Classical Literature

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The Complete Eight Immortals 无垢道人 Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2004 The Complete Eight Immortals, originally titled The Eight Immortals Attain the Way (also known as The Tale of the Eight Immortals Attaining the Way), …
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Rating 3.6
Dark Experience Li Hongwei CITIC Press · 2018 Dark Experience is a collection of novellas by Li Hongwei, comprising three unrelated modern fables—"Dark Experience," "And the Reader Knows Not Where…
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Eighteen Journeys in Tang Poetry 蔡丹君 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Eighteen Journeys in Tang Poetry is a collection of miniature biographies of Tang poets by Cai Danjun, associate professor in the School of Literature…
The Air of the Great State: Li Shan on The Book of Songs cover
The Air of the Great State: Li Shan on The Book of Songs Li Shan Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 The Book of Songs is China's earliest collection of poetry and one of the sources for understanding Chinese ways of feeling and ethical concepts. This…
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Chinese Classics Popular Library) cover
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Chinese Classics Popular Library) Pu Songling Zhonghua Book Company · 2009 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of classical Chinese short stories by the Qing dynasty writer Pu Songling. The standard edition is…
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The Collected Works of Ye Jiaying (10-Volume Set) Chiaying Yeh Peking University Press · 2017 This set collects ten representative works by Ye Jiaying published by Peking University Press, covering four categories: lectures on the history of ci…
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The Strange Status Quo Witnessed in Twenty Years Wu Jianren People's Literature Publishing House · 2024 The Strange Status Quo Witnessed in Twenty Years is the representative work of late Qing novelist Wu Jianren. Along with The Exposure of the Official …
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Rating 3.5
The Dunhuang Chronicle Ye Zhou Yilin Press · 2018 The Dunhuang Chronicle is a long novel years in the making by the poet and novelist Ye Zhou, and the first major work of fiction to chronicle Dunhuang…
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Rating 3.1
Stories to Caution the World (Annotated Edition) Feng Menglong / Yan Dunyi People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 Stories to Caution the World is a collection of vernacular short stories compiled by the Ming-dynasty writer Feng Menglong. Together with Illustrious …
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Rating 4.2
Stories to Enlighten the World Feng Menglong People's Literature Publishing House · 2020 Many people liken Stories to Enlighten the World to a Ming-dynasty story magazine, and it is true: forty stories in plain vernacular, with characters …
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Rating 4.6
The Problem That Is No Problem Lao She Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2017 The Problem That Is No Problem is a famous novella Lao She wrote in 1943, later included in the short-story collection Anemia, and it is the title pie…
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The Life of Metaphor 张沛 Peking University Press · 2004 The Life of Metaphor is an academic monograph by Zhang Pei, a scholar at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture at Peking Uni…
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Rating 4.2
The Family Instructions of Master Yan (Complete Text, Full Annotations, Full Translation) Yan Zhitui / 檀作文 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 The Family Instructions of Master Yan is a work of family instructions written by the Northern and Southern Dynasties scholar Yan Zhitui (531–ca. 591)…
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Rating 3.5
The People Who Cannot Die Lu Min People's Literature Publishing House · 2025 The People Who Cannot Die is the latest short story collection by Lu Min, winner of the Lu Xun Literary Prize and vice chair of the Jiangsu Writers As…
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Macbeth (Bilingual Unabridged Edition · Zhu Shenghao Translation) William Shakespeare World Publishing Corporation · 2014 Macbeth is William Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and often regarded as his most brooding and shocking, ranked alongside Hamlet, Othello and King Lear…
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Rating 4.8
Dream of the Red Chamber Cao Xueqin / Bu Naifu (pen name Wu Mingshi) / Cheng Weiyuan / Gao E / Institute of Dream of the Red Chamber, Chinese National Academy of Arts People's Literature Publishing House · 2008 Dream of the Red Chamber is a novel by Cao Xueqin of the Qing dynasty and one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The book has 1…
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Newly Engraved Illustrated Edition of Jin Ping Mei with Commentary Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng Qilu Press · 1989 Xinke Xiuxiang Pingping Jinpingmei is the general designation for the Chongzhen edition of Jinpingmei (also known as the Xiuxiang edition): printed du…
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The Female Meadow Yan Geling Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2014 The Female Meadow is an early representative novel by Yan Geling, written around her thirtieth year. It is set on a desolate meadow where Sichuan, Tib…
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Rating 4.5
Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 6 Chiang Hsun Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2011 Volume 6 of Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber is the sixth volume of Jiang Xun's lecture transcripts reading Dream of the Red Chamber chapter by c…
Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber (Revised Edition) cover
Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber (Revised Edition) Chiang Hsun CITIC Press · 2017 What makes this series remarkable is that it turns a classic everyone has heard of but few have actually finished into a daily read—one chapter a day.…