Chinese Text Project
Public domain · Chinese Text Project (Donald Sturgeon)
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Pre-modern Chinese texts in the original, many shown beside an English translation and the scanned edition they were taken from.
Before you rely on itReading is free, but bulk downloading is blocked and the API is reserved for paying institutions; the crowd-sourced scanned library varies in quality and accuracy.
Where to read Confucius, Zhuangzi or a dynastic history with dictionary lookup on every character.Community pick
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- How you get in
- Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Rights
- Public domainCopyright has expired. Read, copy and keep it freely.
- Subjects
- Philosophy · History · Literature · Languages
- Formats
- Web · Scan
- Languages
- Classical Chinese, much of it with parallel English translation
- Run by
- Chinese Text Project (Donald Sturgeon)
- Address
- ctext.org
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