A small, original reading companion for English-speaking learners interested in Chinese classics. The guides offer reading methods and exercises; the ChineseStudy reading site hosts the reading pages they refer to.
Public home: chinesestudyorg.github.io.
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/: English home and guide index. -
/zh/: Chinese introduction to the English guides, with a Chinese reading entry. -
/guides/first-classical-chinese-reading/: Choose a short passage, read it three times, and keep a focused note. -
/guides/reading-tang-poetry/: Follow scene, speaker, and change; try an image map. -
/guides/tao-te-ching-and-analects/: Trace a word through a chapter and read a conversation in its situation. -
/guides/reading-mencius/: Follow the king’s question, an analogy, and the steps of an argument in Liang Hui Wang. -
/guides/reading-zhuangzi/: Separate action, speakers, and interpretation, beginning with Cook Ding in Nurturing Life.
The Chinese home introduces the English guides; it does not present them as translated articles.
Run from this directory:
python3 -m http.server 8765Open localhost:8765. Root-relative URLs require a server rooted in this directory. No build, JavaScript runtime, package installation, or external font is needed.
For the account site, use a repository named chinesestudyorg.github.io. In the repository settings, choose Pages → Deploy from a branch → main → / (root). Keep .nojekyll in the root. No Actions workflow is required.
Canonical URLs, homepage language alternatives, JSON-LD, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml use https://chinesestudyorg.github.io/. If the public hostname changes, update all of them together. Include only real canonical pages in the sitemap. The original guides have no translated equivalents, so they have no translation hreflang declarations.
The prose and reading exercises were written for this guide site. Do not copy reading-site pages, modern translations, or third-party commentary into this repository. Link to a passage in context, and identify the edition or translation when discussing one. Check external links and scholarly claims when updating an article. Do not promise search ranking or imply that an exercise gives a definitive interpretation.
Each guide links to a relevant passage on the official reading site. Only the prominent official reading CTAs use utm_source=github_pages, utm_medium=referral, utm_campaign=reading_guides, and a page-specific utm_content. Ordinary references stay clean. Canonical URLs and the sitemap never contain campaign parameters. This site contains no analytics SDK; whether referrals appear in reporting depends on the reading site's existing analytics.
The guides link to chinesestudy-guide for source context and awesome-chinese-classics for reading resources. Keep those destinations aligned with their actual repository roles.
Before publishing an edit, check the seven public pages at mobile and desktop widths, keyboard focus and skip navigation, internal links and section anchors, unique titles and descriptions, JSON-LD, sitemap URLs, and the relevant external reading pages. The layout supports reduced motion and printing. Assets are local; system font availability affects exact glyph shapes.
assets/social-card.svg is an editable visual source. A local PNG is used in social metadata only when present; SVG is not declared as an Open Graph image. No license was added. Place any local-only notes in .local/, which is ignored by Git.
Scope checked against current public catalogs: eleven book directories; Mencius260 and Zhuangzi33 reading entrances in each of Chinese and English; Tang poems306; Song Ci83 Chinese/78 English reading pages. These counts describe site entry coverage, not critical-edition completeness. Song Ci is still growing and language coverage differs. The two Chinese cultural articles are labeled as Chinese on the English home. Existing five guide exercises remain; obsolete Mencius/Zhuangzi scope paragraphs are updated, and the Tang-poetry guide links to the Song Ci directories. This refresh was approved for publication on 10 November 2026.