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Tingzhang Xiao Wu: A Lowly Clerk's Rise Through Officialdom
Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2026
A neo-historical novel set against the political backdrop of the final years of Emperor Wu of Han, it tells the story of a low-ranking official well v…
How the Ancients Lived
· 2026
What life was like in ancient China is a matter of individual opinion, but Shi Jiepeng, the author known as "Dawang," may have given the most down-to-…
My Heart Is Longing: Liang Huiwang's Twenty Lectures on Classical Poetry
Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025
A book of close reading and original insight into classical Chinese poetry. Four thousand years of Chinese history, three thousand years of classical …
Green Plums and Warm Wine: Talking of the Western Han and the Rule of Wen and Jing
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Heng, faced powerful ministers at court and pressure from vassal kings abroad. With exceptional political skill he consolidate…
The Chu Tomb
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
Young scholar Fang Zijiao accidentally obtains a wooden figurine unearthed from a tomb of the Warring States period. He discovers that the figurine co…
Thin Worldly Sentiments
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025
This book selects more than fifty essays and prose pieces by the author, mainly recollections of childhood. In calm strokes the author depicts the har…
Life in Ancient Times Was Not Easy
Jiuzhou Press · 2025
Spanning historical details from the pre-Qin period to the Song and Ming dynasties, this book examines ancient social systems, legal frameworks, cultu…
Red Cliffs
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025
【This book is the novelization of the film of the same name. Its author, Shi Jiepeng, was one of the screenwriters of John Woo's blockbuster Red Cliff…
Humanities of China Bestselling Collection II: 7 Books (Chinese Edition)
China Intercontinental Press · 2015
This is one of the digital collections in the "Humanities of China Series" (also known as the "New Edition Humanities of China" series) from China Int…
The Chu Tomb
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2014
Historical novels are hard because both the history and the fiction must hold up, and Shi Jiepeng happens to have the credentials for both: he was tra…
Publishers
Jiuzhou PressChina Intercontinental PressBeijing October Arts & Literature Publishing HouseBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.Shanxi People's Publishing HouseGuangdong People's Publishing HouseGuangxi Normal University PressJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House