The evidence stays visible.
Text, interpretation, and personal study remain separate layers.
What is included
8 complete imported witnesses · 279 reading sections · 9,629 source blocks · 350,752 Han-character occurrences · 5,184 distinct Han graphs.
172 excerpt-level teaching notes and English reading aids · 30 linked grammar topics. Every passage has a computed reading guide, exact-source recall practice, personal interpretation fields, and a device-local review schedule. Automatic guides use written forms and punctuation; they do not assign contextual senses or supply a translation.
Sunzi has 13 received chapters plus one alternate 行軍 section. The Mao Shijing witness includes received prefaces and prose notes; displayed counts include these explicitly labelled layers.
“Complete” refers to the text files in these pinned witnesses, not all textual witnesses, commentaries, excavated manuscripts, or the whole Classical language.
Spelling and pronunciation
The reading text preserves the chosen witness. Global script preference does not rewrite quotations. Modern Mandarin or Cantonese character readings can aid study, but they are not resolved passage readings or reconstructions of ancient pronunciation.
How the text was prepared
Exact UTF-8 source files and their SHA-256 values are retained. HTML reading text removes encoding headers, page/paragraph markers, whitespace and leading section numbers; spelling and punctuation are otherwise preserved. Numbered Shijing poem headings become section metadata; source lineation is retained for optional display. Front matter from the new repositories is retained as original files and excluded from reading passages. Passage units follow the supplied source blocks and are not asserted to be original ancient divisions. Stable local IDs identify this pinned import; a new source edition must be reconciled before reusing IDs.
Punctuation belongs to the digital witness, not necessarily the ancient composition. Hiding it is a reversible reading exercise; it does not recreate an excavated manuscript. Any source anomaly remains visible.
What the English means
zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. Notes and translations explain selected excerpts, not every word of a full passage. These drafts are not independently reviewed and do not substitute for a critical edition. Alternatives and unresolved readings are marked where identified.
Reuse
Imported text derivatives and original teaching additions: CC BY-SA 4.0. Every exported passage card retains work, source, attribution, version, and licence. Personal notes are separately labelled.
Pinned witnesses
論語
Traditionally associated with Confucius and his disciples; compiled across generations.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR1h0004 · pinned source ↗89b65734d4386e2478179c77741a968bfc627abb
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗孟子
Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR1h0001 · pinned source ↗8decdf43d5a82b779f7950a7782b9a5e09659564
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗老子
Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR5c0057 · pinned source ↗8f585085ff4ef2580eeb0f4376a763a62bcc7a95
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗莊子
Traditionally associated with Zhuang Zhou; the received collection includes multiple voices and layers.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR5c0126 · pinned source ↗abb9cd323dfd9520894b56b3b8ba2ec0ea50554f
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗荀子
Traditionally associated with Xun Kuang; the received collection contains multiple textual layers.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR3a0002 · pinned source ↗e18a27621ef434940a368defd29e00eee205dfd2
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗韓非子
Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR3c0005 · pinned source ↗55418cf95c05d3bcc35e26bb568cf0a8da957332
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗孫子
Traditionally attributed to Sun Wu; the date and formation of the received text are debated.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR3b0003 · pinned source ↗96402eede8bde255fef03e02377448bbcf20a248
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗詩經
Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
KR1c0001 · pinned source ↗9d36bf3a055b7aba01597f0c0581838ef56dc497
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kanripo licence statement
Files, hashes, and acquisition metadata ↗Further study
Edwin G. Pulleyblank · Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar
Further study: word order, predication, nominalization, negation and complex sentences. Book content is not reproduced.
Robert Eno · Introduction to Literary Chinese, Part I
Further study: an academic primer with annotated readings and exercises. Not imported.
Introduction to Classical Chinese · Schonebaum and contributors
Further study: function words and reading lessons. CC BY-NC-SA material is not imported into this dataset.
Thesaurus Linguae Sericae
Further research: contextual historical senses and syntactic analysis. No TLS annotation import in this release.
The Chinese Text Project is also a valuable research destination. Its access terms and translation rights are source-specific; no CText corpus or modern copyrighted translation has been scraped into this release.
Corpus manifest · Teaching notes with attribution · Grammar data