/lit/ - Literature

>>21995692
>Romance of the Three Kingdoms Moss Robers or Yu Sumei
Thanks for the translation recommendations for this one. At the risk of asking a cliche question, is Romance of the Three Kingdoms kind of like the Iliad of China? Obviously there are some cultural, historical and structural differences, but I was mainly thinking in terms of both of them being mythological tellings of real historical events that happened in the past.

>>21995733
>literally just finished the classic of mountains and seas
If it's an English translation you read, can you tell me the name of the translator and whether or not it's a good English translation?

>and i was about to start with the investiture of the gods
That's another one I'd like a good English translation of as well. Mainly because Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West are prominent classical examples of Shemo or Gods and Demons fiction. Which is a genre within Chinese literature. When I tried to find pic related's recommendation for it (titled "Creation of the Gods" here), I was disappointed to find out that it was out of print and being sold for two to three thousand dollars on Amazon. So hopefully there's a newer, multi-volume translation that's still circulating in stores.

>but i thought "eh lets take a brake and go shitpost for a bit first" and i came here and this was the first thread i saw.
>you have no idea how helpful your list is anon, thank you so much.
Well I'm glad that this coincidence worked out in your favor then. So hopefully both you and I find what we're looking for ITT.

>no official /lit/ Wuxia chart
Kisama! I'll j-just go find it myself, baka! Actually, it might be fun to try find Wuxia I like and make a chart one day in the future.

>>21478892
>>21479106
Chinese

On on how China's government functions
>China's political system by Heilmann

General yet riveting history of China and the US
>The China Mirage by Bradley

Rural China in the 90s from American tesl
>River town by Hessler

Understand the base level philosophy of China (I.e. Christianity is to the US)
>The analects of Confucius

Chinese cooking
>Every grain of rice by dunlap

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>>18105463
I know jack shit about Chinese literature but I found this chart a while ago

>>17962983

- John Keay : China : A History

- Confucianism : An Introduction (I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion)

- Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: The Highest Order of Cultivation AND On the Practice of the Mean (Penguin Classics)
- Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett Classics Series)
- Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett Classics)

- The Book of Songs ( Arthur Waley )
- The Book of Documents ( Shang Shu )
- The Book of Rites (Li Ji): English-Chinese Version
- The Classic of Changes : A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi (Translations from the Asian Classic)
- Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (Classics of Chinese Thought): Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals": Three Volumes ( ! )

- Xunzi: The Complete Text ( Eric L. Hutton )
- Daoism : An Introduction (I.B. Tauris Introductions to Religion)

- Tao Te Ching (D.C. Lau)
- Lao-Tzu's Taoteching ( Red Pine )

- The Complete Works of Zhuangzi (Translations from the Asian Classics)
- Zhuangzi (Brook Ziporyn edition)

- The Book of Lieh-Tzu: A Classic of the Tao (Translations from the Oriental Classics)
- The Mozi: A Complete Translation (Translations from the Asian Classics)
- The Book of Lord Shang: Apologetics of State Power in Early China (Translations From the Asian Classics)
- Han Feizi: Basic Writings (TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS)
- The Art of War (Everyman's Library Classics)

- Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies)
- Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies)
- Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies)

- How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology (How to Read Chinese Literature)

- Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of t'Ang and Sung Dynasty Verse ( Red Pine )

- The Classic of Mountains And Seas (Penguin Classics S.)

- The Songs of the South : An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems By Qu Yuan And Other Poets

- Three Hundred Tang Poems ( Everyman )

- The Selected Poems of Li Po
- The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
- The Selected Poems of Wang Wei (New Directions Paperbook)
- In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-Wu ( Red Pine )
- Po Chu-i: Selected Poems (Translations from the Asian Classics)
- The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain ( Red Pine )
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Water Margin
- Journey to the West
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- The Plum in the Golden Vase
- Unofficial History of the Scholars

- Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)

- Shen Fu : Six Records of a Life Adrift (Hackett Classics

>>17642214
Some people find some of the four classics boring, and if you feel the same way when you read them, stick to just Dream of the Red Chamber. Otherwise, I'd say most of the pre-modern stuff is great.

>>17633512

>>17438510
Enjoy some comfy sinokino anon.

>>17317868
Read Okakura Kakuzō and the four Chinese classics for a good background. Picrel is a chart or Chinese literature...

>>17186749
Vietnamese. I still cling on the hope of finding good books on here though. lit also has a pretty good chink chart

>>16945745
There's this chart but it isn't a really a philosophy chart

>>16855022
There is more fiction on this chart than I imagine you'd like based off of your post but I'd give the fiction a try as well

Requesting chart of Thelema and/or Alesteir Crowley works.

>All these countries with no future or that are gonna look like latino melting pot tier shithole in the future