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Welcome
Welcome to the Chinese Text Project homepage. The Chinese Text Project is a web-based e-text system designed to present ancient Chinese texts, particularly those relating to Chinese philosophy, in a well-structured and properly cross-referenced manner, making the most of the electronic medium to aid in the study and understanding of these texts. You may wish to read more about the project, view the pre-Qin and Han or post-Han tables of contents, or consult the instructions, FAQ, or list of tools.
This site is provided as a free resource funded by advertising and donations. If you would consider making a monetary donation towards the cost of running the site, this would be greatly appreciated - please click here for details.
Latest additions
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| 2011-11-09 | Punctuation change and Unicode 6.0 A few minor updates have been made to the site. Firstly, the traditional Chinese editions will now display standard traditional Chinese punctuation (「、」、『、』); simplified Chinese editions will continue to use simplified punctuation (“、”、‘、’). Secondly, the dictionary section of the site has been updated to include all Unicode 6.0 characters. As most systems will not have fonts installed for all of the new characters, some characters listed in the dictionary may not be displayed on your system and may appear as empty boxes or question marks - these will most likely be rarely used or variant characters. If you would like to enable the new characters, please install a font supporting CJK Extension C and CJK Extension D. Suitable fonts include the Hanazono fonts, freely available here. For further details please refer to the Font Test Page. Finally, a minor usability enhancement has been made to the dictionary page to make it easier to look up complex characters by radical (e.g. "人"): clicking on the stroke count (e.g. the text reading "5 strokes") on the radical lookup pages will magnify all the characters in that row for easier reading. |
| 2011-05-13 | Songben Guangyun and Kangxi Zidian scans linked to dictionary Dictionary entries now link to scanned copies of the Guangyun and Kangxi dictionaries. Look up a character using the main dictionary page, then click on the links listed under "Dictionary references" to jump to the corresponding pages in these resources. |
Recent discussion topics
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| 2012-01-26 by bobby4755 | 史記 孔子世家 太史公贊有誤 太史公曰：《詩》有之：「高山仰止，景行行止。」雖不能至，然心鄉往之......可謂至"圣"矣！ [More...] |
| 2012-01-23 by lylzlhlslzl | 四书章句集注•梁惠王下7中"國君進賢"句的注疏成粗体字啦！ 如题。 [More...] |
| 2012-01-19 by gzdillon | 导航栏 反现一个非常严重的缺陷，没有导航栏！ 一般的长文档，被分页之后，都是用「首页、前页、后页、 [More...] |
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 CSS support such as Mozilla Firefox to get the most out of the site.