The earliest Chinese literature that we know of probably comes from the later part of the Western Zhou Dynasty about 800 BCE (the same time as Homer in Greece) and was written on silk. This is the I Ching, a fortune-telling book, like the earlier oracle bones. Sometime around 300 BC, in the Warring States period, a general called Sun Tzu wrote a very important book called the Art of War, about the best ways to organize armies and battles. He offered the war strategy how to win a war without a battle. Around 100 BCE, Ts’ai Lun invented paper to write on. Paper was cheaper to write on than silk, so more people wrote and copied books during the Han Dynasty. The first woman writer of China, Ban Zhao, lived later in the Han Dynasty, in the first century CE. She wrote many books, including poetry and a history of the Western Han. Ban Zhao also wrote astronomy and mathematical books, and she wrote “Lessons for Women,” which advised women to submit to the men around them. This last book became very famous. During the Tang Dynasty, about 700 CE, people in China invented wood-block printing, which was easier than copying out books by hand and made books much cheaper than they had been before. Many more people learned to read, and many more people wrote books. The poet Bai Juyi wrote a famous poem, the Song of Everlasting Sorrow. Soon afterward, during the Song Dynasty, about 1000 CE, people invented movable clay type, and this made books even cheaper and more popular than before. In 1103 AD, Lie Jie published a book setting architectural standards for all of China. One of the most famous novels of ancient China is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was written about 1330 AD, during the Yuan Dynasty, by a man named Luo Guanzhong (Carr, 2017).