner while historical events caused and extended by the Chinese Revolution are fundamentally altering the nature of Chinese society
• Hangul Korean's distinct writing system and national alphabet