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The Chinese has a long written history, which meant a lot of writers.

To list a few:

Historians:

Zhuo Chu Ming (502 BC - 422 BC) : Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan

Ban Biao, Ban Gu, and Ban Zhao (Father, Son, Daughter team) : History of the Former Han Dynasty finished in 111 AD

Sima Qian (09 BC-91 BC): Shiji

Military Writing

Sun Wu (515 BC-512 BC) : Art of War

Wu Qi (475 BC - 221 BC) : Wu Zi

Legalism

Shen Dao (475 BC - 221 BC): Shenzi

The one's listed above are merely a small selection of influential non-fiction works that have been studied by Chinese Scholars over the years, considered Classics even during ancient times.

Then there are the essayist, philosophers:

Wang Yangming (1472-1529): Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general

Zhū​ Xī​ (October 18, 1130, - April 23, 1200): Neo-Confucian philosopher

Wei zheng(580-643) : official/politician

Tao yuan ming (365-427) : Poet/Writer

Zu Ge Liang (181-234) : military strategist

Sema Xiangru (179 BC : 127 BC) : Han dynasty poet/essayist

... and many many more

Also there are the fiction writers:

Luo Guanzhong (1330?-1400):

Chinese writer attributed with compiling/writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三国演义), and editing Water Margin(水浒传), two of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Shi Naian (1296-1372)

He was attributed as the first compiler of the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Cao Xueqin (1800s)

writer of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Generally considered as the pinnacle of classical Chinese novels.

Wu Cheng'en

Journey to the West (1590s), one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

and then we have the travel writers....

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