Chinese Literature

Works

The Four Great Classical Novels (Si Da Ming Zhu 四大名著):

• Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢,红楼梦 A Dream of Red Mansions, The Story of the Stone and The Chronicles of the Stone, 石頭記, 石头记 Shítóu Jì), by Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹)
• The Dream of the Red Chamber / Cao Xueqin; translated by H. Bencraft Joly.
• Water Margin (水滸傳, 水浒传 All Men Are Brothers and Outlaws of the Marsh), by Shi Naian (施耐庵)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義，三国演义), by Luo Guanzhong (羅貫中，罗贯中)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms / Luo Guanzhong; translated by C.H. Brewitt-Taylor
• Journey to the West (西遊記，西游记, and Monkey), by Wu Cheng'en (吳承恩，吴承恩)

Other classic fiction:

• Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (聊齋誌異，聊斋志异), by Pu Songling (蒲松齡，蒲松龄)
• Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures / Pu Songling ; translated by G. Soulié de Morant [1740]
• Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅, 蘭陵笑笑生，兰陵笑笑生 or The Plum in the Golden Vase), by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (兰陵笑笑生)
• 鏡花緣 Flowers in the Mirror (镜花缘 Jing huayuan) / Li Ruzhen, ca. 1763-ca. 1830
• Fengshen Bang (封神榜, The Investiture of the Gods)
• Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (醒世姻緣傳，醒世姻缘传 or The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World)
• The Scholars (儒林外史 Ru Lin Wai Shi), by Wu Jingzi (吳敬梓)
• Dijing Jingwulue (帝京景物略 or Survey of Scenery and Monuments in the Imperial Capital), by Liu Tong
• The Romance of the Eastern Zhou (東周列國志, 东周列国志 dōngzhōu lièguō zhì), by Feng Menglong(冯梦龙), edited by Cai Yuanfang （蔡元放）
• The Carnal Prayer Mat (Chinese: 肉蒲團; pinyin: ròupútuán an erotic novel by Li Yu (李渔) 1657.

Drama:

• The Story of the Western Wing (西廂記，西厢记 Xīxiāngjì), by Wang Shifu (王实甫)
• The Injustice to Dou E (竇娥冤，窦娥冤 Dou E Yuan), by Guan Hanqing (關漢卿，关汉卿)
• The Jade Hairpin (Yuzanji 玉簪記，玉簪记), by Gao Lian (高濂)
• Hui Lan Ji (灰闌記，灰兰记), by Li Xingdao (李行道) became the basis for The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• The Peony Pavilion (Mudan Ting 牡丹亭), by Tang Xianzu (湯顯祖，汤显祖)
• The Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua Shan 桃花扇) by Kong Shangren (孔尚任)
• The Palace of Eternal Life (長生殿, 长生殿), by Hong Sheng (洪昇)
• The Orphan of Zhao (趙氏孤兒), a 13th century play by Ji Junxiang (紀君祥), was the first Chinese play to have been translated into a European language.

• 說唐 / Luo Guanzhong
• 三國志演義 / Luo Guanzhong
• 平妖傳 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓全傳 / Luo Guanzhong
• 殘唐五代史演義傳 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓1-10回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓11-20回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓21-30回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓31-40回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓41-50回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓51-60回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓61-70回 / Luo Guanzhong
• 粉妝樓71-80回 / Luo Guanzhong

