Shi Jing: the Book of Odes

Shi Jing: the Book of Odes

Text is displayed in traditional Chinese characters with translations given in both English and French. This site has a very useful feature in its dictionary components???rolling over a character with your mouse will display a rollover menu with a pronunciation guide and meaning. Clicking on a character will open a dictionary in a separate window, …
Subject: Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Classical Chinese Texts

Classical Chinese Literature

Classical Chinese Literature

This site includes such famous texts as the Tao Te Ching, Tang Poetry, the Art of War, the Analects, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Great Learning and Classic of Filial Piety. Characters are clickable and lead to an English translation.
Subject: Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Classical Chinese Texts

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

Resource providing links to mythology texts. Arranged alphabetically, users can browse everything from popular fairy tales to Russian ghost stories.
Subject: Social Sciences–Social Customs, Traditions, And Folklore–Folklore; Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Legends And Myths; Reading Zone–Myths & Fables–Multinational

Li Ki (The Book of Rites), Part 1

Li Ki (The Book of Rites), Part 1

The first volume of James Legge’s translation of 3rd century BC compiled Chinese classic texts on Chinese religious practices from the 5th to the 8th centuries BC. These ten books offer minute descriptions of many different aspects of Chinese culture from this period.
Subject: Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Classical Chinese Texts

Classical Chinese text searchable archive

Classical Chinese text searchable archive

This site provides full-text keyword searches of almost all major classical Chinese texts. Their archive includes ancient Confucian texts, their Song and Ming dynasties annotations and commentaries, and some literary texts.
Subject: Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Classical Chinese Texts

Classic of Daoist Virtue/ The Way of Virtue/ The Way and its Power/ Daode Jing/ Tao Te Ching

Classic of Daoist Virtue/ The Way of Virtue/ The Way and its Power/ Daode Jing/ Tao Te Ching

James Legge’s translation of Lao Zi’s (Lao-Tzu’s) Daoist Classic.
Subject: Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Classical Chinese Texts; Arts & Humanities–Religion & Theology–Faiths & Denominations–Other Faiths–Other Faiths Religious & Sacred Texts

Confucian Analects : the Lun Yu

Confucian Analects : the Lun Yu

This site contains the Lun Yu (499 sayings of Confucius) in more than twenty languages, as well as a varying amount of other Confucius related contents for each language.
Subject: Arts And Humanities–Online Texts–Classical Chinese Texts; Arts & Humanities–Religion & Theology–Faiths & Denominations–Other Faiths–Other Faiths Religious & Sacred Texts; Reference–Quotations; Arts & Humanities–Philosophy–Eastern–Chinese