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Chinese Literature
alphabetical index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T W X Y Z
Transcription: Pinyin, syllables separated for alphabetical purposes

A[top]
All men are brothers = Shuihuzhuan
Analects = Lunyu
Art of War = Sunzi bingfa

B[top]
Bai hu tong 白虎通, political treatise (Later Han)
bai hua, "plain language", 1) a movement during late Qing/Republic to use everyday language instead of classical language wen yan, 2) modern everyday language
Bai mao nü 白毛女, "The White-Haired Girl", revolutionary theatre play
Bai she zhuan 白蛇傳, "The White Snake", Yuan theatre play
Bamboo annals = Zhushu jinian
Ban Gu 班固: Hanshu
Bao pu zi 抱朴子, Daoist treatise by Ge Hong (Jin)
Bei hu lu 北戶錄, account of foreign countries by Duan Gonglu (Tang)
Ben cao gang mu 本草綱目, pharmacological encylopedia by Li Shizhen (Ming)
Ben cao jing 本草經, pharmacological encylopedia by Tao Hongjing (Liang)
bi ji, "brush record" essays, a literary prose style popular from Song time on
Book of Changes = Yijing
Book of Documents = Shangshu
Book of Songs or Poetry= Shijing
Book of Rites = Liji
Bo wu zhi 博物志, a short encyclopedia about strange items by Zhang Hua (Jin)
Buddhist literature and sutras see also Buddhism

C[top]
Cai Yong 蔡邕 (Han): Duduan
Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (Qing): Hongloumeng
Cao Yu 曹禺 (Republic/PRC): Leiyu
Ce fu yuan gui 冊府元龜, political encyclopedia by Wang Qinruo et al. (Song)
Cha guan 茶館, "The Tea House", a theatre play by Lao She (Republic/PRC)
Chang hen ge, "Lament everlasting", a poem by Bai Juyi (Tang)
Chang Qu 常璩 (Jin): Hua yang guo zhi
Chang sheng dian 長生殿, "The Hall of Everlasting Life", a theatre play by Hong Sheng (Qing)
Chen Fu nong shu 陳旉農書, an agronomical treatise by Chen Fu (Song)
Chen Shou 陳壽 (Jin): Sanguozhi
Chong you lun, "Priority of the Being", a metaphysical work by Pei Wei (Jin)
Chu ci, "Poetry of the South", poems by Qu Yuan (Warring States)
Chun qiu 春秋, "Spring and Autumn", chronicle of Lu, one of the Five Confucian Classics (Spring and Autumn)
Chun qiu fan lu 春秋繁露, a metaphysical book by Dong Zhongshu (Former Han)
ci , a musical poetry style, contrafactury to an already existing melody, very popular during Song dynasty (see Song ci poems )
Confucian Classics, a collection of 5+4 to 13 canonical writings of Confucianism
Confucius = see Kongzi page
cong shu, collections of a books often from a particular thematical sphere, as a comprehensive or an anthological composition
Creation of the Gods = Fengshen yanyi
Cui Bao 崔豹 (Jin): Gujinzhu

D[top]
Da Dai Li ji 大戴禮記, a parallel to the Liji (Former Han)
Dai De (Dai Senior, Da Dai) 戴德 (Han): Da Dai Liji
Dai Sheng (Dai Junior) 戴聖 (Han): Liji
Dao de jing 道德經, the Daoist Classic, said to be written by Laozi (Warring States)
Da xue 大學, "The Great Learning", a Confucian Classic, one of the Four Books (Warring States to Han)
di fang zhi, geographical histories of particular areas
Dian lun, a literature critique by Cao Pei (Three Kingdoms)
Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 (Han): Chunqiu fanlu
Dong jing meng hua lu 東京夢華錄, a description of Kaifeng by Meng Yuanlao (Song)
Dream of the Red Chamber = Hongloumeng
Du duan 獨斷, a political tractate by Cai Yong
Du You 杜佑 (Tang): Tongdian
Duan Gonglu 段公路 (Tang): Beihulu

E[top]
Er nü ying xiong zhuan 兒女英雄傳, novel from the late 19th century
Er shi wu shi 二十五史, the 25 (or 22, 23, 24) official dynastic histories
Er ya 爾雅, a philosophical dictionary for synonyma, a Confucian Classic (Former Han)
Er ya yi

