小说

novel / fiction / CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]

small / tiny / few / young

to persuade

to speak / to say / to explain / to scold / to tell off / a theory (typically the last character in a compound, as in 日心說|日心说 heliocentric theory)

variant of 說|说[shuo1]

to speak; to talk; to say / to explain; to comment / to scold; to tell off / (bound form) theory; doctrine

novelist

School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

short story

novella

roman à clef

flash fiction

tales of the supernatural (genre of fiction)

murder mystery (novel) / whodunit

flash fiction

a martial arts (wuxia) novel

supernatural novel / novel of ghosts and goblins

science fiction novel

techno-thriller novel / science fiction thriller

novel in chapters, main format for long novels from the Ming onwards, with each chapter headed by a summary couplet

pornographic novel / dirty book

techno-thriller novel

Concise History of the Chinese Novel by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[Lu3 Xun4]

Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Feng2 Meng4 long2], collection of late Ming baihua 白話|白话[bai2 hua4] tales published in 1620

historical novel

flash fiction