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My Years as a Psychiatrist in America
China Renmin University Press · 2023
This book is a work of documentary nonfiction by the Chinese American psychiatrist Yang Yide (real name Yang Jun). A native of Wuhu, Anhui, the author…
Desert Trilogy (Desert Rites, Hunting Grounds, White Tiger Pass)
Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2013
The Desert Trilogy is a series of novels written by Xue Mo over more than twenty years, consisting of Desert Rites, Hunting Grounds, and White Tiger P…
25: A Blood-and-Tears Chronicle of Working in Japan
Feifan Publishing · 2016
25: A Blood-and-Tears Chronicle of Working in Japan is a long work of reportage by the Hong Kong author Ah Wing. She studied Japanese at university an…
Secondhand Time
CITIC Press · 2016
Secondhand Time is one of the representative works of the 2015 Nobel laureate in literature, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich. The Chinese ed…
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
CITIC Press · 2013
A Fort of Nine Towers is a family memoir written in English by the Afghan author Qais Akbar Omar. The Chinese simplified edition was translated by Wan…
Bad Blood
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
This is not a business legend written from imagination, but an account delivered by an investigative reporter after years of dealing with whistleblowe…
Snow Cold, Blood Hot
Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2011
This is a book written on foot. To reconstruct fourteen years of resistance in Northeast China, Zhang Zhenglong spent about twenty years, from first i…
Bloodthirsty Pharma
CITIC Press · 2024
"In America, pain is a business you can get rich on." This sets the tone from the opening of Bloodthirsty Pharma. In this work of nonfiction, American…
The War on the Eastern Front: A 1915 Journey Through the Balkans
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
In 1915, the second year of World War I, American journalist John Silas Reed and his companion Robinson set off for the Eastern Front, hoping to witne…
A Lawyer's Black-and-White Life: Never Compromise
Writers Publishing House · 2010
The Lawyer’s Black-and-White Life: Never Compromise is a novel by Han Qizhao, published by Writers Publishing House in 2010. The story centers on Chen…
His Own People
· 1907
His Own People is a novella by the American writer Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), published in October 1907; it was the eighth book and fourth novella …
M Translation Series Boxed Set 02: The File: A Personal History of East Europe, the Secret Police, and Hope (3 Volumes)
Nanjing University Press, Guangxi Normal University Press · 2019
This is the second thematic boxed set in the Imaginist Translation Series (M Series), gathering three works of reportage that use "the file" as their …
Five Thousand Years Across Peru
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024
Peru is a country that defies a single label: in the same city square stand statues of a genocidal colonizer and of the liberator who drove national i…
The World's Four Great Intelligence Organizations Series (4 Volumes)
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2017
The World's Four Great Intelligence Organizations Series is a four-volume set of contemporary Chinese narrative nonfiction published by Northern Liter…
Pilgrimage: A 1,200-Kilometer Walk Around Shikoku
CITIC Press · 2017
The "Shikoku Pilgrimage" is a pilgrimage route that has continued for about 1,200 years, circling Japan's Shikoku Island and connecting eighty-eight t…
The Irishman
People's Literature Publishing House · 2020
The Irishman is a work of true-crime reporting by former U.S. prosecutor Charles Brandt, who spent five years interviewing and writing about its subje…
The Minds of Billy Milligan
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press · 2015
In 1977, a series of rapes occurred in Ohio, and police arrested the suspect, Billy Milligan, who had no memory of the crimes he was accused of. Inves…
Amitabha Mwah
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015
Amitabha Mwah is a collection of short stories by Da Bing, following his earlier book Be Good, Pat Pat. Published in 2015 by Hunan Literature and Art …
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: A Race Against Time
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
On the western edge of the Sahara Desert, in the middle of Mali, West Africa, lies the ancient city of Timbuktu. It was once a famous center of learni…
Is Paris Burning?
Yilin Press · 2013
"Is Paris burning?" On August 25, 1944, the day Paris was liberated, Hitler demanded of his chief of staff in the Wolf's Lair bunker in East Prussia. …