F[top]
Fa yan, "Words of measure", a philosophical writing by Yang Xiong (Former Han)
Fan Sheng Zhi shu 氾勝之書, agronomical treatise by Fan Shengzhi (Han)
Fan Ye 范曄 (Liu-Song): Houhanshu
Fang yan 方言, a dialect dictionary by Yang Xiong (Han)
Feng shen bang 封神榜 = Fengshen yanyi
Feng shen yan yi 封神演義, "The Investiture of the Gods", a 16th century novel
Feng su tong yi 風俗通義, encylopedia of customs and habits by Ying Shao (Han)
Five Classics = Wujing, the Five Confucian Classics Yijing, Shangshu, Shijing, Chunqiu-Zuozhuan, and Liji
Four Books = Sishu, the Four Confucian Books Mengzi, Lunyu, Daxue, Zhongyong
fu, rhapsody or prose-poetry, a lengthy type of throne offering poetry popular during Han
Fu Sheng 伏勝 (Han): Shangshu dazhuan
Fu xing shu, "Revival of the human nature", an essay by Li Ao (Tang)

G[top]
Gan Bao 干寶 (Jin): Soushenji
Gao Ming 高明 (Yuan): Pipaji
Gao seng zhuan, "Biographies of Eminent Monks", by Huijiao (Tang)
Ge Hong 葛洪 (Jin): Baopuzi, Shenxianzhuan
Gong yang zhuan 公羊傳, commantary to the Chunqiu by Gongyang Gao 公羊高, a Confucian Classic (Warring States)
Gu hua pin, "Old paintings", a painting critic and teaching by Xie He (Southern Qi)
Gu jin tu shu ji cheng 古今圖書集成, encyclopedia (Qing)
Gu jin zhu 古今注, small encyclopedia by Cui Bao (Jin)
Gu liang zhuan 穀梁傳, commentary to the Chunqiu by Guliang Shu 穀梁淑 or Xi 喜, a Confucian Classic (Warring States)
Gu shi shi jiu shou, 19 antique poems from the Han dynasty
gu wen, "old literature", 1) Confucian Classics claimed to be older than the early Han time jin wen texts, 2) a simple prose style revived during Tang dynasty to end the complicated parallelism of -see- pian wen "paired word" texts
Gu wen guan zhi, "Best admiring of old literature", a prose anthology by Wu Chucai and Wu Tiaohou (Qing)
guai ji, "reports of strange events", see anthologies like Liexianzhuan, Shanhaijing, Soushenji, Taiping guangji
Guan Zhong 管仲 (Spring and Autumn): Guan zi
Guan zi 管子, a politico-oeconomical tractate by Guan Zhong (Spring and Autumn to Warring States)
Guang ya 廣雅, a semantic dictionary by Zhang Ji (Han)
Guo yu 國語, historical anecdotes (Spring and Autumn)

H[top]
Hai Rui ba guan 海瑞罷官, "The Dismission of Hai Rui", a theatre play by Wu Han (PRC)
Han Fei zi 韓非子, Legist philosophical tractate by Han Fei 韓非 (Warring States)
Han gong qiu 漢宮秋, "Autumn in the Han Palace", a theatre play by Ma Zhiyuan (Yuan)
Han shi wai zhuan 韓詩外傳, commentary and complement to the Shi jing by Han Ying (Han)
Han shu 漢書, the History of Former Han by Ban Gu (Later Han)
Han Ying 韓嬰 (Han): Han shi wai zhuan
Han yue fu, an elegic style of poems during the Han dynasty, collected by the Bureau of Music
histories, see the page of standard histories (Shiji) and that of new historiographic styles (Zizhi tongjian)
Hong lou meng 紅樓夢, "Dream of the Red Chamber", novel by Cao Xueqin (Qing)
Hong ming ji, a Buddhist anthology by Sengyou (Liang)
Hong Sheng 洪昇: Changshengdian
Hou Han shu 後漢書, the History of Later Han by Fan Ye (Liu-Song)
Hua yang guo zhi 華陽國志, a regional history by Chang Qu (Jin)
Huai nan zi 淮南子, a metaphysical collection by Liu An (Han)
Huan Kuan 桓寬 (Han): Yantielun
Huan Tan 桓譚 (Han): Xinlun
Huang di nei jing 黃帝內經, "The Yellow Emperor's classic of medecine" (Han)
Huang di si jing 黃帝四經, a non-canonical Daoist collection (Han)
Huang ji jing shi, "Generic canon of the Imperial Extreme", a philosophical writing by Shao Yong (Song)
Huang liang meng 黃粱夢, "The Dream of Yellow Millet", a theatre play by Ma Zhiyuan (?; Yuan)
Huang shi gong san lüe 黃石公三略, a military tractate (Zhou to Han)

