Digital Library of Chinese Classics

Texts and commentaries of Confucianism

DLCC (Digital Library of Chinese Classics - texts and commentaries of Confucianism) is the most complete and comprehensive collection of texts on Confucianism to date. Carefully selected by top scholars over a period of 20 years, this vast collection covers 510 Confucian texts, including 458 "heirloom" classic texts and 52 excavated manuscripts from different parts of China. An additional 160 Chinese-language texts from Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese collections will be added later.

Each text is chosen from multiple available editions to ensure best quality, and presented with an editor’s note about the author, the text’s significance to the development of Confucianism, and discrepancies between different editions.

The collection, mounting up to 200 million (traditional Chinese) characters, is uniformly punctuated for easy reading and interpretation. The digital library is equipped with faceted search functions, reference materials such as A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese, convenient annotation tools, and multiple export formats including unique URNs for practical intra-database identification.

The size and specialized functionalities of the database make DLCC the most reliable, comprehensive, and versatile digital source for the study of Chinese philosophy, history, and religion, making this a one-stop-for-all library of classical Ch inese humanities.

Editorial Team:

• Editor-in-Chief: Tang Yijie, Peking University
• Editors: headed by Peking University’s Ru Zang Compilation and Research Center 北京大学《儒藏》编纂与研究中心, a group of nearly 500 scholars from 50 institutions in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.