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Shanhaijing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas)山海經
The oldest geography of the lands beyond the mountains and outside the seas, and a storehouse of myth. No single hand made it: it took shape from the Warring States down to the Han through many hands, and in the fourth century Guo Pu set his commentary to it. The nine-tailed fox, the jingwei bird, Kuafu, Xingtian and Xiwangmu all come from here. "Within the Eastern Sea, in a corner of the Northern Sea, there is a land named Joseon" — one of the earliest records in which the name Joseon survives stands in this book.
All 18 volumes and 40 entries fully translated (869 paragraphs, 431 notes). The source text is the Siku Quanshu edition on Wikisource, whose terms of use are open worldwide. Only Guo Pu's old commentary is carried; the sixteen modern collated commentaries, beginning with that of Yuan Ke (袁珂, 1916–2001), were parted from it on account of copyright. The graph counts were matched against the source text entry by entry, and all forty entries were confirmed to differ by not a single graph.
Classic of the Seas — Within the Seas
- Within the Seas海內經 · 39 passages · 1,535 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — The Great Wilds, North
- The Great Wilds: North大荒北經 · 32 passages · 1,197 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — The Great Wilds, West
- The Great Wilds: West大荒西經 · 50 passages · 1,412 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — The Great Wilds, South
- The Great Wilds: South大荒南經 · 33 passages · 1,106 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — The Great Wilds, East
- The Great Wilds: East大荒東經 · 36 passages · 992 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Within the East
- Within the Seas: East海內東經 · 44 passages · 908 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Within the North
- Within the Seas: North海內北經 · 27 passages · 562 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Within the West
- Within the Seas: West海內西經 · 24 passages · 728 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Within the South
- Within the Seas: South海內南經 · 18 passages · 429 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Beyond the East
- Beyond the Seas: East海外東經 · 17 passages · 583 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Beyond the North
- Beyond the Seas: North海外北經 · 22 passages · 697 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Beyond the West
- Beyond the Seas: West海外西經 · 23 passages · 616 Chinese characters
Classic of the Seas — Beyond the South
- Beyond the Seas: South海外南經 · 23 passages · 667 Chinese characters
Classic of the Mountains — Centre
- Wu Zang Shan Jing — Closing the Mountain Guides五臧山經 · 2 passages · 171 Chinese characters
- Twelfth Guide to the Central Mountains中次十二經 · 18 passages · 786 Chinese characters
- Eleventh Guide to the Central Mountains中次十一經 · 49 passages · 1,732 Chinese characters
- Tenth Guide to the Central Mountains中次十經 · 10 passages · 308 Chinese characters
- Ninth Guide to the Central Mountains中次九經 · 17 passages · 849 Chinese characters
- Eighth Guide to the Central Mountains中次八經 · 24 passages · 862 Chinese characters
- Seventh Guide to the Central Mountains中次七經 · 20 passages · 1,138 Chinese characters
- Sixth Guide to the Central Mountains中次六經 · 15 passages · 852 Chinese characters
- Fifth Guide to the Central Mountains中次五經 · 16 passages · 498 Chinese characters
- Fourth Guide to the Central Mountains中次四經 · 10 passages · 456 Chinese characters
- Third Guide to the Central Mountains中次三經 · 6 passages · 444 Chinese characters
- Second Guide to the Central Mountains中次二經 · 10 passages · 404 Chinese characters
- First Guide to the Central Mountains中山經 · 16 passages · 603 Chinese characters
Classic of the Mountains — East
- Fourth Guide to the Eastern Mountains東次四經 · 10 passages · 566 Chinese characters
- Third Guide to the Eastern Mountains東次三經 · 10 passages · 412 Chinese characters
- Second Guide to the Eastern Mountains東次二經 · 18 passages · 711 Chinese characters
- First Guide to the Eastern Mountains東山經之首 · 13 passages · 565 Chinese characters
Classic of the Mountains — North
- Third Guide to the Northern Mountains北次三經 · 49 passages · 2,219 Chinese characters
- Second Guide to the Northern Mountains北次二經 · 17 passages · 780 Chinese characters
- First Guide to the Northern Mountains北山經之首 · 26 passages · 1,548 Chinese characters
Classic of the Mountains — West
- Fourth Guide to the Western Mountains西次四經 · 21 passages · 1,505 Chinese characters
- Third Guide to the Western Mountains西次三經 · 23 passages · 3,921 Chinese characters
- Second Guide to the Western Mountains西次二經 · 18 passages · 1,045 Chinese characters
- First Guide to the Western Mountains西山經之首 · 20 passages · 2,409 Chinese characters
Classic of the Mountains — South
- Third Guide to the Southern Mountains南次三經 · 15 passages · 926 Chinese characters
- Second Guide to the Southern Mountains南次二經 · 18 passages · 1,067 Chinese characters
- First Guide to the Southern Mountains南山經之首 · 10 passages · 1,300 Chinese characters