I[top]
Investiture of the Gods = Fengshen yanyi

J[top]
ji shi ben mo, historiographic category, describing historic eventy in their entirety and arranged thematically
Jia Yi 賈誼 (Han): Xinshu
Jie zi yuan, "Mustard seed garden", a painting manual (Ming)
Jin gang jing, "Diamont cutter sutra"
Jin gu qi guan, "Wonderful stories of old and modern times", a short novel anthology (Ming/Qing)
Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅, "Plums in a golden vase", a 17th century novel
jin wen, "modern texts", Confucian Classics that had survived the Qin dynasty and were in use during early Han
Jing Chu sui shi ji 荊楚歲時記, a regional history by Zong Lin (Liang)
Jing hua yuan 鏡花緣, "Flowers in a mirror", an early 19th century novel by Li Ruzhen
Journey to the West = Xiyouji

K[top]
Kang xi zi dian 康熙字典, dictionary of the Kangxi era (Qing)
Kong cong zi 孔叢子, collection of Confucian teachings by Kong Fu (Han)
Kong Fu 孔鮒 (Han): Kong cong zi
Kong Shangren 孔尚任 (Qing): Taohuashan
Kong shi jia yi 孔氏家儀 XXXXXX
Kong zi 孔子 (Kong fu zi 孔夫子), Confucius, a late Spring and Autumn philosopher and purported author and compilator of some of the Confucian Classics
Kong zi jia yu 孔子家語, "School sayings of Confucius", a complement to the Lunyu (Han)
Kong zi ji yu 孔子集語, a collection of scattered citations of Confucius, compiled by a) Xue Ju (Song) and b) Sun Xingyan (Qing)

L[top]
Lao Can you ji 老殘遊記, "The Travels of Lao Can", a late 19th century novel by Liu E
Lao She 老舍 (Republic/PRC: Chaguan
Lao zi 老子 (Zhou): Daodejing
Lei yu 雷雨, "The Thunderstorm", a theatre play by Cao Yu (PRC)
Li Daoyuan 酈道元 (Northern Wei): Shuijingzhu
Li Jing 李靖 (Tang): Li Wei gong wen dui
Li Ruzhen 李汝珍 (Qing): Jinghuayuan
Li Shizhen 李時珍 (Ming): Bencao gangmu
Li Wei gong wen dui 李衛公問對, a military tractate by Li Jing (Tang)
Liao zhai zhi yi, "Strange stories from the Leisure Studio", a novel collection by Pu Songling (Qing)
Lie nü zhuan, Stories of outstanding women, by Liu Xiang (Former Han)
Lie xian zhuan 列仙傳, stories of fairies and saints by Liu Xiang (Former Han)
Lie Yukou 列御寇 (Warring States): Lie zi
Lie zi 列子, a Daoist anthology by Lie Yukou (Warring States)
Li ji 禮記, a Confucian Classic, one of the Five Classics (Warring States to Han)
Liu An 劉安 (Han): Huai nan zi
Liu E 劉鶚 (Qing): Lao Can youji
Liu Shao 劉邵 (Cao-Wei): Renwuzhi
Liu tao 六韜, a strategic classic (Warring States)
Liu Xiang 劉向 (Han): Shuoyuan, Xinxu, Lienüzhuan, Liexianzhuan
Liu Xie 劉勰 (Liang): Wenxin diaolong
Liu Xin 劉歆 (Han): Xijing zaji
Liu Yiqing 劉義慶 (Liu-Song): Shishuo xinyu
Liu Zhiji 劉知幾 (Tang): Shitong
Lotus sutra (Miao fa lian hua jing), see also Buddhism
Lu Jia 陸賈 (Han): Xinyu
Lü Buwei 呂不韋 (Warring States/Qin): Lüshi chunqiu
Lü shi chun qiu 呂氏春秋, cosmological tractate by Lü Buwei(Qin, Han)
Lun heng 論衡, a rationalistic writing by Wang Chong (Later Han)
Lun yu 論語, "The Analects", the sayings of Confucius, a Confucian Classic, one of the Four Books (Warring States)
Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中 (Ming): Sanguo yanyi
Lute = Pipaji

