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