The Echoes of Classics series presents the classics of Chinese literature in a bi-lingual (simplified) Chinese-English format. Many of these books...

Hong Lou Meng , sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber , the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during...

The True Story of Ah Q , a representative work of Lu Xun, is looked upon as a masterpiece in modern Chinese literature, of which Lu Xun is a...

Born around 145 BCE., Sima Qian was educated in the classics, served his emperor on a variety of missions, and in 107 BCE succeeded his father as...

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted significant and continuous influence through his short...

The celebrated Chinese classic novel is a masterpiece of realism written in the middle of the-eighteenth century. Taking as its background the...

Pinghua (评话) was originally referred to the performance art of story-telling in which the performer told the story without any singing or musical acc...