Chinese literature
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Chinese literature -- 20th century
- Chinese literature -- 220-589
- Chinese literature -- History and criticism
- Chinese literature -- Indic influences
- Chinese literature -- Philosophy
- Chinese literature -- Qin and Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
- Chinese literature -- Song dynasty, 960-1279
- Chinese literature -- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Chinese literature -- To 221 B.C.
- Chinese literature -- Translations into English
- Chinese literature -- Women authors
- Chinese literature -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368
- Chinese drama
- Chinese fiction
- Chinese poetry
- Chinese prose literature
- Kings' and rulers' writings, Chinese
- Zen literature, Chinese
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China and the Chinese, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
- Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2005), by Theodore Huters (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
- Literary Authority and The Modern Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Wendy Larson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973), by Leo Ou-fan Lee (PDF at Ohio State)
- The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2004), by Jin Feng (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Marston Anderson (HTML at UC Press)
- Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2005), by Theodore Huters (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
- The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2017), by Ruan Ji and Ji Kang, ed. by Xiaofei Tian and Ding Xiang Warner, trans. by Stephen Owen and Wendy Swartz (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)
- Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2014), ed. by Jack Wei Chen and David Schaberg (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)
- A History of Chinese Literature (London: W. Heinemann, 1901), by Herbert Allen Giles (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis (originally published 1988; this edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Victor H. Mair (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #19; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1975), ed. by J. I. Crump and William P. Malm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press of Hawaii, c2010), by Zhong Xueping (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)
- The Pursuit of Justice (free online edition; original edition published 2006), by Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick (HTML and PDF with commentary at annenbergclassroom.org)
- Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2015), by Li Guo (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China (based on the 1993 revised edition; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Anne Birrell (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Authorship and Text-Making in Early China (Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), by Hanmo Zhang
- Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2021), by Li Guo (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Poetry of the Yuan Dynasty (Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1984), by Kurt W. Radtke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis (originally published 1988; this edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Victor H. Mair (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2017), by Ruan Ji and Ji Kang, ed. by Xiaofei Tian and Ding Xiang Warner, trans. by Stephen Owen and Wendy Swartz (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)
- The Works of Li Qingzhao (in Chinese and English; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2019), by Li Qingzhao, ed. by Anna Marshall Shields, trans. by Ronald Egan (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)
- The Works of Li Qingzhao (in Chinese and English; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2019), by Li Qingzhao, ed. by Anna Marshall Shields, trans. by Ronald Egan (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)
- The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2017), by Hanshan, Shide, and Fenggan, ed. by Christopher M. B. Nugent, trans. by Paul F. Rouzer (PDF with commentary at De Gruyter)
- The Poetry of Meng Haoran (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2021), by Meng Haoran, ed. by Stephen Owen, trans. by Paul W. Kroll (PDF files and Epub at degruyter.com)
- Chinese Literature: Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fa-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han (revised edition, 1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by William Jennings, James Legge, and John Francis Davis, contrib. by Confucius and Mencius (Gutenberg text)
- Chinese Literature: Comprising the Analects of Confucius; The Shi-King; The Sayings of Mencius; The Sorrows of Han; and The Travels of Fa-Hien (revised edition; London and New York: The Colonial Press, c1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by William Jennings, James Legge, and John Francis Davis, contrib. by Confucius and Mencius
- Tu Fu, Wanderer and Minstrel Under Moons of Cathay (Portland, ME: Mosher Press, 1929), by Du Fu, trans. by Edna Worthley Underwood and Chi Hwang Chu (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of Odes (Shi-King) (London: John Murray, 1908), ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Chinese Legends and Lyrics (second edition; earlier edition published as "Chinese Legends and Other Poemts"; Shanghai et al.: Kelly and Walsh, 1912), by W. A. P. Martin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Chinese Legends and Other Poems (Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1894), by W. A. P. Martin
- A Feast of Lanterns (London: John Murray, 1916), ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, c1921), by Amy Lowell, trans. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (London: Constable and Co., 1918), trans. by Arthur Waley (Gutenberg text)
- A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), trans. by Arthur Waley (page images at Google; US access only)
- A Lute of Jade: Selections from the Classical Poets of China, ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng (Gutenberg text)
- Lyrics From the Chinese (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913), by Helen Waddell (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- More Translations From the Chinese (New York: A. Knopf, c1919), trans. by Arthur Waley
- The Book of Poetry (English translations and introductions from the 1876 Trubner edition, as reprinted in Shanghai, 1931), trans. by James Legge (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The She King, or, The Book of Ancient Poetry, Translated in English Verse with Essays and Notes, trans. by James Legge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Shi King: The Old Poetry Classics of the Chinese (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1891), trans. by William Jennings (multiple formats at libertyfund.org)
- The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry (from the Sacred Books of the East collection), trans. by James Legge
- Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China (based on the 1993 revised edition; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Anne Birrell (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China (based on the 1993 revised edition; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by Anne Birrell (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)
- Poetry of the Yuan Dynasty (Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1984), by Kurt W. Radtke (page images at HathiTrust)
- Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
- Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
- Shi Jing (multiple editions)
- Imperial Chinese Art: A Catalogue of Writings and Paintings by the Chinese Emperors, Empresses and Princes Dating from the T'ang Dynasty to the End of the Ch'ing Dynasty, A. D. 618-1912 (Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1919), by Reikichi Kurosawa
- Ten Bulls, by Kuo'an, trans. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (HTML at interfaith.org)
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