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Journey to the West 'is the first ancient Chinese romantic episodic novel about gods and demons. The earliest version of 'Journey to the West' was 'Newly Engraved Official Board Characters of Journey to the West' by Shide Hall in Jinling in the...
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms or Popular Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms) is a long-form historical romance novel written by the late Yuan and early Ming dynasty novelist Luo Guanzhong. It is based...
The Dream of Red Mansion, an ancient Chinese long fictional novel in the chapter-style genre, is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The widely circulated version consists of 120 chapters, with the first 80 chapters...
Tao Te Ching, a philosophical work composed by Laozi during the Spring and Autumn period, is also known as De Dao Jing, Dao De Zhen Jing, Laozi, Five Thousand Words, or Laozi's Five Thousand Characters. Written before the divergence of the Hundred...
The Art of War, also known as Wu Sunzi's Art of War, Sunzi, or Sun Wu's Art of War, is one of the ancient Chinese military treatises. It is the earliest extant military book in China and one of the earliest military works in the world, revered as the
Sima's Rules of War was first recorded in the Treatise on Literature section of The Book of Han, classified under the category of rites and titled Military Rites: Sima's Rules of War, totaling 155 chapters. After the Han Dynasty, the book underwent...
Six Tactics of War, traditionally attributed to Jiang Wang (also known as Taigong or Dangzi Ya), comprises sixty chapters in the extant version, totaling nearly 20,000 words, and is divided into six volumes: Tactics of the Civil, Tactics of the...
Wu Qi's Military Strategy, also known as The Art of War by Wu Zi, is a pivotal military treatise penned by the renowned general Wu Qi of the Warring States period. It stands as one of the representative works reflecting ancient military...
The Analects of Confucius (Lún Yǔ) is a collection of quotes compiled by the disciples and second-generation disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator during the Spring and Autumn Period, recording the words and deeds of Confucius and his...
The Water Margin 'is a long novel written by Shi Nai'an in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties (most of the existing editions are signed by Shi Nai'an or Luo Guanzhong, or both). It is the first episodic novel written in vernacular Chinese in...
The Great Learning is a prose essay expounding on the Confucian ideas of self-cultivation, family regulation, governing the state, and bringing peace to the world. Originally the 42nd chapter of The Book of Rites compiled by Dai De, it is...
The Doctrine of the Mean represents the moral standard of Confucianism, adhered to and esteemed by Confucian scholars throughout history. Also known as 'zhongyong,' where 'zhong' signifies moderation and 'yong' denotes common practice or constancy,...
