The " Gong An story " （ 公案小说, literally ：" case records of a public law court "） is the earliest known genre of Chinese detective fiction.

In modern Chinese culture, jianghu is commonly accepted as an alternative universe coexisting with the actual historical one in which the context of the wuxia genre was set.

Wuxia, literally " martial hero ", is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists.

Wuxia stories have become a new genre of writing within Chinese society and have remained popular in several countries with significant Chinese-speaking communities, such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Chinese Sanqu poetry was a Chinese poetic genre from the Jin Dynasty, 1115 – 1234, through the Yuan Dynasty, ( 1271 – 1368 ), to the following Ming period.

During the 1980s, Hung was instrumental in the creating the genre of Jiang Shi (; literally " stiff corpse "), the Jiang Shi being hopping re-animated corpses-a Chinese equivalent to Western vampires.

These films meld Chinese folklore with special effects and kung fu action to create a genre that is uniquely Chinese.

The landscape genre of Chinese nature poetry emerged under the brush of Xie Lingyun ( 385-433 ), as he innovated distinctively descriptive and complementary couplets composed of five-character lines.

To the translation he appended an essay on the genre in which he suggested that it was easy to imagine rewriting some of the old Chinese case histories with an eye toward modern readers.

It also has elements of comedy and the " Buddy Cop " film genre, as it involves two men of different personalities and ethnicities ( a Chinese imperial guard and a Western outlaw ) who team up to stop a crime.

The Maoists, during the Cultural Revolution, pushed revolutionary music as the only acceptable genre ; because of propaganda, this genre largely overshadowed all others and came almost to define mainland Chinese music.

This genre of music, in a sense, is similar to the Chinese language.

Chinese popular music found its beginnings in the shidaiqu genre.

Punk rock became famous in China around 1994 – 1996 with the first Chinese artist of the post punk genre being He Yong and his debut record Garbage Dump.

Qu You (, 1341 – 1427 ), courtesy name Zongji ( 宗吉 ) and self-nicknamed Cunzhai ( 存齋, " Reading Studio of Existence "), was a Chinese novelist who lived in the Ming Dynasty, and whose works inspired a new genre fantasy works with political subtext of the Qing Dynasty.

In Chinese, Yuefu, " Music Bureau ", is synonymous with yuefu the poetry style, thus the term Yuefu has come to refer both to the Music Bureau's collected lyrics and to the genre of which they are representative and a source of inspiration.

Struan has a Chinese mistress, May-may, and their romance is developed within the conventions of the genre as the basis for the novel's optimistic theme of cross-cultural fusion.

The khrueang sai ensemble is primarily used for instrumental indoor performances and for accompanying the Thai hoon grabok ( stick-puppet theater ), a genre deeply influenced by Chinese puppetry styles.

According to the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, in Chinese poetry Mahler found what he had formerly sought in the genre of German folk song: a mask or costume for the sense of rootlessness or " otherness " attending his identity as a Jew.

It was stated that " the sexual suggestiveness of the genre " was the reason for it being banned, but it is believed that the real reason was because the difference in style from prior Chinese folk opera styles allowed social critique of China to be written into them.

Hailed as the progenitor of the Chinese landscape poetry genre ( Shanshui poetry ), the reputation of Xie Lingyun as a great poet remains secure, as it has for over a thousand years.

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible ( or at least non-supernatural ) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes, aliens, and paranormal abilities.

De Camp's most highly regarded works in the genre are his time travel and alternate history stories, including Lest Darkness Fall ( 1939 ), " The Wheels of If " ( 1940 ), " A Gun for Dinosaur " ( 1956 ), " Aristotle and the Gun " ( 1958 ), and The Glory That Was ( 1960 ) – in the last of which the " time travel " actually turns out to be a tour de force of historical recreation.

Many elements of space travel series and films borrow extensively from the conventions of the Western genre.

The science fiction genre also contains a couple of historical sub-genres ; alternate history such as Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna, and time travel with historical settings, such as the " Company " stories of Kage Baker.

Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that are not necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial life forms, alien worlds, extrasensory perception, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar space travel or other technologies.

Stanley Kubrick ’ s 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) brought new realism to the genre, with its groundbreaking visual effects and realistic portrayal of space travel and influenced the genre with its epic story and transcendent philosophical scope.

“ Ultimately, the primary goal of the creative nonfiction writer is to communicate information, just like a reporter, but to shape it in a way that reads like fiction .” Forms within this genre include biography, food writing, literary journalism, memoirs, personal essays, travel writing, and other hybridized essays.

At one extreme, the genre is used to speculate about future wars involving space travel, or the effects of such a war on humans ; at the other, it consists of the use of military fiction plots with some superficial science fiction trappings.

Blogs are often identified by a specific genre or topic, such as travel or politics.

His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to science fiction to novels about the modern metropolis ; several dramas, radio plays, and screenplays ; a true crime story ; a travel account ; two book-length philosophical treatises ; scores of essays on politics, religion, art, and society ; and numerous letters — his complete works, republished by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag and Fischer Verlag, span more than thirty volumes.

A Short History deviates from Bryson's popular travel book genre, instead describing general sciences such as chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics.

A road movie is a film genre in which the main character or characters leave home to travel from place to place.

Some planetary romances take place against the background of a future culture where travel between worlds by spaceship is commonplace ; others, particularly the earliest examples of the genre, do not, and invoke flying carpets, astral projection, or other methods of getting between planets.

The travel genre was a fairly common genre in medieval Arabic literature.

In 1589, Richard Hakluyt ( c. 1552 – 1616 ) published Voyages, a foundational text of the travel literature genre.

The genre was called ' travel record literature ' ( youji wenxue ), and was often written in narrative, prose, essay and diary style.

*: The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation ( 1589 ) a foundational text of the travel literature genre.

Her work stands out for its descriptions of her travels and pilgrimages and is unique in the literature of the period, as well as one of the first in the genre of travel writing.

It is also believed that Nadooshan ’ s travel accounts brought this genre back to life in Persian literature, namely his " Siren of Phoenix "— logs of journeys to various countries — and " Liberty of Statue "— from travels to the United States.

* Mundane science fiction is science fiction that does not make use of interstellar travel or other common tropes of the genre.