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• 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 with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• 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 Open)
• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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 hawaiiopen.org)
• 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 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 hawaiiopen.org)

• 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)

• 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 with commentary at hawaiiopen.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 with commentary at Hawaii Open)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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)
• A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), trans. by Arthur Waley (page images at Google; US access only)
• 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)
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• A Feast of Lanterns (London: John Murray, 1916), ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• 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), by Arthur Waley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• 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
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text

• 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 with commentary at hawaiiopen.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 with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)

• Poetry of the Yuan Dynasty (Canberra: Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1984), by Kurt W. Radtke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic: Selections from the Third to the Tenth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1985), ed. by Xinyong Gao (HTML at Indiana)

• Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: Gutenberg text
• Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text

• Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: Gutenberg text
• Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text

• Shi Jing (multiple editions)

• The Poetry of Cao Zhi (in Chinese and English; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2021), by Cao Zhi, ed. by Paul W. Kroll, trans. by Robert Joe Cutter (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)

• Voices of the Song Lyric in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), ed. by Pauline Yu (HTML at UC Press)

• 10 Bulls: A Chinese Classic, by Kakuan and Nyogen Senzaki (illustrated HTML at uwo.ca)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 10 Bulls: A Chinese Classic, by Kakuan and Nyogen Senzaki (illustrated HTML at uwo.ca)

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