Read the source,
see the base text
Watering a civilisation that grows freely
A library that carries only primary texts: volumes and chapters organised by the classic fourfold division, missing chapters and characters marked explicitly and never filled in, all searchable and readable offline. How to read is not decided here; it is yours.
Classics × History × Masters
Collections × Anthologies × Individual works
Base text × Collation × Fidelity
The Classics Library
Classics, history, masters, collected works · first 112 titles · source texts from Chinese Wikisource (CC BY-SA)
📖 Source text first
This site carries primary texts only: organised by volume and chapter, readable, searchable, and saveable for offline use.
🔍 Fidelity to the base edition
Where the base edition lacks a chapter, lacks characters (marked with □) or shows an abnormal length, the page says so plainly — nothing is filled in, nothing is emended silently.
📤 Open sources
Base texts come chiefly from open-licensed sources such as Chinese Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0), cleaned of markup before entering the database.
🧭 The way of reading is yours
No reading method is prescribed here; the source text and its provenance are laid out clearly, and each reader’s way of reading grows on its own.