Literary Appreciation

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Women of the Three Kingdoms Sanguo Nüren 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…
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Zhou Zongcheng Decodes Dream of the Red Chamber Zhou Zongcheng This book presents Zhou Zongcheng's research findings on Dream of the Red Chamber. Running to roughly 300,000 Chinese characters, it has been serializ…
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Discussing the Past and Present, Talking of the World Dali265 This book interprets ancient texts and literary and artistic works through a philosophical lens. It opens with "Guiguzi: Reaction, Part Two," explaini…
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Cang's Whispers Cang Yiwei Qidian Cang's Whispers is a collection of web-fiction reviews serialized by Cang Yiwei on Qidian. It opens with an original theory, "The Nine Gates of Web Fi…
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The Novel Lesson Bi Feiyu People's Literature Publishing House · 2017 This book collects Bi Feiyu's lecture manuscripts on fiction delivered at Nanjing University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang Univers…
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Recommended Healing Essays Shu Wu This is a collection of essays centered on reading and healing. Writing in the first person, the author shares reflections on books ranging from Somew…
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Kangxi Emperor: Auspicious Realm Ling Jiefang Henan People's Publishing House · 1989 Kangxi Emperor: Auspicious Realm is the third volume of Er Yuehe's long historical novel Kangxi Emperor. Following the suppression of the Three Feudat…
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Collection of Prefaces and Postscripts to Translations Lu Xun People's Literature Publishing House · 1981 This volume collects some one hundred twenty prefaces, postscripts, miscellaneous notes, appendices, and newspaper "translator's afterwords" that Lu X…
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Creation Novel Source Material Nong Er Dai 3Q Reading Network This is a reference-style web worldbuilding collection, suited to people who like studying cultivation systems or who need to build their own settings…
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Rating 4.3
A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature (Revised Edition) Hong Zicheng Peking University Press · 2007 This textbook by Professor Hong Zicheng was written for courses on the history of contemporary Chinese literature, tracing the emergence and evolution…
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Rating 3.9
A Life of Poetry and Books: Essays by Gu Sui 顾随 Peking University Press · 2008 This book is a selection of essays by Gu Sui (1897–1960, courtesy name Xianji, alternate sobriquet Kushui, later sobriquet Tuoan), a scholar of classi…
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Weaving Thoughts into Brocade: Essays on Poetics and Style 江弱水 Peking University Press · 2010 Weaving Thoughts into Brocade: Essays on Poetics and Style is a collection of Jiang Ruoshui's essays on poetics and criticism, published by Peking Uni…
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A Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World Luo Yuming Fudan University Press · 2016 This book is the fruit of years of teaching A New Account of Tales of the World by Luo Yuming, professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Lit…
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Rating 4.2
The Road of Clouds Ge Fei Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2025 This is a book that does not urge you to "get on the road quickly"; it first makes you stop and see clearly what we are actually talking about when we…
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Rating 4.0
The Complete Collected Miscellanies on Du Fu's Poetry 曹慕樊 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2019 The Complete Collected Miscellanies on Du Fu's Poetry is a hardcover omnibus of two works by the renowned Du Fu scholar Cao Mufan (1912–1993), Miscell…
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Rating 3.8
A Study of Tao Yuanming Xiao Wangqing Beijing Publishing House · 2016 A Study of Tao Yuanming is scholar Xiao Wangqing's representative work applying modern literary-critical concepts to the study of Tao Yuanming. The bo…
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Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson This book is a critical introduction written by Hiram Corson, professor of rhetoric and English literature at Cornell University, to guide readers thr…
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The Passing of Brilliance Bao Pengshan China Youth Press · 2019 The Passing of Brilliance is a collection of essays on intellectual history that the scholar Bao Pengshan spent more than a decade writing. It began a…
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Rating 3.1
Poets of the Great Tang 白落梅 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Poets of the Great Tang is a literary biography of Tang dynasty poets by the writer Bai Luomei, published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House…
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Rating 4.0
A Fiction Writing Course: The Complete Guide to Rapid Mastery of Fiction Writing Jerry Cleaver China Renmin University Press · 2011 A Fiction Writing Course: The Complete Guide to Rapid Mastery of Fiction Writing is a fiction-writing guide by the American writing teacher Jerry Clea…