The Library of Chinese Classics

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.

  1. Journey to the West
  2. Three Kingdoms
  3. A Dream of Red Mansions
  4. Outlaws of the Marsh
  5. The Spring and Autumn of Lu Buwei
  6. The Golden Lotus
  7. 300 Early Chinese Poems (206 BC – 618 AD)
  8. Anthology of Tales from Records of the Taiping Era
  9. Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry
  10. Gems of Classical Chinese Prose
  11. Guanzi
  12. Brush Talks From Dream Brook
  13. The Handan Dream
  14. A New Account of Tales of the World
  15. Stories Old and New
  16. Stories to Caution the World
  17. Ancient Chinese Fables
  18. Xunzi
  19. Records on the Warring States Period
  20. A Dream Under the Southern Bough
  21. Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals
  22. Selection from Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio
  23. Creation of the Gods
  24. Selections from Records of the Historian
  25. The Scholars
  26. Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine – Plain Conversation
  27. Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine – Spiritual Pivot
  28. Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind
  29. Flowers in the Mirror
  30. The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters
  31. Mo Zi
  32. Selected Chinese Stories of the Song and Ming Dynasties
  33. The Book of Poetry
  34. The Peony Pavilion
  35. The Travels of Lao Ts’an
  36. The Zhou Book of Changes
  37. Zhuang Zi
  38. Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns
  39. A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luo-Yang
  40. Admonitions for the Yan Clan
  41. Lao Zi
  42. Selected Poems of Libai
  43. Selected Poems of Su Shi
  44. The Classified Characters and Political Abilities
  45. Liezi
  46. Mencius
  47. Romance of The Western Bower
  48. Selected Tales of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties Periods
  49. Selected Tang Dynasty Stories
  50. Selections from Record of the Listener
  51. The Analects
  52. The Book of Lord Shang
  53. The Complete Works of Tao Yuanming
  54. The Palace of Eternal Youth
  55. The Poems of Ruan Ji
  56. The Six Strategies
  57. The Verse of Chu
  58. Three Strategies of Master Huangshi and Li Weigong Answering the Questions of Emperor Tang Taizong
  59. Treatise on Febrile Caused by Cold (Shang Han Lun)
  60. Wuzi and Sima’s Art of War, Wei Liao Zi
  61. Yellow Emperor’s Four Canons of Medicine
  62. Selected plays of Guan Hanqing
  63. Tending the Roots of Wisdom
  64. Sunzi: the Art of War; Sunbin: the Art of War
  65. TaiBai YinJing
  66. Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber
  67. Among the Flowers
  68. Chronicles of the Han Dynasty
  69. Han Feizi
  70. Huai Nanzi
  71. Jen-chien Tz’u-hua
  72. Selections From Classified Conversations of Zhu Xi
  73. The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan
  74. Selected Essay From the History As a Mirror
  75. Selection of The Tang and Song Dynasties
  76. Selections From the History of Later Han
  77. Stories To Awaken The World
  78. The Art of Writing & Twenty-Four Styles of Poetry
  79. The Classic of Mountains and Seas
  80. The Classic of Tea & The Sequel of The Classic of Tea
  81. The Complete Works of Tao Yuanming
  82. The Discourses of The States
  83. The Peach Blossom Fan (2 Vols)
  84. The Purple Hairpins
  85. The Selected Poems of Du Fu
  86. The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants
  87. The Short Essays of The Ming and Qing Dynasties
  88. Wu Zi & The Methods of The Sima & Wei Liao Zi
  89. Zhou Yi Can Tong Qi

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