ALTERNATE TITLE
中華經典古籍庫
CATEGORY
Classical Texts
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http://www.zhonghuadiancang.com/
DESCRIPTION
The Zhonghua Classics Database contains the standard punctuated versions of many important Chinese classical texts in the fields of philosophy, history and literature (such as biji ) as published by Zhonghua Shuju and other major publishers of punctuated editions. The database also includes the 360 volume Quan Song Wen 《全宋文》set as e-books. Quan Song Wen is a collection of Chinese prose dating from the Song dynasty that was first published in 2006 by 上海辭書出版社. In addition to browsing whole titles, this digitized version has been optimized to search simultaneously variant forms of characters (defaults can be changed in the advanced search), and includes especially useful ways to search variants of biographical data, place names, etc. Dictionaries, chronology converters are included. These functions also pop up whenever you select a character in the main text. To access the database, you have to click on 登录 and choose IP登录 in case you are not automatically recognized as a Princeton user. For simple reading and searching, no individual registration is needed, but if you wish to copy text, make notes, submit corrections, save searches, etc. you have the following two choices: 1) You can use one of four generic Princeton accounts with the following details Username: plsdguji4@163.com plsdguji3@163.com plsd2@163.com plsd1@163.com Password (for all of the 4 accounts above): 123123 2) You can register a personal account To sign in for both options, please choose 登录 on the upper left and then switch to 邮箱登录 on the following page (right under the large 登录 button). Advanced searches can be made using the “specialized search” function. Downloading is not possible. Copying (with a maximum of 200 characters at a time (after signing in)) is, but only using the pop-up copy function, not the usual browser function. The original printed text is available for comparison; please click on the orange page numbers that are displayed in the running text. One oddity is the lack of an obvious home/(re)starting page: click on the database title for that function. Please note: Zhonghua shuju has just issued a new version of the database. The new version seems to have some problems with Firefox (display of scanned book pages), but works well with Chrome.
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Princeton China Studies Research Guide
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LAST MODIFIED
2026-01-16