books that may or not have be on the shelves of a scholar’s beijing studio

Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents (Lexian zhuan) ... Liu Xiang

Traditions of Divine Transcendents (Shenxian zhuan) ... Ge Hong

The Master Who Embraces Simplicity: Inner Chapters (Baopuzi neipian) ... Ge Hong

Arguments Weighed (Lunheng) ... Wang Cong

Resolving Doubts (Shiyi lin) ... Cao Zhi

Disputations on the Dao (Biandao lun) ... Cao Zhi

Record of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguo zhi) by Chen

History of the Later Han (Hou Han shu) ... Fan Ye

Annotated Classic on Waterways (Shuijing zhu) ... Li Daoyuan

Compendium of Observational and Computational Astronomy

Essentials of Elementary Learning and Selections from the Zhuang Zi and Lie Zi ... Pu Songling

The Handbook for Scholars on Essentials of Daily Life and Intellectual Activities ... Pu Songling

The Guideways of Mountains and Seas

Classified Materia Medica (Bencao gangmu) ... Li Shizen

The Complete Mastery of Correct Characters ... Zhengzi tong

The Etiology and Symptomatology of All Diseases ... Zhubing yuanhou lun

Secret Prescriptions of the Outer Tower (Aitai biyao)

Useless Gourd Collection ... Chu Renhuo

Random Jottings at the Cottage of Close Scrutiny ... Ji Yun

A Comprehensive Catalogue of Chinese Collections

The Classic of Spirits and Anomolies

Forest of Talk

Records of Miraculous Omens (Mingxiang ji) ... Wang Yan

Biographies of Immortals (Shenxian zhuan) ... Ge Hong

Studio of Leasure ... Ji Yun

Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng) ... Cao Xueqin

Categorised Records at an Overgrown Window (Pengchuang leiji) by Huang Wei

Unofficial History of the Scholars (Rulin waishi) ... Wu Jingzi

Record of Spending the Summer at Luanyang (Luanyang xiaoxialu) ... Ji Yun

Strange Talk from the Three Brushes (Sanbi yitan) ... Xu Yuanzhong

Accounts of Anomalies Heard and Seen (Wenjian yici) ... Xu Qiuzhai

Records of Rainy Nights under the Autumn Lamp (Yeyu qiudeng lu) ... Xuan Ding

What the Master Would Not Discuss (Zi bu yu) ... Yuan Mei

Unauthorised Compilations of Willow Cliff (Liuya waiban) ... Xu Kun

Occasional Accounts of Conversations at Night (Yetan suilu) ... He Bang

Words of Humour from an Ancient Bell (Xie duo) ... Shen Qifeng

Hearsay Accounts (Ershi lu) ... Yue Jun

New Words on the Autumnal Plains (Qiuping xinyu) ... Zhang Jingyun

Records of the Wildly Improbable (Wangwang lu) ... Zhu Hai

Miscellaneous Comments at the Hut of Dreams (Meng’an zazhu) ... Yu Jiao

Exotic Grass of the Glow-worm Window (Yingchuang yicao) ... Changbai Haogezi

Leftover Wine in the Goblets (Gusheng)

Discourses at Footwear Garden (Luyuan conghua) ... Qian Yong