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[General_Zhaoyun]

Links to online Chinese Literature Classics and Culture

China, due to its long history, has accumulated countless of chinese classics and literature from ancient times to today. These literature are in areas of history, art, literary (language), poetry, novels, military, medical etc.

For those who have interests in reading them, you can now read them online for free. All chinese classics are written in 'classical chinese' language (文言文). This might be difficult to read, even for native chinese who uses modern chinese language (白话文). However, certain major classics have been translated to modern chinese version, which makes the reading much easier to understand. Also, these major classics had also been translated into English as well as other languages in the west to help western sinology scholars understand chinese classics.

The following links might be useful for your interests in reading them online.
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>>CNovel.com

Link: http://www.cnovel.com [GB Chinese]

Contains a library of many, if not all, chinese classics including Confucius's Classics, Romance of 3 kingdoms, Sun Tze's Art of War, Records of the Grand Historian ("Shi Ji") etc. Virtually all chinese classics and novels can be found here.
You should have a good command of classical chinese language to be able to read them.


>>Chinapage's Chinese Literature Classics

Link: http://www.chinapage.com/classic1.html [English/Big 5 Chinese/GB Chinese/German]

Contains major chinese classics in pdf format. Some of these major classics have
english version and even german version. Classics include Confucius's Writing, Classics collection, Sun Tze's Art of War, Chinese Philosophy classics such as Book of Mencius, Chuang Tze, Mo Zi etc.


>>Chinapage's Chinese Poetry with English Translation

Link: http://www.chinapage.com/poetry.html [Big 5 Chinese/English]

A good place to read chinese poetry with english translation.


>>Sanguo Yanyi (三国演义) or Romance of 3 kingdoms novel

Link: http://www.kongming.net/novel/ [English]
http://www.qfxl.com/.../font_S/sangyy/ [GB Chinese - classical chinese]
http://www.goldnets....els/l/lgz/sgyy/ [GB Chinese - classical chinese]

One of the best place to read english version of "Romance of 3 kingdoms" novel online is the Kongming's archive (1st link). It also contains several links to 3 kingdoms website. The second and third links are the complete classical chinese version to Romance of 3 kingdoms online. The Romance of 3 kingdoms was written by Luo Guan Zong during the Ming dynasty, and include a complete historical fiction of the 3 kingdoms era.


>>Sanguozhi (三国志) or 3 kingdoms annal

Links: http://shuku.net:808...csdsgz/sgz.html (GB chinese version)
http://xf-www.hb.cni...hiji/sanguozhi/ (GB chinese version)

Two sites that contain the 3 kingdoms annal classics.


>>Zhizhi Tongjian Online (资治通鉴) OR "Comprehensive Mirror for Assistance in Government"

Link: http://shuku.net:808...smgzb/zztj.html [GB chinese version]

The complete Zizhi tongjian (ZZTJ) online in Chinese. Written by Sima Guang, the chinese historian during the Song dynasty.


>>Shiji (史 记) or "Records of the Grand Historian"

Links:

http://www.shuku.net...c/shiji/sj.html [GB chinese version, organised according to categories],
OR
http://www.guoxue.co.../shiji/sjml.htm[GB chinese version, organised according to chapters],
OR
http://www.ld.nbcom.net/shiji/ [GB chinese version, with modern chinese explanation]

"Shiji" was one of the most famous chinese history classic, written by Sima Qian, the chinese historian during western Han dynasty. The 1st link and 2nd link contains all the original writings. The third link contains an explanation of the classical chinese writings in modern chinese terms (good place to learn the classics, if you're not familiar with classical chinese). The "Shiji" contains a historiography from Prehistory till Western Han dynasty (Emperor Wudi's era).


>>Chinese History Classics in chinese
Links: http://www.guoxue.co...wxshi/shibu.htm

Contains all major chinese history classics such as "Shiji", "Zhizhi Tongjiang", "24 Histories" etc.


>>Hou Han Shu (后汉书) or "Late Han History"

Link: http://xf-www.hb.cni...hiji/houhanshu/

The complete Hou Han shu (HHS) online in Chinese. Written by Fan Ye, the chinese historian during Song dynasty, about late Han dynasty history.


>>lD Net

Link: http://www.ld.nbcom.net [GB chinese]

Good place to learn classical chinese online. You should have prior knowledge of modern chinese language. Contain a library of classical chinese literature with modern chinese explanation.


>>China Knowledge

Link: http://chinaknowledge.de/ [English]

Good place to learn chinese culture including chinese history, philosophy, religion etc.


