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Collected Poems of Zhuoyi
Qidian · 2024
It suits readers who like poetry and prose and traditional culture and are willing to read slowly and savor philosophy. Its highlights are the dialect…
Youth Fantasy Collection
A short prose and poetry collection about university years, centering on self-reflection, emotion, confusion, and growth in a quiet, reflective tone.
First Hearing the Morning Rain
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2001
First Hearing the Morning Rain is one of the Contemporary Student Reading Classics series from Wenhui Publishing House, with pieces selected and a pre…
Facing the Sun
17K Novel Network
Facing the Sun is a work that records youth and the narrow years of young adulthood in fragmentary strokes. The book revolves around the author's life…
The Red Bed
Chongqing Publishing House
This book is a selected collection of short stories by Xu Kaizhen, comprising thirteen pieces including 'Mr. Yao,' 'Chaos of War,' 'The Red Bed,' 'A S…
A Bitter Journey Through Culture
Through physical travel, the author visits neglected cultural sites across Chinese civilization—from the chastity arches and the Taoist's Pagoda in hi…
I Am a Grain of Sand
This is a personal collection consisting mainly of prose poetry and classical-style verse. In the opening, the author describes himself as sentimental…
The Travels of Xu Xiake
The Travels of Xu Xiake is a diary-form travelogue compiled by Xu Xiake of the Ming Dynasty over more than thirty years of field exploration, recordin…
Flowers in Full Bloom, Rich in Fragrance
Siyuetian Fiction Network
This book is a collection of essays on classic television dramas. The author begins with the 1983 TV adaptation of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, tr…
The Bitterness of Mediocrity
QQ Reading · 2021
This book is a collection of short personal essays written by the author during a stay in Egypt. It opens with a dream: the author and his eldest brot…
The Growth Story of 93
Zongheng Chinese Network
The book is more like a private growth journal, and its value lies in its honesty: class representative duties, arcades, borrowed books, little notes—…
Camellia-Colored Seasons of Bloom
QQ Reading
This is a collection of ten short prose pieces, including "My Longing Is a Song," "My Yearning Is a Leaping Light, Awakened by Fate," "In the Next Lif…
A Sad Quotation Collection
Zongheng Chinese Network · 2020
This is a personal collection mainly of melancholy quotations and emotional essays. The book strings together short sentences, vignettes, and narrativ…
Notes of Young Master Wenlan
This book is not a novel but a collection of miscellaneous writings compiled by the author, Wenlan Gongzi. The author began writing as a hobby at the …
Women of the Three Kingdoms
17K Novel Network · 2020
This book adopts the perspective of women marginalized by war and patriarchal narratives during the Three Kingdoms period. Drawing on textual research…
One Person's Ordinary Life
17K Novel Network
This book records the daily life of an ordinary female college student in diary form. From the spring of 2020 to the spring of 2021, the author writes…
Unbridled Imagination
For readers who enjoy wildly imaginative short fiction, the bizarre, and folk legends. The appeal lies in the wide thematic range between pieces: the …
Heart Mowed
Yunqi Academy
This is an intensely private diary-style essay collection whose value lies in its honesty: exam prep, pregnancy planning, in-law relations, marriage, …
Fox Lament: Only Those Who Know Me Know My Sorrow
Written as a first-person collection of essays, the book takes its title from “fox,” the author’s nickname in student days, and the “lament” of Qu Yua…
Half a Step of Spring Warmth, One Step of Blooming Flowers
This book is a prose-poem novel built on a classical literary sensibility. Centered on the narrator's perceptions and without a traditional plotline, …