LibGuides: Primary Sources: China: Literature

Online Sources: Literature - Chinese

Chinese Literature at the HathiTrust
Chinese Literature Today
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Chinese Literature Today includes original fiction and non-fiction, poetry,and interviews as well as critical essays.
Ming-Qing Women's Writings
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"The Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project is dedicated to the digitization of collections of writings by women in late imperial China (1368-1911). "
Red Brush
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"The Red Brush project is a collection of texts in Chinese from a wide range of writings from Imperial China, by and about women writers. The website for this collection is available in both English and Chinese. "
“DATE ORCHARD” By Hao Ran (English Translation)
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Asia for Educators website.
Chinese Poems of the Tang and Sung Dynasties
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Book Sources: Literature - Chinese

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Anthology of Chinese Literature by Cyril Birch
Call Number: PL2658.E1 B617 A6
ISBN: 0394177665
v. 1 From early times to the 14th century.
v. 2. From the 14th century to the present day.
An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911 by Stephen Owen (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: PL2658.E1 A814 1996
ISBN: 0393971066
Early China -- The Chinese "Middle Ages" -- The Tang Dynasty -- The Song Dynasty -- The Yuan and Ming Dynasties -- The Qing Dynasty
Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused by Howard Goldblatt (Editor)
Call Number: PL2658.E8 C43 1995
ISBN: 080211573X
China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology by Jing Wang (Editor); Eva Shan Chou (Translator); Michael S. Duke (Translator); Howard Goldblatt (Translator); Beatrice Spade (Translator)
Call Number: PL2658.E8 C46 1998
ISBN: 0822321009
The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature by Mark Bender (Editor); Victor H. Mair (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780231526739
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei Chen (Editor)
Call Number: PL2658.E5 C65 2010
ISBN: 0231145705
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature by Victor H. Mair (Editor)
Call Number: PL2658.E1 C65 1994
ISBN: 023107428X
The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry by Jonathan Chaves (Translator)
Call Number: PL2658.E3 C663 1986
ISBN: 0231061498
The Crane's Bill: Zen poems of China and Japan by Lucien Stryk (Translator); Takashi Ikemoto (Translator); Taigan Takayama (Translator)
Call Number: PL2478 .C891
ISBN: 0802130194
The Dao of the Military: Liu An's Art of War by Andrew Seth Meyer (Translator)
Call Number: U101 .H81713 2012
ISBN: 0231153325
Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-chin
Call Number: PL2727.S2 H95
The Golden Lotus
Call Number: PL2698.W246 C55 E29
a translation, from the Chinese original, of the novel Chin p‘ing mei, by Clement Egerton
The Isle Full of Noises: Modern Chinese Poetry from Taiwan by Dominic Cheung
Call Number: PL2658.E3 I85 1987
ISBN: 0231064020
The Jade Mountain by Witter Bynner (translator)
Call Number: PL2658.E3 S957 J2
A Chinese Anthology, being Three hundred Poems of the T‘ang dynasty, 618-906.
The Lioness Roars by Yenna Wu (Translator)
Call Number: L2658.E8 L55 1995
ISBN: 1885445814
Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema editor/translator
Call Number: PL2592.5 .M66 2010
ISBN: 1603842004
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu
Call Number: PL2879.X53 A2 2012
ISBN: 0674061470
Publication Date: 2012-01-02
Edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia ; with a foreword by Václav Havel
One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth
Call Number: PL2658.E3 R455 O5
Other Voices, Other Vistas by Barbara H. Solomon, editor
Call Number: PN6120.2 .O84 1992
ISBN: 0451628454
An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama by Martha P.Y. Cheung and Jane C.C. Lai
Call Number: PL2658.E5 O94 1997
ISBN: 0195868803
Pilgrim of the Clouds by Yuan Hung-Tao and his Brothers
Call Number: PL2658.E3 P638
ISBN: 0834801345
Translated and introduced by Jonathan Chaves.
The Poems of Mao Tse-Tung by Zedong Mao; Willis Barnstone (Notes by); Ching-Po Ko (Notes by)
Call Number: PL2785.O3 M285 1972
ISBN: 0060102195
Translation, introduction, notes by Willis Barnstone ; in collaboration with Ko Ching-po
Poems of the Masters by Red Pine
Call Number: PL2658.E3 P634 2003
ISBN: 1556591950
Qian jia shi : China's classic anthology of T'ang and Sung dynasty verse / Translated by Red Pine.
Reading the Right Text by Xiaomei Chen (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: PL2658.E5 R43 2003
ISBN: 9780824826895
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Lo Kuan-chung; San kuo chih yen-i; Translated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor
Call Number: PL2690.A2 S25 B847
The She King, or, The book of Ancient Poetry by James Legge
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
translated in English verse
Stone Lake: The Poetry of Fan Chengda by J. D. Schmid, editor and translator
Call Number: PL2687.F3 A6 1992
ISBN: 0521417821
Stories from a Ming Collection by Cyril Birch
Call Number: PL2658.E8 F332 S9
Translations, of Chinese short stories published in the seventeenth century
Sunflower Splendor by Wu-Chi Liu (Editor); Irving Y. Lo (Editor)
Call Number: PL2658.E3 S958
ISBN: 025335580X
Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Theater and Society by Hai-pìng Yen
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780765603074
Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
Call Number: PL2658.E3 W173 T7
"Contains all the poems originally published in [the author's] two collections: 170 Chinese poems and More Translations from the Chinese."
Vignettes from the Late Ming by Yang Ye (Translator)
Call Number: PL2658.E8 V54 1999
ISBN: 0295977337
Voices of East Asia by Margaret Childs (Editor); Nancy Hope
Call Number: PL494 .V65 2015
ISBN: 0765638347
Waiting for the Unicorn by Irving Y. Lo (Editor); William Schultz (Editor)
Call Number: PL2537 .W28 1986
ISBN: 0253363217
Women Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun Chang (Editor); Haun Saussy (Editor); Charles Yim-tze Kwong (Editor)
Call Number: PL2278 .W65 1999
ISBN: 0804732302
Writing Women in Modern China by Amy D. Dooling (Editor); Kristina M. Torgeson (Editor)
Call Number: PL2515 .W75 1998
ISBN: 0231107013

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