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Chinese History

  • Classic of Poetry: Chinese Agricultural Calendar (ca. 800-600 BCE)
  • Noble Eightfold Path (ca. 528 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)
  • Sun Tzu: The Art of War (ca. 500 BCE)
  • Zheng He: Inscription to the Goddess the Celestial Spouse (1431)
  • Qing Dynasty Sacred Edict (ca. 1725)
  • Qianlong: Letter to George III (1793)
  • Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
  • Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication (1912)
  • Sun Yat-sen: 'The Three Principles of the People' (1921)
  • Mao Zedong: 'Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan' (1927)
  • John Foster Dulles: Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China (1957)
  • Mao Zedong: The Little Red Book (1966)
  • Deng Xiaoping: 'Emancipate the Mind' (1978)
  • Li Hongzhi: Zhuan falun (1994)
  • Analects of Confucius (ca. 479-249 BCE)
  • Han Feizi (ca. 230 BCE)
  • Classic of Rites (ca. 200-100 BCE)
  • Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron (74-49 BCE)
  • Ban Gu: 'Treatise on Food and Money' (ca. 60-90)
  • 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)
  • Yao Zui: 'Continued Classifications of Painters' (ca. 575-600?)
  • Zhangsun Wuji: Tang Code (637)
  • '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)
  • Guo Jujing: The Twenty-four Exemplars of Filial Piety (ca. 1300)
  • Matteo Ricci: 'Religious Sects among the Chinese' (1615)
  • Regent Dorgon: Two Edicts concerning the Wearing of Hair under Manchu Rule (1644-1645)
  • Meritorious Deeds at No Cost (ca. 1650)
  • 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)
  • 'Manslaughter over an Outhouse' (1722)
  • Wu Jingzi: Fan Jin Passes the Juren Examination (ca. 1740-1750)
  • Chen Hongmou: On the Duties of an Official (ca. 1750)
  • Chen Hongmou: On Substantive Learning (ca. 1750)
  • Cao Xueqin and Gao E: The Story of the Stone (ca. 1750-1792)
  • Hong Liangji: .The Deterioration of Local Government. (1793)
  • Hong Liangji: .China.s Population Problem. (ca. 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)
  • Daoguang: Imperial Edict (1836)
  • Zhu Zun: Memorial on Banning Opium (1836)
  • Xu Naiji: Memorial on Legalizing Opium (1836)
  • Annexed Laws on Banning Opium (1839)
  • Lin Zexu: 'Moral Advice to Queen Victoria' (1839)
  • Lord Palmerston: Dispatch to the Minister of the Emperor of China (1840)
  • Feng Guifen: 'On the Adoption of Western Learning' (ca. 1850)
  • The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom (1853)
  • Zongli Yamen: Circular Letter on the Unequal Treaties (1878)
  • Zhu Yixin: Fourth Letter in Reply to Kang Youwei (ca. 1891)
  • Chu Chengbo: 'Reforming Men's Minds Comes before Reforming Institutions' (1895)
  • Kang Youwei: Comprehensive Consideration of the Whole Situation (1898)
  • Emperor Guangxu: Abolition of the Examination System (1898)
  • Ye Dehui: 'The Superiority of China and Confucianism' (ca. 1899)
  • John Hay: First 'Open Door' Note to Andrew D. White (1899)
  • Reform Edict of the Qing Imperial Government (1901)
  • Boxer Protocol (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)
  • He Zhen: 'What Women Should Know About Communism' (ca. 1907)
  • Liu Shipei and He Zhen: 'Anarchist Revolution and Peasant Revolution' (1908)
  • Press Coverage of the Wuchang Uprising (1911)
  • Chen Duxiu: 'The True Meaning of Life' (1918-1919)
  • Sun Yat-sen: 'The Three Stages of Revolution' (1918)
  • Hu Shi: 'Our Attitude toward Modern Western Civilization' (1926)
  • Hu Shi: Appeal for Legal Rights (1929)
  • Luo Longji: 'What Kind of Political System Do We Want?' (1930)
  • Emergency Law for the Suppression of Crimes against the Safety of the Republic (1931)
  • Principles for the Organization of the 'Manchukuo' Government (1932)
  • Hu Shi: 'National Reconstruction and Absolutism' (1933)
  • Jiang Tingfu: 'Revolution and Absolutism' (1933)
  • Chiang Kai-shek: 'Essentials of the New Life Movement' (1934)
  • Mao Zedong: On Guerrilla Warfare (1937)
  • Chiang Kai-shek: Reply to Prince Konoye (1938)
  • Liu Shaoqi: How to Be a Good Communist (1939)
  • Mao Zedong: 'Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art' (1942)
  • 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)
  • Ji Yun: 'How China Proceeds with the Task of Industrialization' (1953)
  • Mao Zedong: 'On the Co-Operative Transformation of Agriculture' (1955)
  • 'Mao Tse-tung's Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause' (1966)
  • Shanghai Communique (ca. 1972)
  • Hao Ran: 'Date Orchard' (1974)
  • Deng Xiaoping: 'Uphold the Four Cardinal Principles' (1979)
  • Taiwan Relations Act (1979)
  • Deng Xiaoping: 'The Present Situation and the Tasks before Us' (1980)
  • Constitution of the People's Republic of China (1982)
  • Fang Lizhi: 'The Social Responsibility of Today.s Intellectuals' (1985)
  • Declaration of Hunger Strike (1989)
  • Interview with the Dalai Lama on China, Hatred, and Optimism (1997)
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