| 选集 | xuǎn jí | anthology |  |
| 选编 | xuǎn biān | selected works (poems, documents etc) / anthology | |
| 集子 | jí zi | anthology / selected writing |  |
| 选本 | xuǎn běn | anthology / selected works | |
| 总集 | zǒng jí | general collection / anthology | |
| 诗集 | shī jí | poetry anthology | |
| 楚辞 | Chǔ cí | Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu 楚[Chu3], collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝[Han4chao2] | |
| 唐诗三百首 | Táng shī sān bǎi shǒu | Three Hundred Tang Poems, an anthology collected around 1763 by Sun Zhu 孫誅|孙诛[Sun1 Zhu1] | |
| 名人录 | míng rén lù | record of famous men / anthology of biographies | |
| 孔丛子 | Kǒng cóng zǐ | the K'ung family Masters' anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, possibly forged in third century by Wang Su 王肅|王肃[Wang2 Su4] | |
| 白香词谱 | Bái xiāng cí pǔ | Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poems from Tang through to Qing times | |
| 舒梦兰 | Shū Mèng lán | Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜|白香词谱 | |
| 古文观止 | Gǔ wén Guān zhǐ | Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty | |
