An Outline of the History of China

Confucian Classics

• Confucius
  The writings of confucious
  Analects of Confucius (ca. 479.249 BCE)
• Mandate of Heaven (ca. 475.221 BCE)
• Mencius (ca. 350.300 BCE)
• Dao De Jing (ca. 300.200 BCE)
• Canon of Filial Piety (ca. 300.239 BCE)
• Han Feizi (ca. 230 BCE)
• Classic of Rites (ca. 200.100 BCE)
• Ban Zhao: Lessons for a Woman (ca. 80)
• Wang Bi: .Outline Introduction to the Laozi. (ca. 245) Daoist Meditations (364.370)
• Yan Zhitui: Family Instructions for the Yen Clan (ca. 560.590)
• Guo Jujing: The Twenty-four Exemplars of Filial Piety (ca. 1300)
• Yuan Huang: Ledgers of Merit and Demerit (ca. 1575)
• Meritorious Deeds at No Cost (ca. 1650)
• Classic of Poetry: Chinese Agricultural Calendar (ca. 800.600 BCE)
• Noble Eightfold Path (ca. 528 BCE)
• Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron (74.49 BCE)
• Ban Gu: .Treatise on Food and Money. (ca. 60-90)
• Sun Tzu: The Art of War (ca. 500 BCE)
• Yao Zui: .Continued Classifications of Painters. (ca. 575-600?)
• .The Song of Lasting Regret. (807)
• Han Yu: .Memorial on the Buddha.s Bones. (819)
• Ouyang Xiu: .On the Partisanship of Friends. (1044)
• .When Heirs Have Already Been Installed, They Ought Not to Be Displaced. (ca. 1127.1279)
• Cai Kang: .Forging of Official Documents. (ca. 1230-1270)
• Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou (1298)
• Zheng He: Inscription to the Goddess the Celestial Spouse (1431)
• Matteo Ricci: .Religious Sects among the Chinese. (1615)
• Zhangsun Wuji: Tang Code (637)
• Regent Dorgon: Two Edicts concerning the Wearing of Hair under Manchu Rule (1644.1645)
• .Manslaughter over an Outhouse. (1722)
• Qing Dynasty Sacred Edict (ca. 1725)
• Yang Guangxian: I Cannot Do Otherwise (1665)
• Edict of Emperor Kangxi (1692)
• Clement XI: Ex illa dei (1715)
• Zhang Xingyao: .Lord of Heaven Teaching and the Teaching of Confucian Scholars. (1715)
• Decree of Emperor Kangxi (1721)
• Wu Jingzi: Fan Jin Passes the Juren Examination (ca. 1740.1750)
• Cao Xueqin and Gao E: The Story of the Stone (ca. 1750.1792)
• Chen Hongmou: On the Duties of an Official (ca. 1750)
• Chen Hongmou: On Substantive Learning (ca. 1750)
• Qianlong: Letter to George III (1793)
• Daoguang: Imperial Edict (1836)
• Zhu Zun: Memorial on Banning Opium (1836)
• Xu Naiji: Memorial on Legalizing Opium (1836)
• Lin Zexu: .Moral Advice to Queen Victoria. (1839)
• Annexed Laws on Banning Opium (1839)
• Lord Palmerston: Dispatch to the Minister of the Emperor of China (1840)
• Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
• Zongli Yamen: Circular Letter on the Unequal Treaties (1878)
• Hong Liangji: .China.s Population Problem. (ca. 1793)
• Hong Liangji: .The Deterioration of Local Government. (1793)
• Hong Liangji: Memorial on the War against Heterodoxy (1798)
• Hong Liangji: Letter to Prince Cheng Earnestly Discussing the Political Affairs of the Time (1799)
• The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom (1853)
• Boxer Protocol (1901)
• Feng Guifen: .On the Adoption of Western Learning. (ca. 1850)
• Zhu Yixin: Fourth Letter in Reply to Kang Youwei (ca. 1891)
• Chu Chengbo: .Reforming Men.s Minds Comes before Reforming Institutions. (1895)
• Emperor Guangxu: Abolition of the Examination System (1898)
• Kang Youwei: Comprehensive Consideration of the Whole Situation (1898)
• Ye Dehui: .The Superiority of China and Confucianism. (ca. 1899)
• Reform Edict of the Qing Imperial Government (1901)
• Liang Qichao: .Renewing the People. (ca. 1902.1905)
• Zhang Binglin: Letter Opposing Kang Youwei.s Views on Revolution (1903)
• Chinese Alliance Association: Revolutionary Proclamation (1907)
• Press Coverage of the Wuchang Uprising (1911)
• Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication (1912)
• He Zhen: .What Women Should Know About Communism. (ca. 1907)
• Liu Shipei and He Zhen: .Anarchist Revolution and Peasant Revolution. (1908)
• Sun Yat-sen: .The Three Stages of Revolution. (1918)
• Chen Duxiu: .The True Meaning of Life. (1918.1919)
• Sun Yat-sen: .The Three Principles of the People. (1921)
• Hu Shi: .Our Attitude toward Modern Western Civilization. (1926)
• Luo Longji: .What Kind of Political System Do We Want?. (1930)
• Jiang Tingfu: .Revolution and Absolutism. (1933)
• Hu Shi: .National Reconstruction and Absolutism. (1933)
• Mao Zedong: .Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan. (1927)
• Hu Shi: Appeal for Legal Rights (1929)
• Emergency Law for the Suppression of Crimes against the Safety of the Republic (1931)
• Chiang Kai-shek: .Essentials of the New Life Movement. (1934)
• Liu Shaoqi: How to Be a Good Communist (1939)
• Mao Zedong: .Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art. (1942)
• Mao Zedong: The Little Red Book (1966)
• Mao Zedong: On Guerrilla Warfare (1937)
• Chiang Kai-shek: Reply to Prince Konoye (1938)
• Chiang Kai-shek: Speech before the Preparatory Commission for Constitutional Government in Chungking (1945)
• George Marshall: The Mediator.s View of the Situation in China (1947)
• Mao Zedong: .On the People.s Democratic Dictatorship. (1949)
• Mao Zedong: .On the People.s Democratic Dictatorship. (1949)
• Ji Yun: .How China Proceeds with the Task of Industrialization. (1953)
• Mao Zedong: .On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture. (1955)
• Intellectual Opinions from the Hundred Flowers Period (1956.1957)
• John Foster Dulles: Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China (1957)
• Mao Zedong: The Little Red Book (1966)
• "Mao Tse-tung.s Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Ca
• use" (1966)
• Shanghai Communique (ca. 1972)
• Hao Ran: .Date Orchard. (1974)
• Taiwan Relations Act (1979)
• Deng Xiaoping: .Emancipate the Mind. (1978)
• Deng Xiaoping: .Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles. (1979)
• Deng Xiaoping: .The Present Situation and the Tasks before Us. (1980)
• Constitution of the People.s Republic of China (1982)
• Declaration of Hunger Strike (1989)
• Li Hongzhi: Zhuan falun (1994)
• Interview with the Dalai Lama on China, Hatred, and Optimism (1997)