M[top]
Ma Duanlin 馬端臨 (Yuan): Wen xian tong kao
Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠 (Yuan): Hangongqiu, Huangliangmeng
Mao shi 毛詩 = Shi jing
Meng gu mi shi (Menggu bishi) 蒙古秘史, "Secret History of the Mongols", biography of Chinggis Qaghan in Mongol language (Yuan)
Meng qi bi tan (Mengxi bitan) 夢溪筆談, a technical-scientific essay by Shen Gua (Song)
Meng Yuanlao 孟元老: Dongjing menghua lu
Meng zi 孟子, book of the second Confucian, Meng Ke 孟軻, a Confucian Classic, one of the Four Books (Warring States)
Mo zi 墨子, Mohist philosophical tractate by Mo Di 墨翟 (Warring States)
Mou zi li hou lun, "Master Mou dispelling doubts", a Buddhist manifesto (Cao-Wei)
Mu dan ting 牧丹停, "The Peony Pavillion, a theatre play by Tang Xianzu (Ming)

N[top]
Nan fang cao mu zhuang 南方草木狀, descriptions of southern plants, by Xi Han (Jin)
Nie hai hua 孽海花, "Flowers in a sea of sin", early 20th century novel by Zeng Pu
Nong sang ji yao 農桑集要, an agronomic treatise from the Yuan period
Nong shu 農書, an agronomic encyclopedia by Wang Zhen (Yuan); there is also a Nongshu by Chen Fu = Chen Fu nongshu
Nong zheng quan shu 農政全書, an agronomic encyclopedia by Xu Guangqi (Ming)
Novels, see the novels page

O[top]
Opera, see the theatre page and opera page

P[top]
Pai an jing qi, "Surprising (stories) causing the reader to pound the table", a novel anthology (Ming)
Pei wen yun fu 佩文韻府, dictionary arranged according to rhyming groups (Qing)
Peony Pavillion = Mudanting
Pi pa ji 琵琶記, "The Lute", a theatre play by Gao Ming (Yuan)
pian wen
, "paired words", rhythmic prose popular during time of division (see literature of Jin) and examples from the Wen xin diao long, signified by the many four word/character sentences.
Poems (see Shi jing, Chu ci, Yu tai xin yong, Wen xuan, Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan airs)

Q[top]
Qi xia wu yi 七俠五義 = Sanxia wuyi
Qian fu lun 潛夫論, a political-metaphysical writing by Wang Fu (Later Han)
Qian Han ji 前漢紀, alternative history of the Former Han by Xun Yue (Later Han)
Qian jia shi, "Poems of a thousand masters", an anonymous Southern Song anthology
Qie yun, "Cut rimes", a rime dictionary by Lu Fayan (Tang)
qu, a musical poetry style, often translated as "air", very popular as part of Yuan dramas, but also isolated as "san qu" (see Yuan qu poetry)
Quan Tang shi, "All shi poems of the Tang dynasty", a Qing compilation
Quan Tang wen, "All prose literature of the Tang dynasty", a Qing compilation

R[top]
Ren wu zhi 人物志, a psychological work by Liu Shao (Cao-Wei)
Ru lin wai shi 儒林外史, "The scholars", a 18th century novel by Wu Jingzi

