Classical Literature

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Dream of the Red Chamber cover
Rating 4.9
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 · 2019 Dream of the Red Chamber is the pinnacle of the Chinese classical novel. It is generally held that the complete work runs to 120 chapters, with the fi…
Birds of Prey Vol. 1 #56 cover
Birds of Prey Vol. 1 #56 Gail Simone / Ed Benes / Alex Ray DC Comics · 2003 Birds of Prey Vol. 1 #56 is a single regular issue published in August 2003 and the first issue of Gail Simone's run on the series, titled "Of Like Mi…
Collectors' Series of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Martial Arts Fiction: Series One (7-Volume Set) cover
Collectors' Series of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Martial Arts Fiction: Series One (7-Volume Set) Sun Yusheng / Zhu Zhenmu / Huanzhulouzhu (Li Shoumin) Henan People's Publishing House · 2015 The Collectors' Series of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Martial Arts Fiction, planned and edited by Chen Zhiming and published by Henan People's Pub…
A Dictionary of Appreciation of Poetry from the Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, and Northern and Southern Dynasties cover
Rating 4.1
A Dictionary of Appreciation of Poetry from the Pre-Qin, Han, Wei, and Northern and Southern Dynasties 魏耕原 / Zhang Xinke / Zhao Wangqin The Commercial Press International Co., Ltd. · 2012 This book is one volume in the "Chinese Classical Poetry, Song, and Fu Appreciation Series" of reference works, edited by Wei Gengyuan, Zhang Xinke, a…
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The Complete Story of Yue Fei Qian Cai / 金丰 Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 The Complete Story of Yue Fei, whose full title is The Popular Romance of the Loyal and Righteous Lord Yue, was completed during the Qianlong reign of…
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Rating 4.7
The Annotated Dream of the Red Chamber by Zhiyanzhai Cao Xueqin / 脂砚斋 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2011 This edition presents the text of the Zhiyanzhai recension as its main body, reproducing alongside the novel the vermilion-ink comments that Zhiyanzha…
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Rating 3.9
Fifteen Lectures on Tang Poetry and Song Lyrics Ge Xiaoyin Peking University Press · 2013 This book is a collection of lectures on Tang poetry and Song lyrics written by Professor Ge Xiaoyin of the Department of Chinese Language and Literat…
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A New Account of Tales of the World Liu Yiqing / 刘孝标 Zhonghua Book Company · 2011 One book captures the elegance of an entire age. The figures of Wei and Jin prized "transcending the ethics of fame and following nature"; they engage…
Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 8 cover
Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 8 Chiang Hsun Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2012 Jiang Xun on Dream of the Red Chamber is a set of reading notes in which Jiang Xun, after decades of rereading Dream of the Red Chamber, discusses the…
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Rating 4.3
Beiliu 林白 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Beiliu is a novel that the writer Lin Bai completed after years of quiet work, running between 550,000 and 600,000 Chinese characters; the title comes…
Erke Pai'an Jingqi (Slapping the Table in Amazement, Second Collection) cover
Erke Pai'an Jingqi (Slapping the Table in Amazement, Second Collection) Ling Mengchu / Chen Erdong / Guo Junjie People's Literature Publishing House · 2024 Erke Pai'an Jingqi (Slapping the Table in Amazement, Second Collection) is a collection of simulated huaben stories compiled by the Ming dynasty novel…
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Old Fiction: Classical and Modern Gems (Tang Dynasty Volume), Part One Ji Yun Qingpingguo Data Center · 2014 Old Fiction: Classical and Modern Gems (Tang Dynasty Volume), Part One is one of the e-books in the "Old Fiction" series produced and distributed by Q…
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Rating 4.5
Nineteen Old Poems Zhu Ziqing / 李善 CITIC Press The Nineteen Old Poems first appear in the Wen Xuan, the anthology compiled by Xiao Tong, Crown Prince Zhaoming of the Liang dynasty in the Southern D…
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Watanabe Junichi Classic Collection Junichi Watanabe Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.; Jiuzhou Press; Culture and Art Publishing House, et al. · 2014 This collection brings together six works by Watanabe Junichi (1933–2014) that Chinese readers have most often read—both full-length novels and essays…
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Rating 4.0
Fact and Fiction Wang Anyi People's Literature Publishing House · 2013 Fact and Fiction is a novel Wang Anyi wrote in 1992, first published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1993, and one of her most experimental…
Dou E Yuan (Picture Book) cover
Dou E Yuan (Picture Book) Guan Hanqing / 孟庆江 / Wang Weicheng Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Dou E Yuan is the representative work of Guan Hanqing, the Yuan dynasty zaju playwright, and one of the most celebrated tragedies in classical Chinese…
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Rating 4.6
Chu Ci: A Modern Translation of Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries Zhu Xi Knowledge Publishing House · 2015 This book is a modern translation and annotated reader of Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries on the Chu Ci from the Southern Song dynasty. Published in t…
Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection (Annotated Edition) cover
Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection (Annotated Edition) Ling Mengchu Zhonghua Book Company · 2009 The first collection of simulated huaben stories, Compiled by the Ming dynasty writer Ling Mengchu, it consists of forty juan in forty chapters. Toget…
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Red Shoes Yi Shu Cosmos Books Ltd. · 1986 Red Shoes is a short story collection by Hong Kong writer Yi Shu, the sixty-ninth title in the "Tian Di Yi Shu Series," published in 1986 by Tian Di P…
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Ten Lectures on Ci Studies Long Yusheng Zhonghua Book Company · 2017 Ten Lectures on Ci Studies is a textbook on ci poetics written by the ci scholar Long Yusheng for his lectures at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, re-edi…