>>Chinese Library on Web

Link: http://lib.washingto...chinaindex.html

A comprehensive listing of online links to various Chinese classics and writings. Navigation is presented in Chinese and English, and book names are presented in Chinese and Pinyin Romanization. Although most listed content is Chinese, there are some English translations.

>>Chinese Etymology

Link: http://www.chineseetymology.org or http://www.internati.../chin_home.aspx

A site that studies the evolution of chinese writing and characters. You can find here different forms of chinese writing starting from oracle seals, bronze seal till standard scripts etc. A great site for studying the origin of chinese character.

>>English Translation of Analects, Mencius, Daodejing

Link: http://www.chinahist...?showtopic=3708

Contain links to these famous confucius and taoism classics

(to be updated continuously..)

[Ghost_of_Han]

I found Kongming.net very helpfully, seems to have a huge forum.

[Shadowfax]

Nice links. B)

[General_Zhaoyun]

I found Kongming.net very helpfully, seems to have a huge forum.

The kongming's archives is one of the best and most informative sites for R3K in english. The forum, the scholars of Shen Zhou, has been around for 2 years and is pretty large.

[cniht]

国学

"国学" is the Chinese counterpart to "sinology". This site's sources include major classics in many fields, vast collection of poetry, news about the latest research process, introduction to personages, etc. Full membership is not free, however, it will not disappoint even a casual browser.

中国诗词网

Unlike the above one, this site focuses on poetry, boasting to have the largest online collection of Chinese poetry, of today and of old. It also has introductions to major classics in literature, which could be very helpful as a reading guide.

[General_Zhaoyun]

Some other quality chinese history, cultural sites and links (chinese sites):

>>在线历史文献 中国史部分

Link: http://www.cs.iastat...ry/histbook.htm

Info: Contain links to good chinese history websites and classics


>>中国传统文化网 (Chinese Traditional Culture Net)

Link: http://www.enweiculture.com/

Info: A quality website on chinese traditional culture


>>中国儒学网 (Chinese Confucianism Net)

Link: http://www.confuchina.com/

Info: A quality website on chinese confucianism


>>中国古典文学论坛 (Chinese Classical Literature Forum)

Link: http://www.gudian.net/index.asp

Info: A chinese forum for discussion of chinese classical literature


>>古风论坛 (Ancient Classics Forum)

Link: http://www.gufong.com/bbs/index.asp

Info: A chinese forums to discuss ancient chinese classics


>>全唐诗库 (All Tang's Poem Database)

Link: http://www3.zzu.edu.cn/qts/

Info: A database website containing all the poems from Tang's period


>>中国书法网 (Chinese Calligraphy Net Forum)

Link: http://www.freehead.com/

Info: Online chinese forum and community for discussing chinese calligraphy

>>北大中文论坛 (Beijing University Chinese Forum)

Link: http://www.pkucn.com/index.php

Info: Online forum for chinese studies ( chinese language, literature, culture etc)

[General_Zhaoyun]

Just found a new site

>>中国文化经典书库

Link: http://www.white-col...1-zg/03-guoxue/

Info: A directory list of all chinese classics and chinese cultural info


>>Speak Mandarin Site of Singapore - Multimedia

Link: http://www.mandarin....l?pg=89&mlid=89

Info: Contains cultural information in multimedia (sound, video) such as tea culture, 3 kingdoms etc.

[General_Zhaoyun]

>>中国古代文化常识

Link: http://zj.eduol.cn/zj_wz_s.asp?id=7940

Info: Contains good explanation on various terms that you will encounter in chinese history and culture. (Chinese site)

[snoopy123]

>>中国古代文化常识

Link: http://zj.eduol.cn/zj_wz_s.asp?id=7940

Info: Contains good explanation on various terms that you will encounter in chinese history and culture. (Chinese site)

Try Chinese Culture Articles Page. Lots of good readings on Chinese culture.

[Pattie]

And another: http://www.wku.edu/~...na/culture.html

[chinamytime]

www.chinancient.com

a good Chinese culture site with many pretty pics

[pretty]

mmm, I think you should update this topic, at least adding Amicina ( http://www.amicina.com )
I found that site for case, 1 month ago, and now I decided to promote it. Not for money or else. Just because it's something new and improving each day.
I think that a China-lover as me hasn't a better way to say thanks, than let other know.
Anyway, it is so big that it would be hard to describe in few words.
This long link is to the english version of the homepage: http://www.amicina.c...dex.php?lang=en