Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the languages of China.
A
B
- Bai Juyi or Bo Juyi
- Consort Ban
- Ban Gu (32–92 A.D.)[1]
- Bei Dao
- Bei Ling
- Bian Zhilin
C
- Cai Wenji
- Cai Yong
- Cao Cao 曹操
- Cao Pi
- Cao Zhi
- Cen Shen
- Chen Sanli
- Chen Yinke
- Chen Zi'ang
- Chūgan Engetsu (1300–1375), Japanese poet who wrote in Chinese, a figure in "Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains" (literature in Chinese written in Japan)
- Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
D
- Dai Biaoyuan
- Dai Wangshu
- Dong Xiaowan
- Du Fu 杜甫, the "Poet Sage"
- Du Mu (803-852), Tang poet, official
- Duo Duo
E
F
- Fei Ye 菲野
- Fenggan, "Big Stick", a legendary Buddhist Monk. He was an associate of the famous legendary poets Han Shan and Shih Te.
G
- Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
- Gidō Shūshin
- Gong Zizhen
- Gu Cheng
- Gu Taiqing
- Guan Daosheng
- Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
H
- Hai Zi 海子, modern mystic poet
- Han Yu 韩愈
- Han Shan, "Cold Mountain"
- He Zhizhang
- Huang Tingjian 黄庭堅 (1045–1105)
- Huarui Furen
- Huang Zongxi
I
J
- Jao Tsung-I
- Jia Dao 贾岛
- Jia Yi
- Jiang Yan
K
L
- Leung Ping-kwan[2]
- Li E
- Li Bai (Li Po), the "Poet Immortal"
- Li He
- Li Qiao
- Li Qingzhao
- Li Shangyin
- Li Yu (Li Houzhu)
- Liang Desheng
- Liang Huang
- Lin Huiyin
- Liu Yuxi
- Liu Zongyuan
- Lu Guimong
- Lu Ji
- Lu You
- Lu Yu
- Lu Zhaolin
- Lu Zhi
- Luo Binwang
M
- Ma Rong
- Mang Ke
- Mao Zedong
- Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
- Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
- Mi Heng
- Mu Dan
N
- Natsume Sōseki, Japan's modern composer of Chinese poetry
- Nalan Xingde
- Nie Gannu
O
P
Q
- Qian Zhongshu
- Qiu Jin
- Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
- Quan Deyu
- Qiao Ji
R
S
- Shangguan Wan'er（上官婉儿）
- Shen Shanbao（沈善宝）
- Shen Yue（沈约）
- Shen Quanqi（沈佺期）
- Shi Zhi"index finger"（食指，郭路生）
- Shih-Te, "Pick-Up"（拾得）
- Shih-wu, "Stonehouse"（石屋）
- Shivaza Iasyr, wrote in the Dungan (Soviet Hui people) dialect（雅斯尔·十娃子 or 亚瑟尔·十娃子）
- Shu Ting（舒婷）
- Sima Xiangru（司马相如）
- Song Yu（宋玉）
- Su Shi （苏轼）
- Su Xiaoxiao（苏小小）
- Shang Ting （商挺）
T
- Tao Qian, also known as Tao Yuanming
W
- Wang Anshi
- Wang Bo
- Wang Can
- Wang Changling
- Wang Rong
- Wang Wei (Tang dynasty), the "Poet Buddha"
- Wang Wei (17th-century poet)
- Wang Yi-Ch'eng, poet
- Wang Yun (Qing dynasty)
- Wei Yuan
- Wei Zhuang
- Wen Tingyun
- Wen Yiduo
- Wu Cheng'en, Ming novelist, poet
- Wu Jiaji
- Wu Zao[3]
X
- Xi Chuan
- Xi Kang (or Ji Kang)
- Xi Xi
- Xiao Gang (Emperor Jianwen of Liang)
- Xie Lingyun
- Xie Tiao
- Xin Qiji
- Lady Xu Mu
- Xu Zhi Mo 1895–1931, melancholic poet of early 20th century
- Xu Zihua
- Xue Tao 768-831
Y
- Yang Jiong
- Yang Lian
- Yang Wanli
- Yang Xiong
- Yao Shouzhong
- Yao Sui
- John Yau
- Chia-ying Yeh
- Yu Xin
- Yu Xiuhua
- Yu Xuanji
- Yuan Hongdao
- Yuan Zhen
- Yuan Zhongdao
Z
- Zhai Yongming
- Zhang Heng
- Zhang Hua
- Zhang Ji (poet from Hubei)
- Zhang Ji (poet from Jiangnan)
- Zhang Jiuling
- Zhang Xu
- Zhang Yaotiao (Tang courtesan poet)[4]
- Zhao Luanluan (Yuan dynasty poet)[5]
- Zhao Luorui
- Zhang Zhidong
- Zheng Min
- Zheng Yunduan
- Zhu Shuzhen
- Zhuo Wenjun
- Zuo Si
See also
- Chinese poetry
- List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
- List of Chinese authors
- List of Chinese women writers
- List of Hong Kong poets
Notes
- ^ Minford, John, and Joseph S. M. Lau, Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations, New York: Columbia University Press ISBN 0-231-09676-3 and Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press ISBN 962-201-625-1 , 2000
- ^ "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Leung Ping-kwan". Asiancha.com. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
- ^ Barnstone, Tony; Chou, Ping (2010). The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary. pp. 341–42. ISBN 978-0307481474.
- ^ Chang, Kang-i Sun; Saussy, Haun; Kwong, Charles Yim-tze (1999). Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism. p. 79. ISBN 0804732310.
- ^ Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Wiles, Sue (2015). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang Through Ming 618-1644. Volume II. pp. 899–900. ISBN 978-1317515616.