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Dongpo's Forest of Notes Su Shi Zhonghua Book Company · 2025 Dongpo's Forest of Notes is a collection of occasional sketches and vignettes by the Northern Song literary figure Su Shi. In five juan it gathers ove…
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Rating 4.7
The Zuo Commentary Zuo Qiuming / 郭丹 / 程小青 / 李彬源 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 The Zuo Commentary, whose full title is The Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, is the most influential of the "three commentaries" on the…
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Beishan Jiujing (With Two Other Works) 朱肱 / Li Shizhen / 袁宏道 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Beishan Jiujing (The North Mountain Wine Classic) was written by Zhu Gong of the Northern Song dynasty and is one of the earliest extant Chinese works…
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Huangdi Neijing Anonymous / 姚春鹏 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 Huangdi Neijing, or the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor, is the earliest extant medical classic in China, revered as the ancestor of medical classic…
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Rating 4.5
Six Secret Teachings (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Full Translation of Chinese Classics Series) Chen Xi Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 The Six Secret Teachings is an important text of pre-Qin military thought, traditionally attributed to Jiang Taigong (Lü Wang) but generally believed …
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Rating 4.1
Caigentan (Vegetable Roots Discourse) Hong Yingming / Sun Lin Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 Caigentan is a collection of aphoristic "clear-talk" vignettes written by the Ming-dynasty literatus Hong Yingming, probably completed during the Wanl…
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Rating 4.3
The Rites of Zhou (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) 周公旦 / 徐正英 / 常佩雨 Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 The Rites of Zhou, originally titled The Offices of Zhou, The Classic of Zhou Offices, or The Rites of Zhou Offices, is a monograph among the Confucia…
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Rating 4.2
In Search of the Supernatural Gan Bao / 马银琴 Zhonghua Book Company · 2012 In Search of the Supernatural (Soushen Ji) is a collection of supernatural tales compiled by Gan Bao, a historian of the early Eastern Jin dynasty. Ga…
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Selections of Refined Literature (Six Volumes) Xiao Tong / 张启成 / 徐达 Zhonghua Book Company · 2019 Also known as the Zhaoming Selections of Refined Literature, this is the earliest extant and most influential anthology of poetry and prose in China, …
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Rating 4.5
Exhortation to Learning (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) 张之洞 / Feng Tianyu / Jiang Hailong Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 Exhortation to Learning is a treatise written in 1898 by Zhang Zhidong (1837–1909), a high-ranking late Qing official, and presented to the Guangxu Em…
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The Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 公羊高 / 黄铭 / 曾亦 Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 The Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals is one of the Thirteen Confucian Classics and, together with the Zuo Commentary and the Gulian…
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Rating 4.5
Six Records of a Floating Life Shen Fu Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 Six Records of a Floating Life is an autobiographical collection of essays by Shen Fu, a native of Changzhou (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu) in the Qing…
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The I Ching (Zhouyi) 杨天才 / Zhang Shanwen Zhonghua Book Company · 2011 The I Ching (Zhouyi), known as the foremost of the classics, consists of two parts: the Classic and the Commentaries. The Classic, or Yijing, contains…
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The Travels of Xu Xiake (Complete Edition with Full Annotations and Translation) Xu Xiake / 朱惠荣整理 / Li Xinghe Zhonghua Book Company · 2015 The Travels of Xu Xiake is a celebrated Chinese geographical work written in diary form by Xu Xiake (1586–1641), a Ming-dynasty traveler, geographer, …
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Rating 4.6
Records of Instruction and Practice Wang Yangming Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Records of Instruction and Practice (Chuanxilu) is a collection of discussions on learning and letters by the Ming dynasty thinker Wang Yangming (pers…
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Rating 4.5
Huangdi Neijing (Two Volumes) 姚春鹏 Zhonghua Book Company · 2022 The Huangdi Neijing, or Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor, abbreviated as Neijing, is the earliest extant medical classic in China, honored as the "an…
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Rating 4.6
The Book of Songs Wang Xiumei Zhonghua Book Company · 2015 The Book of Songs is the earliest surviving anthology of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 pieces (plus six titles with no extant text) composed over rou…
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Rating 4.6
Instructions for Practical Living Wang Yangming / 陆永胜 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Instructions for Practical Living (Chuanxilu) is a record of sayings that documents the scholarly thought of the Ming dynasty thinker Wang Yangming (g…
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Rating 4.2
A Book to Burn (Complete Text, Full Annotation, and Modern Translation · Two Volumes) Li Zhi / 张建业 Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 A Book to Burn, also known as Li's Book to Burn, runs to six volumes and is a collection compiled by the Ming dynasty thinker Li Zhi in 1590, at the a…
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Groans of Pain (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation) Lü Kun / Wang Guoxuan / Wang Xiumei Zhonghua Book Company · 2018 Groans of Pain is one of the representative works of Lü Kun, a Ming dynasty thinker and statesman. Completed in 1593, the twenty-first year of the Wan…