Chinese Classics

18 books

A Heart Concerned for the World: The Sense of Crisis in Traditional Chinese Culture cover
Rating 3.0
A Heart Concerned for the World: The Sense of Crisis in Traditional Chinese Culture 李本军 Xinhua Publishing House · 2026 This book explores the theme of concern for the nation and its people in traditional Chinese culture, focusing on expressions and interpretations of "…
Drops of Heavenly Marrow cover
Rating 4.2
Drops of Heavenly Marrow 刘伯温 / 任铁樵 / 卓飞宏 Tibet People's Publishing House · 2024 Ditian Sui (Cleaving to the Heaven's Marrow) is the most important classic in traditional Chinese fate calculation. Its original text is said to have …
The Book of Songs and Pre-Qin Philosophy (Love of Wisdom Series) cover
Rating 3.9
The Book of Songs and Pre-Qin Philosophy (Love of Wisdom Series) 张丰乾 Peking University Press · 2025 Centered on the relationship between the Classic of Poetry (Shijing), one of the canonical resources of the age of the philosophers, and pre-Qin philo…
Takashima's I Ching Divination (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 3.8
Takashima's I Ching Divination (2 Volumes) 高岛吞象 / 黄敦兵 Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2026 A plain-language translation of the ancient Yijing method of divination in action! The life's work of Japan's "sage of the Yijing," Takashima Tōzō, re…
Guidance from the Wise: Learning How to Establish Yourself from Heroes of Troubled Times cover
Rating 2.2
Guidance from the Wise: Learning How to Establish Yourself from Heroes of Troubled Times 杨去己 China Translation & Publishing House · 2026 High Minds Point the Way draws from seven classic works, including the Dao De Jing, Zhuangzi, and The Book of Lord Shang, to distill a way of securing…
The Book of Simplicity cover
Rating 3.8
The Book of Simplicity Huang Shigong / 王志军 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2026 The Su Shu runs to only six chapters, yet every word is a gem, holding the ultimate wisdom of cultivating the self, ordering the family, governing the…
A Plain Exposition of Sun Tzu's Art of War cover
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A Plain Exposition of Sun Tzu's Art of War 孔海钦 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2026 With extraordinary thinking, lock in the optimal solution amid uncertainty. The Art of War is far more than a military treatise; its core ideas of "ca…
Miscellaneous Selections from Classics, History, and the Hundred Schools cover
Rating 4.4
Miscellaneous Selections from Classics, History, and the Hundred Schools Zeng Guofan · 2024 Zeng Guofan was not only the foremost statesman of the late Qing dynasty but also a great Confucian scholar of his time, well versed in literature, hi…
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Rating 4.6
Common Talks on the Classics Zhu Ziqing The Commercial Press · 2024 Jingdian Changtan (Common Talks on the Classics) is a representative work by Zhu Ziqing and a model of popularizing traditional Chinese culture. The b…
Zhang Juzheng's Commentary on the Book of Documents cover
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Zhang Juzheng's Commentary on the Book of Documents 陈生玺 Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House · 2023 "Zhang Juzheng understood the changing times and had the courage to take responsibility. In the early reign of Emperor Shenzong, he revived what had d…
Common Talks on the Classics cover
Rating 4.6
Common Talks on the Classics Zhu Ziqing People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2026 Mr. Zhu Ziqing, in plain and practical language, introduces the classic works of China's cultural heritage concisely and to the point in thirteen essa…
How Can Life Be Idle? cover
Rating 3.1
How Can Life Be Idle? 白落梅 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 People walk through the world neither to admire themselves in isolation nor to compromise their integrity. Mountains and rivers are priceless, yet no …
The Book of Songs: Translated and Annotated cover
Rating 4.5
The Book of Songs: Translated and Annotated 程俊英 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Translated and annotated by the distinguished scholar Professor Cheng Junying, this volume presents all 305 poems of the Classic of Poetry in their en…
Penglai Pavilion · Literary Classics Collection cover
Rating 4.2
Penglai Pavilion · Literary Classics Collection Wen Yiduo / Lu Xun / Wang Guowei / Hu Shi Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 This series brings together nine classic works: Tang Poetry: A Miscellany, A Brief History of Chinese Fiction, Poetic Remarks in the Human World, Lect…
Penglai Pavilion · Chinese Classics Collection cover
Rating 3.9
Penglai Pavilion · Chinese Classics Collection Zhang Binglin (Zhang Taiyan) / Liu Shipei / Zhu Ziqing / Liang Qichao / 范希曾 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Under the call to "sort out the national heritage," the late Qing and early Republican period saw the emergence of a large number of outstanding works…
Essence of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries cover
Rating 4.0
Essence of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries Ji Yun China Overseas Publishing House · 2024 The Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (Siku Quanshu) is a series compiled under the chief editorship of Ji Xiaolan and other officials and schol…
Reading Notes from the Waiting-for-the-Hare Studio: Which Branch Can I Rely On? cover
Rating 4.2
Reading Notes from the Waiting-for-the-Hare Studio: Which Branch Can I Rely On? Li Ling SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Han Feizi told a story: waiting by a tree stump for a hare. In the state of Song there was a farmer, a fool if ever there was one. A tree on his land …
The Book of Rites; The Classic of Filial Piety cover
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The Book of Rites; The Classic of Filial Piety 胡平生 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 The Book of Rites (Liji) is a collection of ritual texts compiled by Dai Sheng of the Western Han dynasty from earlier Chinese works on ceremony datin…