
Library of Chinese Classics is an ambitious cultural project to edit, translate, and publish the whole corpus of the Chinese literary classics so that the China’s greatest cultural achievements can be introduced to people all over the world.
With more than five thousand years of recorded history, the Chinese nation has a glorious culture with many wonderful works of literature. Library of Chinese Classics as a set aims to bring together all the major works of Chinese literature together in lovely hardback books published in English and Chinese. Through the Library of Chinese Classics, the aim is to broaden understanding of Chinese culture in the West and make these classics books more accessible to the modern reader.
Library of Chinese Classics as a series comprises the most influential and representative works from the vast sources of the Chinese literary classics, from the works of the Qin dynasty to works written in the 20th Century, they include philosophy, religion, politics, economics, military, history, literature, art, medicine, and technology, with the aim of fully displaying the best of Chinese culture.
Some of the Library of Chinese Classics have never before been translated into English and so it’s very exciting that finally these books can reach an even wider section of the world. All the works contain simplified Chinese and English in a bilingual hardback edition. The sets range from 1 hardback book to 6 books in sets like Dream of the Red Chamber and Journey to the West. The sets of books within Library of Chinese Classics(大中华文库) are very collectable and here we aim to explain all the books that comprise Library of Chinese Classics. This list is being added to all the time, as more books are being added to the ever-increasing collection.
Some of the books in the Library of Chinese Classics have been published in other languages such as French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Russian.
The following books are in the Chinese-English library of Chinese classics. Click here for the links to buy all the Library of Chinese Classics.
- Journey to the West
- Three Kingdoms
- A Dream of Red Mansions
- Outlaws of the Marsh
- The Spring and Autumn of Lu Buwei
- The Golden Lotus
- 300 Early Chinese Poems (206 BC – 618 AD)
- Anthology of Tales from Records of the Taiping Era
- Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry
- Gems of Classical Chinese Prose
- Guanzi
- Brush Talks From Dream Brook
- The Handan Dream
- A New Account of Tales of the World
- Stories Old and New
- Stories to Caution the World
- Ancient Chinese Fables
- Xunzi
- Records on the Warring States Period
- A Dream Under the Southern Bough
- Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals
- Selection from Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio
- Creation of the Gods
- Selections from Records of the Historian
- The Scholars
- Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine – Plain Conversation
- Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine – Spiritual Pivot
- Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind
- Flowers in the Mirror
- The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters
- Mo Zi
- Selected Chinese Stories of the Song and Ming Dynasties
- The Book of Poetry
- The Peony Pavilion
- The Travels of Lao Ts’an
- The Zhou Book of Changes
- Zhuang Zi
- Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns
- A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luo-Yang
- Admonitions for the Yan Clan
- Lao Zi
- Selected Poems of Libai
- Selected Poems of Su Shi
- The Classified Characters and Political Abilities
- Liezi
- Mencius
- Romance of The Western Bower
- Selected Tales of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties Periods
- Selected Tang Dynasty Stories
- Selections from Record of the Listener
- The Analects
- The Book of Lord Shang
- The Complete Works of Tao Yuanming
- The Palace of Eternal Youth
- The Poems of Ruan Ji
- The Six Strategies
- The Verse of Chu
- Three Strategies of Master Huangshi and Li Weigong Answering the Questions of Emperor Tang Taizong
- Treatise on Febrile Caused by Cold (Shang Han Lun)
- Wuzi and Sima’s Art of War, Wei Liao Zi
- Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons of Medicine
- Selected plays of Guan Hanqing
- Tending the Roots of Wisdom
- Sunzi: the Art of War; Sunbin: the Art of War
- TaiBai YinJing
- Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber
- Among the Flowers
- Chronicles of the Han Dynasty
- Han Feizi
- Huai Nanzi
- Jen-chien Tz’u-hua
- Selections From Classified Conversations of Zhu Xi
- The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan
- Selected Essay From the History As a Mirror
- Selection of The Tang and Song Dynasties
- Selections From the History of Later Han
- Stories To Awaken The World
- The Art of Writing & Twenty-Four Styles of Poetry
- The Classic of Mountains and Seas
- The Classic of Tea & The Sequel of The Classic of Tea
- The Complete Works of Tao Yuanming
- The Discourses of The States
- The Peach Blossom Fan (2 Vols)
- The Purple Hairpins
- The Selected Poems of Du Fu
- The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants
- The Short Essays of The Ming and Qing Dynasties
- Wu Zi & The Methods of The Sima & Wei Liao Zi
- Zhou Yi Can Tong Qi
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