• 金石緣
• 御製廣寒殿記 / ; edited by Emperor of China Ming Xuanzong; edited by Jiao Wei
• 玉台新詠 / ; edited by Ling Xu
• 豆棚閒話 / Ainajushi
• 比目魚 / Aiyuezhuren
• 淮南子 / An Liu
• 三字經 / Anonymous
• 詩經 / Anonymous
• 百家姓 / Anonymous
• 山海經 / Anonymous
• 施公案 / Anonymous
• 易經 / Anonymous
• 李太白集 / Bai Li; edited by Ren Tu Xu
• 海上花列傳 / Bangqing Han
• 蕉葉帕 / Ben Shan
• 俗話傾談 / Binru Shao
• 文明小史 / Boyuan Li
• 孫子算經 / ca. 5th cent. Sunzi; translated by Chunfeng Li
• 西遊記 / Cheng'en Wu
• 古文觀止 / Chengquan, fl. 1695-1711 Wu and Dazhi, fl. 1678-1695 Wu
• 論衡 / Chong Wang
• 花間集 / Chongzuo, fl. 934-965 Zhao
• 論語 / Confucius
• 陶庵夢憶 / Dai Zhang
• 慎子 / Dao, ca. 350 B.C.-ca. 275 B.C. Shen
• 墨子 / Di Mo
• 夜雨秋燈錄 / Ding Xuan
• 醉醒石 / Donglukuangsheng
• 老殘遊記 / E Liu
• 老殘遊記 / E Liu
• 韩非子 / Fei Han
• 滿江紅 / Fei Yue; edited by Taofang Xie
• 海遊記 / fl. 1573 Wugenzi
• 兒女英雄傳 / fl. 1842-1851 Wenkang
• 小爾雅 / Fu, ca. 264-208 B.C. Kong
• 孔叢子 / Fu, ca. 264-208 B.C. Kong
• 浮生六記 / Fu Shen
• 脾胃論 / Gao Li
• 虬髯客傳 / Guangting Du
• 明月台 / Gui Weng
• 鬼谷子 / Guiguzi
• 鬼谷子 / Guiguzi
• 人間詞話 / Guowei Wang
• 轟天雷 / Guxiang Tenggu
• 竇娥寃 / Hanqing Guan
• 風月夢 / Hanshangmengren
• 李賀詩選 / He Li
• 幽閨記 / Hui Shi
• 海國春秋 / Ji Wang
• 九命奇冤 / Jianren Wu
• 瞎騙奇聞 / Jianren Wu
• 中國十大禁書之國色天香 / Jingsuo Wu
• 儒林外史 / Wu Jingzi
• 快士傳 / ju ren 1738 Wuseshizhuren
• 五色石 / ju ren 1738 Wuseshizhuren
• 耳食錄 / Jun Yue
• 冷眼观 / Junqing Wang
• 長恨歌 / Juyi Bai
• 雪月梅傳 / Lang Chen
• 道德經 / Laozi
• 老子 / Laozi
• 龍川詞 / Liang Chen
• 列子 / Liezi
• 公孫龍子 / Long Gongsun
• 子不語 / Mei Yuan
• 續子不語 / Mei Yuan
• 孟子 / Mencius
• 二刻拍案惊奇 / Mengchu Ling
• 二刻拍案驚奇 / Mengchu Ling
• 警世通言 / Feng Menglong
• 醒世恆言 / Feng Menglong
• 喻世明言 / Feng Menglong
• 高士傳 / Mi Huangfu
• 竹齋集 / Mian Wang
• 琵琶記 / Ming, fl. 1345 Gao
• 穆天子传 / Pu Guo
• 搜神後記 / Qian Tao
• 諧鐸 / Qifeng Shen
• 辛棄疾詞選 / Qiji Xin
• 漱玉詞 / Qingzhao Li
• 負曝閒談 / Quyuan
• 詩品 / Rong, fl. 502-519 Zhong
• 詩品 / Rong, fl. 502-519 Zhong
• 鏡花緣 / Li Ruzhen, ca. 1763-ca. 1830
• 桃花扇 / Shangren Kong
• 李義山詩集 / Shangyin Li
• 東坡樂府 / Shi Su
• 水調歌頭 / Shi Su
• 西廂記 / Shifu fl. 1295-1307 Wang
• 公墓 / Shiying Mu
• 豔異編 / Shizhen Wang
• 醒世姻緣 / Pu Songling
• 錦香亭 / Su'anzhuren
• 歸蓮夢 / Su'anzhuren
• 彭公案 / Tanmengdaoren
• 定情人 / Tianhuazangzhuren
• 石點頭 / Tianranchisou
• 商界現形記 / Tianzhuisheng
• 文中子中說 / Tong Wang; edited by Yun Wu Wang
• 周髀算經 / Unknown
• 春秋配 / Unknown
• 管子 — Volume 01 : Chapters 1-5 / Zhong Guan
• 管子 — Volume 02 : Chapters 6-10 / Zhong Guan
• 顔氏家訓 — Volume 01 and 02 / Zhitui Yan
• 顔氏家訓 — Volume 03 and 04 / Zhitui Yan
• 顔氏家訓 — Volume 05 and 06 / Zhitui Yan
• 顔氏家訓 — Volume 07 / Zhitui Yan
• 尹文子 / Wen Yin
• 唐才子傳 / Wenfang Xin
• 鄧析子 / Xi Deng
• 關尹子 / Xi Yin
• 近思錄 / Xi Zhu
• 文心雕龍 / Xie Liu; edited by Li-chian Luo; edited by Jen-shing Li
• 歡喜冤家 / Xihuyuyinzhuren
• 李娃傳 / Xingjian Bai
• 千字文 / Xingsi Zhou
• 千字文 / Xingsi Zhou
• 千字文 / Xingsi Zhou
• 方言 / Xiong Yang
• 六一詞 / Xiu Ouyang
• 夢中緣 / Xiuxing, jin shi 1715 Li
• 封神演義 / Xixing Lu
• 徬徨 / Xun Lu
• 狂人日記 / Xun Lu
• 阿Ｑ正傳 / Xun Lu
• 狂人日記 / Xun Lu
• 中國小說史略 / Xun Lu
• 吶喊 / Xun Lu
• 王陽明全集 / Yangming Wang
• 傳習錄 / Yangming Wang
• 巧聯珠 / Yanxiayishi
• 賈誼新書 / Yi Jia
• 甌北詩話 / Yi Zhao
• 三字經 / Yinglin Wang
• 風月鑒 / Yitang Wu
• 樂章集 / Yong, jin shi 1034 Liu; edited by Zumou Zhu
• 圍爐夜話 / Yongbin Wang
• 無聲戲 / Yu Li
• 滄浪詩話 / Yu Yan
• 珍珠舶 / Yuanhuyanshuisanren
• 合浦珠 / Yuanhuyanshuisanren
• 申鑒 / Yue Xun
• 蜃樓志 / Yulinglaoren
• 閱微草堂筆記 / Yun Ji
• 五鳳吟 / Yunyangchichidaoren
• 玉梨魂 / Zhenya Xu
• 洛神賦 / Zhi Cao
• 顔氏家訓 / Zhitui Yan
• 管子 / Zhong Guan
• 傷寒論 / Zhongjing, fl. 168-196 Zhang
• 遊仙窟 / Zhuo, ca. 660-ca. 740 Zhang
• 遊仙窟 / Zhuo, ca. 660-ca. 740 Zhang
• 豐收 / Zi Ye
• 花月痕 / Zi'an Wei
• 花月痕 / Zi'an Wei
• 飛跎全傳 / Zou Bixian
• 近思錄 / Zuqian Lü and Xi Zhu
• 搜神後記. Selections. 1985 / Qian Tao

