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The Chinese Classics
Sacred Books of The East, Vol. 3 Traditional Chinese Beliefs
Confucian Canon.
The Confucian Canon in Chinese and English
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This is a version of Legges' translation of the works of Confucius
in English and Chinese (using Unicode character entities),
in one large file.
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Confucian Analects (Lun Yü)
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The Analects were a collection of sayings written down
by Confucius' students in the period approximately
seventy years after his death.
Mencius
(Legge, tr. 1895).
The second book in the Confucian canon, the Meng-tzu, is named
after its author, also known as Meng K'o or Mencius (371-289 B.C.E.).
The Great Learning (Ta Hsüeh)
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The actual translation of the title of this work is
'Education for Adults'.
The text was written between 500 and 200 B.C.E.
The Doctrine Of The Mean (Chung Yung)
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This work, which is more mystical than the other Confucian
classics, is of unknown date.
The Five Classics
These are four of the 'Five Classics' of Chinese literature. The translations are all from the six-part Sacred Books of the East 'Sacred Books of China' series:
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 3
by James Legge [1879]
The Shû King, Shih King and Hsiâo King.
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 16
by James Legge [1899]
The I Ching.
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 27
by James Legge [1885]
The Lî Kî
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 28
by James Legge [1885]
The Lî Kî
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 39
by James Legge [1891]
Taoist texts, vol. 1; Lao-tse; Chuang-tzu part I.
Sacred Books of the East, Volume 40
by James Legge [1891]
Taoist texts, vol. 2; Chuang-tzu part II.
The Shu Ching
The Book of Historical Records.
This text describes events dating back to the third millenium B.C.E.,
and was written down during the Han dynasty (23-220 C.E.).
The Shih Ching
The Book of Odes.
This contains poems dating back to 1000-500 B.C.E.
The Book of Changes. Dating to approximately 3000 B.C.E., this famous oracular book is one of the oldest Philo Sophia in the world.
The Li Ki Part I
The Li Ki Part II
The Book of Rites.
This text describes Chinese religious practice from the eighth to the
fifth century B.C.E.
The fifth classic (which we don't currently have translation of at this site) is the Spring and Autumn Annals, the Ch'un Ch'iu. There was also a sixth classic, the Classic of Music (the Yüeh Ching), which was lost.
The Hsiao Ching
The Book of Filial Piety.
this is a fragmentary text, recommended by Confucius, one of the few that
survived the book burning.
Other Texts
The Shundai Zatsuwa (A Japanese Philosopher)
By Kyuso (Muro Naokiyo).
This text is an account of Japanese Neo-Confucian thought.
Traditional Chinese Beliefs
This section includes texts about traditional Chinese beliefs and other texts about Chinese culture.
Feng Shui by Ernest J. Eitel [1873] This is a short monograph about Chinese geomancy.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Translated by Lionel Giles [1910].