S[top]
San cai tu hui 三才圖會, richly illustrated encyclopedia by Wang Qi (Ming)
San guo zhi 三國志, the History of the Three Kingdoms, by Chen Shou (Jin)
San guo yan yi 三國演義 (Sanguozhi yanyi 三國志演義), "The Three Kingdoms", a 15th century novel by Luo Guanzhong
san qu, "Scattered songs", fragments from Yuan time theatre plays
San shi liu ji 三十六計, "The 36 Stratagems", a military tractate from Southern and Northern Dynasties period
San xia wu yi 三俠五義, "Three heroes and five gallants", a 19th century novel
Scholars, the = Rulin waishi
Shan hai jing 山海經, geographical report containing many myths and anecdotes (Han)
Shang jun shu 商君書, "The book of Lord Shang Yang", a legist tractate by Shang Yang (Warring States)
Shang shu 尚書 or Shujing 書經, "Book of Documents", one of the Five Confucian Classics (Western Zhou)
Shang shu da zhuan 尚書大傳, a tradition to the Shangshu by Fu Sheng (Han)
Shang Yang 商鞅 (Warring States): Shang jun shu
Shen jian 申鑒, a political tractate by Xun Yue (Later Han)
Shen Dao 慎到 (Warring States): Shenzi
Shen Gua (Shen Kuo) 沈括 (Song): Mengqi bitan
Shen nong ben cao jing 神農本草經, a pharmacological treatise from the Zhou period
Shen xian zhuan 神仙傳, biographies of fairies and saints by Ge Hong (Liang)
Shen zi 慎子, a legist tractate partially lost, by Shen Dao (Warring States)
shi, a poetry form, like gu shi "old style poems" (see Yu tai xin yong) or lüshi "regular poems" (see Tang shi poems)
Shi guo chun qiu, "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms", history of China's southern kingdoms during Five Dynasties
Shi ji 史記, "Records of the Great Historian" universal history by Sima Qian (Former Han)
Shi jing 詩經, "Book of Songs/Poetry", collected by Mao, one of the Five Confucian Classics (Western Zhou)
Shi ming 釋名, a semantic dictionary (Han)
Shi Naian 施耐庵 (Ming): Shuihuzhuan
Shi pin 詩品, a literature critique by Zhong Rong (Division)
Shi san jing 十三經, the Thirteen Confucian Classics
Shishuo xinyu 世說新語, collection of anecdotes and tales of the Jin and Southern Dynasties period by Liu Yiqing (Liu-Song)
Shi tong 史通, "Comprehensive Treatises about Historiography", by Liu Zhiji (Tang)
Shui hu zhuan 水滸傳, "The Water Margin", a 15th century novel by Shi Naian
Shu jing = Shang shu
Shui jing zhu 水經注 "Comments of the Water Classic", a geographical work by Li Daoyuan (Northern Wei)
Shuo wen jie zi 說文解字, a character dictionary by Xu Shen (Later Han)
Shuo yuan 說苑, "Garden of explanations", a tractate by Liu Xiang (Former Han)
Si ku quan shu 四庫全書, "The whole books of the four storehouses", literature compendium (Qing)
Si ma fa 司馬法, "The Methods of the Minister of War", a military tractate by Sima Rangju (Warring States)
Sima Guang 司馬光 (Song): Zizhi tongjian
Sima Qian 司馬遷 (Han): Shi ji
Si shu 四書, the Four Confucian Books Meng zi, Lun yu, Da xue, Zhong yong
Song ci san bai shou, "300 Song poems", a Qing anthology
Sou shen hou ji
Sou shen ji 搜神記, Daoist anecdotical collection by Gan Bao (Jin)
Spring and Autumn = Chunqiu
Spring and Autumn of Lü Buwei = Lüshi chunqiu
Spring and Autumn of Master Yan = Yanzi chunqiu
Sun Wu 孫武 (Warring States): Sunzi bingfa
Sun Xingyan 孫星衍 (Qing): Kongzi jiyu
Sun zi bing fa 孫子兵法, "The Art of War", military tracate by Sun Wu (Warring States)

