Research Guides: EALC : East Asian Languages and Cultures: Literary Texts

Literary Texts

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry This link opens in a new window Index to 450,000 poems; 250,000 full text. With commentaries; biographies; a glossary; foreign language poetry; translations; and audio recordings.
Literature Online (LION) [ProQuest] This link opens in a new window Fully searchable library of 350,000+ works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies, criticism and reference sources.
Short Story Index Retrospective [EBSCO] 1915-1983 This link opens in a new window Lists short stories published in magazines, journals, and books; search by author, title or subject.

[Chinese] Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
[Japanese] Aozora: Blue Sky Collection
[Japanese] National Diet Library Digital Collections
[Korean] Korean Literature in Translation

Chinese Stories This link opens in a new window
A collection of digital graded readers for Chinese language learners. Books are available in both simplified and traditional Chinese character versions, accompanied by English and pinyin. There is a built-in dictionary function, listing of competency levels for Chinese characters, and audio tracks.