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Description
The Four Books App is a book reader and scholarly utility which presents the traditional Confucian curriculum: the Great Learning, the Discourses (or Analects), the Book of Mengzi, and the Doctrine of the Mean. A six-year translation project in progress. Book One is complete, new verses arrive in the app around the first of each month.
-- Ancient Teachings, Correct Transmission, Modern Tech --
Traditional Interpretation
• A public benefit project to translate Zhu Xi’s “Four Books with Collected Commentaries” 四書章句集注, the most influential East Asian classic of the last millennium.
Established Lexicon
• Builds upon the translation lexicon perfected by Wing-tsit Chan, with roots going back to James Legge. Honoring lineage—with conservative refinements. Uses modern pinyin, of course.
Learn Classical Chinese
• Study Classical and Middle Chinese with literal glosses for grammar and per-character meaning. Highly configurable dual-language presentation parsable by sentence.
Reading Experience
• Meticulous attention to readability: translation, typography, and a full-screen reader for iPad. This Classic deserves to be both scholarly and good reading, just as the native text is.
Optimized Multi-platform
• iPhone features intuitive tab bar design for one-handed navigation, while iPad leverages a powerful sidebar for efficient browsing through verses. Designed for iOS 26. Also runs on Apple Silicon Macs.
Apple Native UI
• Pure Apple native tech throughout: SwiftUI, FTS5 search, and an embedded SQLite Confucian database for lightning-fast location of verses, key terms, named persons and named texts.
-- Basic App & Scholar Pack In-app Purchase --
Basic App:
• Core Ancient Verses: 284 most influential
• Language: English translation only
• Search: Basic, English-only
• Encyclopedia: Ancient figures only
Scholar Pack:
• All Ancient Verses: 804 complete
• Traditional Commentary
• Language: English & Classical Chinese
• Tap Character for Literal Gloss
• Full-Verse Literal Gloss Sheets
• Sentence-Level Parsing Tool
• Search: English & Chinese
• Encyclopedia: Ancient and medieval figures
• Book 5: Explanation of Terms
• No ads, no account creation, no data collection
• Small offline app, low battery usage
Scholar Pack is a single in-app purchase that includes everything above. It has a final target price, but is currently priced lower based on the percentage completion of the translation. One-time purchase, with all future content delivered free.
-- Reach Out --
Please contact us at support@daoxue.academy, or using the in-app contact tools in settings, with questions or requests. We are committed to continual refinement and making this the optimal Confucian Classics app for both scholars and readers.
-- Ancient Teachings, Correct Transmission, Modern Tech --
Traditional Interpretation
• A public benefit project to translate Zhu Xi’s “Four Books with Collected Commentaries” 四書章句集注, the most influential East Asian classic of the last millennium.
Established Lexicon
• Builds upon the translation lexicon perfected by Wing-tsit Chan, with roots going back to James Legge. Honoring lineage—with conservative refinements. Uses modern pinyin, of course.
Learn Classical Chinese
• Study Classical and Middle Chinese with literal glosses for grammar and per-character meaning. Highly configurable dual-language presentation parsable by sentence.
Reading Experience
• Meticulous attention to readability: translation, typography, and a full-screen reader for iPad. This Classic deserves to be both scholarly and good reading, just as the native text is.
Optimized Multi-platform
• iPhone features intuitive tab bar design for one-handed navigation, while iPad leverages a powerful sidebar for efficient browsing through verses. Designed for iOS 26. Also runs on Apple Silicon Macs.
Apple Native UI
• Pure Apple native tech throughout: SwiftUI, FTS5 search, and an embedded SQLite Confucian database for lightning-fast location of verses, key terms, named persons and named texts.
-- Basic App & Scholar Pack In-app Purchase --
Basic App:
• Core Ancient Verses: 284 most influential
• Language: English translation only
• Search: Basic, English-only
• Encyclopedia: Ancient figures only
Scholar Pack:
• All Ancient Verses: 804 complete
• Traditional Commentary
• Language: English & Classical Chinese
• Tap Character for Literal Gloss
• Full-Verse Literal Gloss Sheets
• Sentence-Level Parsing Tool
• Search: English & Chinese
• Encyclopedia: Ancient and medieval figures
• Book 5: Explanation of Terms
• No ads, no account creation, no data collection
• Small offline app, low battery usage
Scholar Pack is a single in-app purchase that includes everything above. It has a final target price, but is currently priced lower based on the percentage completion of the translation. One-time purchase, with all future content delivered free.
-- Reach Out --
Please contact us at support@daoxue.academy, or using the in-app contact tools in settings, with questions or requests. We are committed to continual refinement and making this the optimal Confucian Classics app for both scholars and readers.
What's new (v1.6)
• Book 2, Chapter 4: Our selections include nine of the most influential verses, with new encyclopedia entries for the persons named.
• New Supplement: Read "On the Structure of the Text" to learn about the original Chinese text and how it is represented in this English replica. (More: Supplements)
• Darker Mode: Try our experimental "darker" mode and tell us what you think. (Settings: Dark Mode)
• New Supplement: Read "On the Structure of the Text" to learn about the original Chinese text and how it is represented in this English replica. (More: Supplements)
• Darker Mode: Try our experimental "darker" mode and tell us what you think. (Settings: Dark Mode)