T[top]
Tai ji tu shuo, "Explanations of the chart of the Highest Extreme", a philosophical essay by Zhou Dunyi (Song)
Tai ping guang ji 太平廣記, "Extensive records of the Taiping era", anthology of fairy tales (Song)
Tai ping jing 太平經, "Classic of the Highest Peace", a Daoist writing (Later Han)
Tai ping yu lan 太平御覽, "Imperial overview of the Taiping era", encyclopedia (Song)
Tai xuan jing, "Classic of the Great Mystery", a philosophical writing by Yang Xiong (Former Han)
Tan jing, "The Altar Sutra", a writing by Huineng (Tang)
Tang cai zi zhuan 唐才子傳, "Biographies of outstanding people of the Tang dynasty"
Tang lü shu yi, "The far-reaching meanings of the Tang penal codex"
Tang hui yao 唐會要, institutional history of the Tang by Wang Pu (Song)
Tang shi san bai shou, "300 Tang poems", an anthology by Sun Zhu (Qing)
Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (Ming): Mudanting
Tao Hongjing 陶弘景 (Liang): Bencaojing
Tao hua shan 桃花扇, "The Peach Blossom Fan", a theatre play by Kong Shangren (Qing)
Teahouse = Chaguan
Theatre, see theatre page
Three Kingdoms = Novel Sanguo yanyi or History Sanguozhi
Thunderstorm = Leiyu
Tian gong kai wu, "Making things feasable by Heaven-approved work", a book about technique and agriculture by Song Yingxing (Ming)
Tian lun, "Treatise about Heaven", a philosophical writing by Li Yuxi (Tang)
Tian shuo, "Explanations about Heaven", a philosophical writing by Liu Zongyuan (Tang)
Tong dian 通典, "Comprehensive Manual", an encyclopedia by Du You (Tang)
Tong jian gang mu 通鑑綱目, "Highlights of the Comprehensive mirror" by Zhu Xi (Song)
Tong jian ji shi ben mo 通鑒紀事本末, "Events of the Comprehensive Mirror in their historical entirety", a historical digest by Yuan Shu (Song)
Tong shu, "Comprehensive book (about the Book of Changes)", also called Yi tong, a philosophical essay by Zhou Dunyi (Song)
Tong zhi 通志, "Comprehensive treatise of politics and regulations", political encyclopedia by Zheng Qiao (Song)

W[top]
Wang Chong 王充 (Han): Lunheng
Wang Fu 王符 (Han): Qianfulun
Wang Pu 王溥 (Song): Tanghuiyao, Wudai huiyao
Wang Qinruo 王欽若: Cefu yuangui
Wang Shifu 王實甫 (Yuan): Xixiangji
Wang Yinglin 王應麟 (Song-Yuan): Yu hai
Wang Zhen 王禎 (Yuan): Nongshu
Water Margin = Shuihuzhuan
Wei liao zi 尉繚子, a military tractate (Warring States)
Wen xian tong kao 文獻通考, an encyclopedia by Ma Duanlin (Yuan)
Wen xin diao long 文心雕龍, "The heart of Literature and Carving of Dragons", a literature critic by Liu Xie (Liang)
Wen xuan, "Selected Literature", an anthology by prince Xiao Tong (Liang)
wen yan, classical language basing on pre-Han and Han time Chinese, official language for documents until early Republic
Wen yuan ying hua, "Blossom and flowers of the literature garden", anthology by Li Fang et.al. (Song)
West Chamber = Xixiangji
White Snake = Baishezhuan
Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩 (Ming): Xiyouji
Wu Han 吳晗 (PRC): Hai Rui ba guan
Wu jing 五經, the Five Confucian Classics Yi jing, Shang shu, Shi jing, Chun qiu Zuo zhuan, and Li ji
Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓 (Qing): Rulin waishi
Wu ming lun, "The Nameless", a philosophical mystical writing by He Yan (Division)
Wu Qi 吳起 (Warring States): Wuzibr> Wu Yue chun qiu 吳越春秋, regional history (Warring States)
Wu zi 吳子, a military tractate by Wu Qi (Warring States)

X[top]
Xi Han 嵇含 (Jin): Nanfang caomu zhuang
Xi jing za ji 西京雜記, historical anecdotes by Liu Xin (Han)
Xi ming, "Western inscriptions", a philosophical writing by Zhang Zai (Song)
Xi xiang ji 西廂記, "The West Chamber", a theatre play by Wang Shifu (Yuan)
Xi you ji 西遊記, "The journey to the West", 1) a 16th century novel by Wu Cheng'en; 2) a Yuan time theatre play
(Da Tang) Xi yu ji, geographical "Report of the western regions (during the Great Tang dynasty)",
Xiao jing 孝經, "Classic of Filial Piety", a Confucian Classic (Warring States to Han)
Xin lun 新論, "New discourses", a political tractate by Huan Tan (Han)
Xin shu 新書, "New Writings", a political tractate by Jia Yi (FormerHan)
Xin Wenfang 辛文房 (Yuan): Tang cai zi zhuan
Xin xu 新序, "New order", a tractate by Liu Xiang (Former Han)
Xin yu 新語, "New words", a political tractate by Lu Jia (Former Han)
Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 (Ming): Nongzheng quanshu
Xu Shen 許慎 (Han): Shuo wen jie zi
Xue Ju 薛據 (Song): Kongzi jiyu
Xun Qing 荀卿 or Kuang 況 (Warring States): Xunzi
Xun Yue 荀悅 (Han): Qianhanji, Shenjian
Xun zi 荀子, late Confucian philosophical tractate by Xun Qing/Kuang (Warring States)

