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Classical Chinese

23 works

中庸

Doctrine of the Mean

Zisi · c. 500-450 BCNonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

大學

Great Learning (Daxue)

Zengzi · 5th century BC (attrib.)Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

孟子

Mencius

Mencius (Mengzi) · 4th century BCEEssays / Nonfiction Short Works (Collection)

山海經

Classic of Mountains and Seas

Unknown · c. 4th-1st century BCNonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

莊子

Zhuangzi

Zhuang Zhou · 300 BCENonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

韓非

Han Feizi

Han Fei · c. 250 BCENonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

公羊传

Gongyang Zhuan

Gongyang Gao · written down c. 150 BCENonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

史記

Records of the Grand Historian

Sima Qian · c. 91 BCENonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

楚辭

Songs of the South

Liu Xiang · compiled c. 50 BCPoetry Collection

太玄經

Taixuanjing

Yang Xiong · 2 BCEReligious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text

法言

Fayan

Yang Xiong · c. 9Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय सूत्र

Heart Sutra

Unknown · c. 7th centuryReligious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text

洞庭靈姻傳

Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake

Li Chaowei · c. late 8th centuryNovella / Short Novel / Light Novel

大藏經

Great Storage of Scriptures (Chinese Buddhist canon)

Zhisheng · c. 730 (compilation of Kaiyuan Catalogue)Religious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text

六祖大師法寶壇經

Platform Sutra

Unknown · c. 780Religious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text

遊子吟

Wanderer's Song

Meng Jiao · c. 800Poetry Collection

锦江集

Brocade River Poems

Xue Tao · c. 800Poetry Collection

易經

I Ching

Duke of Zhou; Confucius · c. 9th centuryReligious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text

漢宮秋

Autumn in Han Palace

Ma Zhiyuan · c. 1300Drama / Comedy / Theatrical Work

聊齋誌異

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Pu Songling · 1740Stories / Tales / Myths (Collection)

唐詩三百首

Three Hundred Tang Poems

Li Bai (Li Po); Wang Wei; Du Fu · 1763Poetry Collection

閱微草堂筆記

Notes of the Thatched Abode of Close Observations

Ji Yun · 1800Stories / Tales / Myths (Collection)

孟东野诗集

The Poems of Meng Dongye

Meng Jiao · 1959Complete Works / Omnibus