📚 Chinese Classics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with chinese classics on their catalogue record, first published between 1592 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject chinese classics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,916 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Lun yu	Confucius	1750	103
Xunzi	Xunzi	1804	23
Han Feizi	Han Fei	1811	22
The Chinese classics	James Legge	1861	16
Yu wai Han ji zhen ben wen ku	Yu wai Han ji zhen ben wen ku bian zuan chu ban wei yuan hui	2011	15
Jing zhuan shi ci	Yinzhi Wang	1923	14
Guo yu	Ming Zuoqiu	1927	14
Gu dian wen xian yan jiu ji kan	Meiyue Pan	2007	13
孔叢子	孔鲋	1592	11
Baopuzi	Ge, Hong	1875	11
Guanzi	Guan, Zhong	1876	11
Jing xue li shi	Xirui Pi	1934	10
Mozi	Mozi	1876	9
中國歷代經籍典	Taiwan Zhonghua shu ju. Bian ji bu	1970	9
Jing yi shu wen	Yinzhi Wang	1817	8
Jing dian chang tan	Zhu, Ziqing	1971	8
Shou jing tu	Mujie Zhu	1846	7
Kao gu bian	Dachang Cheng	1922	6
Jing ji zuan gu	Yuan Ruan	1799	5
Liu yi gang mu	Tianmin Shu	1848	5
Jingzhai gu jin tou	Ye Li	1849	5
Gu jin wei shu kao	Jiheng Yao	1892	5
Jing xue tong zhi	Qian, Jibo	1936	5
白虎通德論	Ban, Gu	1594	4
春秋權衡	Chʻang Liu	1673	4
春秋皇綱論	王晳	1673	4
經典釋文	Lu, Deming	1673	4
石經考	Sitong Wan	1736	4
Gongshi di zi ji	Chang Liu	1775	4
Yan jing shi ji	Yuan Ruan	1823	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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