Classic Works

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The First Collection of Astonishing Tales cover
The First Collection of Astonishing Tales Ling Mengchu Zhonghua Book Company · 2014 The First Collection of Remarkable Tales, or Chu ke pai an jing qi, is a collection of simulated vernacular stories compiled by the Ming dynasty write…
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Rating 4.0
Restless Jia Pingwa People's Literature Publishing House · 2007 Tuzao (Restlessness) is the first novel in Jia Pingwa's Shangzhou series. Originally serialized in the first issue of Shouhuo in 1987 under the title …
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Rating 4.2
Bell and Drum Tower Liu Xinwu People's Literature Publishing House · 2005 Bell and Drum Tower is Liu Xinwu's first novel. It was initially published in issues 5 and 6 of Contemporary in 1984, and was released as a standalone…
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The Orient Wei Wei People's Literature Publishing House · 1978 The Orient is a monumental novel by Wei Wei. First published by People's Literature Publishing House in September 1978, it won the inaugural Mao Dun L…
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Selected Works of Lu Xun Lu Xun Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2025 Selected Works of Lu Xun is an anthology of representative works by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature, centered on three collections—Ca…
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Rating 4.2
Self-Reliance 拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生 China Renmin University Press · 2014 Self-Reliance is a selection of essays by the nineteenth-century American thinker and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, translated by the translator Pu Lo…
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30 Years of Fiction Monthly, Volume 6: 2005–2009 Fiction Monthly Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2010 This is the sixth volume of the six-volume series 30 Years of Fiction Monthly, edited and published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House to c…
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Rating 4.0
Professor Dai's High-Energy Tang Poetry Course 戴建业 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2022 Professor Dai's High-Energy Tang Poetry Course is a general-readership book on Tang poetry compiled by Dai Jianye, a professor at Central China Normal…
Six Dynasties Wen Jie: The Most Representative Anthology of Parallel Prose (Annotated Edition from Guoxue.com, Reviewed by Liu Shi) cover
Rating 3.6
Six Dynasties Wen Jie: The Most Representative Anthology of Parallel Prose (Annotated Edition from Guoxue.com, Reviewed by Liu Shi) 许梿 / Zhao Minli / Yin Xiaolin The Commercial Press International Co., Ltd. · 2007 Six Dynasties Wen Jie is an anthology of Six Dynasties parallel prose compiled by the Qing scholar Xu Lian. The character jie in the title is intercha…
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Classic Stories by Wang Zengqi Wang Zengqi People's Literature Publishing House · 2005 This selection of short stories by Wang Zengqi, published by People's Literature Publishing House in August 2005, draws twenty-eight representative wo…
Insights into the Human Condition (Dook Three Circles Classics Library, 28-Volume Set) cover
Rating 3.8
Insights into the Human Condition (Dook Three Circles Classics Library, 28-Volume Set) Albert Camus / Alexandre Dumas / Victor Marie Hugo / Honoré de Balzac / Leo Tolstoy / Lao She / Erich Maria Remarque / 弗兰兹·卡夫卡 / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev / Lu Xun Dook Media Group Limited · 2022 Insights into the Human Condition is a thematic set in the Dook Three Circles Classics Library, collecting 12 works in 28 volumes of foreign literary …
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Rating 4.5
Selected Poems of Su Shi Kong Fanli / Liu Shangrong Zhonghua Book Company · 2005 This book is one of Zhonghua Book Company’s “Classical Poetry Masters” series, co-selected and annotated by Su Shi specialist Kong Fanli and Zhonghua …
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Emergency Exit 顾湘 · 1999 Emergency Exit is a novel published by the writer Gu Xiang at the age of nineteen, appearing in August 1999 and, together with Click 1999 published th…
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Collected Works of Ba Jin Ba Jin People's Literature Publishing House · 1958 The Collected Works of Ba Jin is a multi-volume edition issued in installments by People's Literature Publishing House between March 1958 and August 1…
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A Century of Chinese Detective Fiction, Volume 2: Sparrow Talk Sun Liaohong / Ren Xiang Beijing Normal University Press · 2012 This is the second volume of the series A Century of Chinese Detective Fiction (1908–2011), edited by Ren Xiang. Over two years, the series editors ex…
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Rating 3.6
Thirty Years of Story Monthly, Volume 1: 1980–1984 Fiction Monthly Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2010 Story Monthly was founded in Tianjin in January 1980 on the initiative of Lin Na, then president of Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House. It was…
Selected Works of Republic of China Masters: A Collection of Famous Authors and Classics of the Republic of China Era (5-Volume Set) cover
Selected Works of Republic of China Masters: A Collection of Famous Authors and Classics of the Republic of China Era (5-Volume Set) Lin Huiyin / Xu Shoutang / Lu Xun / Cai Yuanpei Contemporary World Press · 2015 This five-volume set belongs to the Republican Era Classics·Celebrated Authors and Works series. The texts are compiled and edited from Republican-era…
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Rating 4.1
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 加·泽文 Shanghai People's Publishing House · Century Wenjing · 2023 Sam and Sadie meet at twelve in the game room of a children's hospital: one is visiting her sick sister, the other is recovering from a serious car ac…
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The Storm Shakes the Shield Hans Christian Andersen The Storm Shakes the Shield is a short fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, told in the voice of a grandfather's reminiscence. The story begins with…
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30 Years of Short Short Stories: The 120 Most Influential Contemporary Chinese Short Short Stories Yang Xiaomin Wuhan Publishing House · 2011 Edited by Yang Xiaomin and published by Wuhan Publishing House in November 2011, 30 Years of Short Short Stories: The 120 Most Influential Contemporar…