Welcome
Welcome to the Chinese Text Project homepage. The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
You may wish to
read more about the project
, view the
pre-Qin and Han
,
post-Han
or
Wiki
tables of contents, or
consult the instructions
,
FAQ
, or list of
tools
. If you're looking for a particular Chinese text, you can
search for texts by title
across the main textual sections of the site.
網站有中、英文版本,也有繁、簡體版,可通過每頁左上角的連結隨時調整。
This site is provided as an open-access resource.
If you use this site in your teaching or research, please ask your university library to
subscribe
.
Donations
are also greatly appreciated.
Latest additions
Date
| Content
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2016-10-10
| Harvard Yenching Library Chinese materials added
Thanks to the support of Harvard Yenching Library,
over 5 million pages
of scanned materials from the Yenching Library collection have been added to the Library section of the site, including high quality images from the Chinese Rare Books Collection. Approximate transcriptions created using the ctext.org
OCR procedure
have also been added to the
Wiki
, making these materials full-text searchable. In future we hope to collaborate with other libraries to include materials from their Chinese language collections.
|
2015-07-02
| Support for Unicode 8.0 adds new characters
A new version of the Unicode standard has been released, defining thousands of additional rarely used and variant Chinese characters. Support for these has been added to the dictionary section of the site; to view these characters, please
install the latest version of the Hanazono font
. Many new characters belong to "CJK Extension E" - you can confirm system support for these from the
Font Test Page
.
|
Previous technical updates are listed in the "
Latest updates
" forum. Please note that only major technical updates are listed here; for content updates and recently added texts (which occur daily and hourly), please
log in
and refer to the
Wiki Recently Updated
sections.
Recent discussion topics
Date
| Content
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2024-05-25
by leotangfamily
| 標點符號建議
儒家 -> 孟子 -> 告子下 -> 35.1
建議更改標點符號:
原有:故天 [
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2024-05-18
by hayden0215
| 「桓公四年」?,文字?漏
?站?示「四年,春,正公,月狩于?,???也。」
??「四年春正月,公狩于?。?,?,?也。」 [
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2024-05-13
by oracle
| 斷句有誤
如題。 [
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Fonts and Compatibility
In order to view the Chinese text on this site, you will need to have a Chinese font and compatible web browser installed.
In addition, because the ancient texts on this site incorporate many now obsolete and rarely-used characters, you will need to install
a Unicode font which provides support for such characters (often referred to as CJK Extensions A through D).
A suitable font is the freely downloadable "
Hanazono
" font; "
Han Nom
" also includes many (though not all) of the required characters. To confirm whether your system properly supports these characters, please
see the
Font test page
. Proper support for Unicode (including so-called 'surrogates') is also needed, which may cause additional problems
for users with older operating systems.
The site is designed to comply to relevant W3C standards, and so should be usable in any standards-compliant
web browser. However, as the emphasis on this site is on usability and not compatibility with legacy browsers, it is
recommended that you upgrade to a browser with good standards support such as
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome to get the most out
of the site.