Introducing the New Comprehensive Collection of Chinese Classics

The Digital Library of Chinese Classics (DLCC) is the most comprehensive collection of classical texts widely related to Confucianism to date. It is the outcome of 20 years of dedicated research and editorial work, led by Ji Xianlin, Tang Yijie, and Wang Bo of Peking University, involving 500 scholars from over 50 universities across China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

De Gruyter Brill is proud to present this resource in a single digital edition, supporting the study and teaching of classical Chinese, Chinese literature, history, philosophy, and religion. It also provides an indispensable foundation for research in comparative studies in Eastern and Western philosophy, intellectual history, and textual traditions

Scope and Content

• 510 texts, providing the top-quality editions, each text presented with a detailed editor’s note
• See the complete list of texts
• 200 million characters, equivalent to 282 volumes across 140,000 pages
• 458 classical texts and commentaries in four categories:
  • Classics (經 Jing): 190 texts
  • History (史 Shi): 56 texts
  • Philosophy/Masters (子 Zi): 85 texts
  • Literature (集 Ji): 127 texts
• 52 recently excavated manuscripts from across China
• Plus: An additional 160 Chinese language texts from Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese collections will be added at a later stage at no additional cost.

• Multiple dictionaries integrated to facilitate easy lookup on the same page
• Parallel reading panels to easily compare texts
• Advanced faceted search and convenient annotation & referencing tools
• Users may export a given passage in several formats, including plain text and xml
• Each text fragment equipped with a unique URN for intra-database identification
• Characters have been manually typed and images created, to avoid mistakes through OCR
• Texts are punctuated for easy reading