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The Complete Story of Yue Fei
The full title of this book is The Newly Expanded Romance of the Loyal and Brave King Yue, in twenty volumes and eighty chapters, compiled by Qian Cai…
Journey to the West
Journey to the West is based on the historical pilgrimage of the Tang-dynasty monk Xuanzang to India in search of Buddhist scriptures. It tells how Su…
Coiled Serpents
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014
Zeng Benzhi, a leading authority in bronze studies, receives after his seventieth birthday a letter written in oracle-bone script, signed by his colle…
Jing Hua Yuan (Flowers in the Mirror)
The Hundred Flowers Fairy, having refused at the Jasper Pool birthday feast to defy the seasons and make all flowers bloom at once, earns the enmity o…
Aurora Borealis
Zhang Kangkang's novella captures, through delicate interior monologue, the wavering of early-1980s youth between marriage and ideals; its imagery is …
A Gallery of Love
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022
While sketching in Suzhou, young painter Zhou You encounters Qin Shuihong, a married university teacher, and the two fall into a forbidden love that s…
Romance of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms
The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms is a full-length historical romance in one hundred and eight chapters, adapted by Feng Menglong of the Min…
When the Dust Settles
People's Literature Publishing House · 1998
Alai uses the lively perspective of the "idiot" young master to portray the rise and fall of the chieftain system and Tibetan customs. The language is…
Selected Works of Liu Xinglong
TIANDI PRESS · 2017
This volume selects representative works from more than thirty years of Liu Xinglong's writing, divided into six parts: novels, novellas, prose, essay…
Library of China's Ten Great Banned and Destroyed Novels
Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2011
This collection brings together ten Ming and Qing dynasty chapter novels: The Strange Tale of the Twin Phoenixes, The Heavenly Leopard, The Romance of…
Quelling the Bandits
The Extended History of the Water Margin picks up from the seventy-chapter edition of the Water Margin annotated by Jin Shengtan. It begins with Lu Ju…
A New Translation of The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons
Zongheng Chinese Network
This book is the author Kexie's new modern vernacular translation of Liu Xie's The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons from the Southern and Nort…
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of classical Chinese short stories by Pu Songling of the Qing dynasty. Begun in the early Kangxi e…
Poetry and Faraway Places, Here in This World
The book consists of short line-broken texts. It opens with "A Walk in the Rain," in which the protagonist likens herself to a gust of wind that keeps…
The Complete Works of Ding Ling (Volume 3)
Hebei People's Publishing House · 2001
This is the third volume of The Complete Works of Ding Ling, collecting her short stories. It opens with Meng Ke, which follows the daughter of a reti…
The Three Heroes and Five Gallants
The Three Heroes and Five Gallants is a lengthy chapter novel compiled by literati from the songbook of the Qing dynasty storyteller Shi Yukun, origin…
The Moon Opera
The novel centers on Xiao Yanqiu, a female performer of the qingyi role in Peking opera. She rose to fame playing Chang'e in The Moon Opera, but in he…
Heart Commentary on the Three Character Classic
Taking the original text of the Three Character Classic as its framework, this book annotates it line by line and unfolds a "heart commentary." It ope…
Investiture of the Gods
King Zhou of Shang, while offering incense at the Temple of Nuwa, writes a poem that defiles the goddess's statue. Nuwa summons three demons from the …
Dream of the Red Chamber
The pinnacle of the Chinese classical novel, with exquisitely delicate characterization and social observation, and poetry and song woven seamlessly i…