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Works in English translation

• The Analects of Confucius / translated by James Legge
• The Doctrine of the Mean / Confucius ; translated by James Legge
• The Great Learning / Confucius ; translated by James Legge
• The Art of War / Sun Tzu
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms : Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline / Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge.
• The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) / Confucius; translated by James Legge
• Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado / Alexander McAllan
• A Bit of Old China / Charles Warren Stoddard
• The Blue Moon / Laurence Housman
• Cathay / Ezra Pound and Bai Li
• China and the Chinese / Herbert Allen Giles
• The Chinese Classics — Prolegomena / ; translated by James Legge
• The Chinese Classics — Volume 1 : Confucian Analects / James Legge
• The Chinese Classics : with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes : (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 / James Legge
• The Chinese Fairy Book / ; edited by Richard Wilhelm
• Chinese Folk-Lore Tales / J. Macgowan
• Chinese Literature : Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han / Mencius, Confucius and ca. 337-422 Faxian; translated by James Legge; translated by John Francis, Davis; translated by William Jennings; edited by Epiphanius Wilson
• Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes / Various; translated by Isaac Taylor Headland
• Chinese Painters : A Critical Study / Raphaël Petrucci; translated by Frances Seaver
• A Chinese Wonder Book / Norman Hinsdale Pitman; illustrated by Chu-T'ang Li
• Eastern Shame Girl / ; translated by G. Soulié de Morant
• Instigations : Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character / Ezra Pound and Ernest Fenollosa
• Chinese Poems / Various; translated by Charles Budd
• A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China / L. Cranmer-Byng
• Miscellanea / Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
• More Translations from the Chinese / ; translated by Arthur Waley
• My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard / Elizabeth Cooper
• Myths and Legends of China / E. T. C. Werner
• Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar : Life / Thomas Wallace Knox
• Peach Blossom Shangri-la : Tao Hua Yuan Ji / Qian Tao
• The Sayings Of Confucius / Confucius; translated by Leonard Arthur Lyall
• Sidelights on Chinese Life / J. Macgowan
• Some Chinese Ghosts / Lafcadio Hearn
• The Talking Beasts : A Book of Fable Wisdom / ; edited by Nora Archibald Smith; edited by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
• The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics / Laozi; translated by James Legge
• Ten Great Religions : An Essay in Comparative Theology / James Freeman Clarke