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.
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.
The second collection — 祝福 (New Year's Sacrifice), 傷逝 and nine more stories of disillusion after the May Fourth movement.
Ten warm, sharp memoir essays about childhood in Shaoxing — the gentlest entry point into Lu Xun's prose.
Twenty-three prose poems — short, dark, and strange. The most literary and most challenging collection here.
Xiao Hong's lyrical last novel — a childhood in a small Manchurian town, told in seven chapters and an epilogue.
The Ming-dynasty classic — Monkey, Pigsy and the monk Tripitaka's journey west, one 回 per chapter, all one hundred of them.
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