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Cold by Nature, That Am I
This book is a short collection of scattered poems and essays. The author speaks in first person: "Cold by nature, that am I; with others I have nothi…
Dreams Broken, Chasing Fireflies
Yunqi Academy
This is a collection of personal essays and prose poetry composed of dozens of short pieces. It opens with selections such as "Wordless," "To Meet Is …
Poetry and Faraway Places, Here in This World
The book consists of short line-broken texts. It opens with "A Walk in the Rain," in which the protagonist likens herself to a gust of wind that keeps…
Miscellaneous Notes of the Bingshen Year
Qidian · 2016
Miscellaneous Notes of the Bingshen Year is a diary-style collection of life essays by the author Yao Nie, recording daily life from the first month t…
Chronicles of the Feeling Boat
Chronicles of the Feeling Boat takes the author's pen name "Who Sinks the Boat" as its entry point, gathering poems and miscellaneous prose written ou…
A Collection of Chinese Short Love Stories
This is a love-themed collection made up of several independent short stories. The author uses concise strokes to depict missed connections and regret…
The Most Beautiful Poems
A collection of poems and essays by Meng Taiqi, gathering lyrical short poems and life sketches such as First Meeting, Stargazing at Midnight, Lament …
Early Sleep Diary
Qidian · 2020
Early to Bed Diary unfolds in first-person diary form. The protagonist, unable to sleep after AH, the girl he likes, suddenly grows distant, takes up …
Idle Talk from the Jade Hall
This book suits readers who love rural essays and want to understand the social mood of the 1990s. The draw is Liu Yutang bringing Yimeng-style humor …
Cat Cat's Short Works Collection
Qidian
Suitable for those who enjoy the author's chatty essays and are interested in the web-fiction world and behind-the-scenes writing. Highlights include …
My Jokes Have Stories
Billed as fantasy and magic, this is in fact more of an essay collection by the author Liu Xiaren: starting from Chapter 0, "I Just Wanted to Talk Abo…
The Mushroom Circle
Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015
The novel follows the life of the Tibetan woman Sijiong, beginning in the village of Jicun around 1955. Once chosen for a school for ethnic cadres, sh…
Habit Is Not Love
This book unfolds in the form of first-person essays, centered on the theme that habit is not love. It opens with reflections on life, exploring the d…
We'll Meet Again in the Next Life
Chuangshi Chinese Network
The novel follows the growth of a boy named Ye Zi: born in a poor village, he experiences his parents' divorce in childhood and moves to the city to s…
There Is Always a Kind of Stillness That Lets You Hear Life Bloom
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2013
This is a collection of stillness-of-mind essays for general readers, linking life observations and reflections through short chapters plus “@Stillnes…
The Past You Can't Throw Away
Huayu Women's Network
This is a collection of short prose essays by Ju Miao, drawn from the author's own diaries and memories and centered on the theme of being unable to l…
Love and Emotion Adrift
This book takes the drifting of love and emotion as its main thread. It opens with a suite of lyric poems titled "We," moving from "Love You" to "Love…
Impressions of Yichang
This book is a collection of essays and reflections by the author on Yichang, Hubei. The first part traces the city's layout and its history as a trea…
Collected Works of Xu Dishan
Qidian · 2018
The Collected Works of Xu Dishan brings together his fiction, prose, and poetry, including such representative pieces as The Fateful Bird, The Merchan…
I Like Quiet, I Only Want Simplicity
This is a collection of essays written in the first person. Beginning with her initial impulse to write, the author records her preference for a quiet…