Han dynasty literature

The Shiji (), also known as Records of the Grand Historian or '''''The Grand Scribe's Records''''' (), is a Chinese historical text that is the first of the Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written during the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BC by the early Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, building upon work begun by his father Sima Tan. The work covers a 2,500-year period from the age of the legendary Yellow Emperor to the reign of Emperor Wu of Han in the author's own time, and describes the world as it was known to the Chinese of the Western Han dynasty.

official history of China's Western Han dynasty, finished under the Eastern Han in the year 111

Chinese mathematics book, composed by several generations of scholars from the 10th century BCE

The Huainanzi is an ancient philosophical and governmental Chinese text made up of essays from scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, before 139 BCE. Compiled as a compendium for an enlightened sovereign and his court, the work attempts to define the conditions for a perfect socio-political order, derived mainly from a perfect (or enlightened) ruler. With a notable Zhuangzi 'Taoist' influence, alongside Chinese folk theories of yin and yang and Wu Xing, the Huainanzi draws on Taoist, Legalist, Confucian, and Mohist concepts. But it subverts the latter three in favor

book by Liu Xiang

Collection of anecdotes from Zhou Dynasty to Western Han by Liu Xiang

The Lunheng, also known by numerous English translations, is a wide-ranging Chinese classic text by Wang Chong (27 – ). First published in 80, it contains critical essays on natural science and Chinese mythology, philosophy, and literature.

ancient Chinese treatise

Chinese mathematical treatise written between 202 BC and 186 BC

supplement to the Analects consisting of accounts supposedly carried down by the family of Confucius, allegedly collected by his descendant Kong Anguo

stone carved books of the Confucian classics (175-183)

Han dynasty inscription on a cliff in the Yanran Mountains (89 AD)

biography of Taoist immortals

Chinese mathematics book by Xu Yue

poem written by Zhang Heng

thumb|page=32|A page from a modern copy of Yandanzi The Yandanzi or Yan Danzi () is an ancient Chinese text composed between the Qin and Han dynasties. Although some scholars favors a pre-Han dating for the text, others date the work to the early Han. Yandanzi has achieved considerable fame by the 2nd century BC. The anonymous text is a narrative tale regarding the attempted assassination of Qin Shi Huang.

Imperial Chinese government organ