Read the real Chinese classics

Public-domain literature in a learner's reader: tap any word for pinyin and definitions, color words by HSK level, switch between traditional and simplified, then review what you save with local SRS. Free — no account, everything stays in your browser.

吶喊Call to Arms
魯迅 Lu Xun · 1918–1922 · 15 pieces

Lu Xun's first story collection — 狂人日記, 孔乙己, 阿Q正傳 and the other stories that started modern Chinese literature.

65% of words ≤ HSK 4
彷徨Wandering
魯迅 Lu Xun · 1924–1925 · 11 pieces

The second collection — 祝福 (New Year's Sacrifice), 傷逝 and nine more stories of disillusion after the May Fourth movement.

69% of words ≤ HSK 4
朝花夕拾Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk
魯迅 Lu Xun · 1926 · 12 pieces

Ten warm, sharp memoir essays about childhood in Shaoxing — the gentlest entry point into Lu Xun's prose.

67% of words ≤ HSK 4
野草Wild Grass
魯迅 Lu Xun · 1924–1926 · 22 pieces

Twenty-three prose poems — short, dark, and strange. The most literary and most challenging collection here.

63% of words ≤ HSK 4
呼蘭河傳Tales of Hulan River
蕭紅 Xiao Hong · 1940 · 8 pieces

Xiao Hong's lyrical last novel — a childhood in a small Manchurian town, told in seven chapters and an epilogue.

73% of words ≤ HSK 4
西遊記Journey to the West
吳承恩 Wu Cheng'en · c. 1592 · 100 pieces

The Ming-dynasty classic — Monkey, Pigsy and the monk Tripitaka's journey west, one 回 per chapter, all one hundred of them.

54% of words ≤ HSK 4

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