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This book is a selection of important original papers concerning the Goldbach conjecture. Original papers written in other languages are translated into English by the author, except one paper translated by K.-R. Yu. As is mentioned in the review for the previous edition of this book (1984; Zbl 0534.10001), this book is a valuable anthology in this research area. In this second edition, two papers are added to the first edition. One of them is A. Selberg's paper on the sum of two almost primes, and the other is the recent survey article by \textit{J.-M. Deshouillers, G. Effinger, H. te Riele} and \textit{D. Zinoviev} [Electron. Res. Announc. Am. Math. Soc. 3, 99--104 (1997; Zbl 0892.11032)] on their proof that if the generalized Riemann hypothesis is true, then every odd integer greater than 5 is a sum of three primes. This new edition of the book consists of 21 papers (a few papers are partially omitted with explicit indication). Six of them relate to the sum of three primes, including part III of ``partitio numerorum'' series of G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood, and I. M. Vinogradov's original proof for his three prime theorem. The other fifteen papers are concerned with research on the binary Goldbach problem via sieve methods, including the pioneering work of V. Brun, and \textit{J.-R. Chen}'s original proof for his famous theorem on the sum of a prime and a product of at most two primes [Sci. Sin. 16, 157--176 (1973; Zbl 0319.10056); ibid. 21, 421--430 (1978; Zbl 0382.10033)]. Besides the names mentioned above, this book contains important papers by the following mathematicians: M. B. Barban, E. Bombieri, A. A. Buchstab, P. Kuhn, Yu. V. Linnik, Chengbiao Pan, Chengdong Pan, A. Rényi, R. C. Vaughan, A. I. Vinogradov, and Yuan Wang (the author).