It tells the love story of Li Longji, a Tang Dynasty emperor of China, and his concubine Yang Yuhuan. [more]

An eighteenth-century satire, the Scholars is outstanding among Chinese classic novels. [more]

One of the best known and best loved of the ancient Chinese novels which have come down through the ages. [more]

Journey to the West is a mythological novel based on many centuries of popular tradition. It was probably put into its present form in the 1570s by Wu Cheng'en (1500-82). [more]

First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. [more]

The Romance of the Western Bower, by Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), is a gem of Chinese classical drama and a masterpiece of Chinese literature. [more]