Y[top]
Yan shi jia xun 顏氏家訓, a Confucian tractate by Yan Zhitui (Northern Wei)
Yan tie lun 鹽鐵論, debate over state monopole by Huan Kuan (Former Han)
Yan Ying 晏嬰 (Han): Yanzi chunqiu
Yan Zhitui 顏之推 (Northern Wei): Yanshi jiaxun
Yan zi chun qiu 晏子春秋, historical anecdotes by Yan Ying (Warring States)
Yang Xiong 楊雄: Fang yan, Taixuanjing
Yi jing 易經, "Book of Changes", one of the Five Confucian Classics (Western Zhou to Han)
Yi li 儀禮, "Etiquette and Rites", a Confucian Classic (Warring States to Han)
Yi tong = Tong shu
Yi wen lei ju 藝文類聚, an encyclopedia by Ouyang Xun et al. (Tang)
Yi Zhou shu 逸周書, a political and historical account (Western Zhou)
Ying Shao 應劭 (Han): Feng su tong yi
Yu hai 玉海, encyclopedia by Wang Yinglin (Song, published under Yuan)
Yu liao zi = Weiliaozi
Yu tai xin yong, "New songs from the jade terrace", a collection of poems from Han to Sui
Yuan dao, "Going to the sources of the way", an essay by Han Yu (Tang)
Yuan qu san bai shou, "300 Yuan airs", a Qing time anthology
Yuan qu xuan, "Selected theatre plays from the Yuan dynasty"
Yuan Shu 袁樞 (Song): Tongjian jishi benmo
Yuan xing, "Going to the sources of human nature", an essay by Han Yu (Tang)
yue fu, "(Songs of the) Music Bureau", a ballad style popular during Han dynasty (see Yu tai xin yong)
Yue jue shu 越絕書, regional history (Warring States)

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Zeng Pu 曾樸 (Qing/Rep): Nie hai hua
Zhan guo ce 戰國策, "Stratagems of the Warring States"
Zhang Hua 張華 (Jin): Bo wu zhi
Zhang Ji 張揖 (Han/Cao-Wei): Guangya
Zheng dian, "Manual of politics", an encyclopedia by Liu Zhi (Tang)
Zhen guan zheng yao, a political tractate of the Zhenguan era (Tang)
Zheng meng, "Correcting the ignorant", a philosophical writing by Zhang Zai (Song)
Zheng Qiao 鄭樵 (Song): Tongzhi
Zhong guo fang zhi cong shu 中國方志叢書, collectaneum of regional annals and gazetteers (Qing)
Zhong Rong 鐘嶸 (Liang): Shipin
Zhong yong 中庸, "Doctrine of the Mean", a Confucian Classic, one of the Four Books (Warring States to Han)
Zhou li 周禮, "Rites of the Zhou", a Confucian Classic (Warring States to Han)
Zhou yi 周易, a part of = Yi jing
Zhu shu ji nian 竹書紀年, or "Bamboo annals", annalistic universal history of the state of Wei (Warring States)
Zhu Xi 朱熹, a Song time Neo-Confucian philosopher: Tong jian gang mu, Zhuzi jiali
Zhu zi 朱子 = Zhu Xi
Zhu zi jia li 朱子家禮, a ritual compendium (Song)
Zhu zi yu lei, "Manifold discussions of Master Zhu", a philosophical anthology of Zhu Xi's teachings (Song)
Zhuang zi 莊子, Daoist masterpiece by Zhuang Zhou 莊周 (Warring States)
Zi zhi tong jian 資治通鑒, masterpiece of annalistic historiography by Sima Guang (Song)
Zi zhi tong jian gang mu 資治通鑒綱目 = Tongjian gangmu
Zong Lin 宗懍 (Liang): Jing Chu sui shi ji
Zuo Qiuming 左丘明 (Zhou): Zuo zhuan
Zuo zhuan 左傳, a parallel writing to the Chunqiu by Zuo Qiuming, a Confucian Classic (Spring and Autumn)

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