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Red-Powdered Ladies of the Inner Chambers: Women's Lives and Literature
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2017
Writing about women in ancient China, one most easily falls into two clichés: either the "oppressed silent" or the "elegant legend of talented ladies …
The Good Bookstore
Yilin Press · 2025
This is not a how-to manual for opening a bookstore but a gentle defense of them. Jeff Deutsch, who spent a decade at the helm of the Seminary Co-op B…
Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories)
CITIC Press · 2013
Shanxi Laoxi'er is one title in the Chinese Stories series, a brand of narrative nonfiction e-books launched by CITIC Press in 2013, and is jointly wr…
Old Beijing's Zaba Di: Memory and Interpretation of Tianqiao
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2011
"Zaba di" is an old Beijing colloquialism for places like Tianqiao where people of every walk of life mingled—bustling yet chaotic. This book is a stu…
The Shenpu Series Boxed Set (Three Volumes)
Douban Read · 2014
Soushen Pu is a series published by Xi Lude (pen name Bingzhi Xuanji, also written "Bingzhi Xuanji"), a mythology researcher and writer, on the Douban…
A Complete Guide to Sinology: Common Knowledge, Classics, and Essence
China Overseas Publishing House · 2010
Compiled by the editorial board of A Complete Guide to Sinology: Common Knowledge, Classics, and Essence and published by China Overseas Publishing Ho…
Chinese Naming Culture
Foreign Languages Press · 2010
Chinese Naming Culture is one volume in the Foreign Languages Press series "Great China Through Five Thousand Years" (14 volumes in total), published …
A Seventh Man
China Academy of Art Press · 2019
A Seventh Man is an illustrated book by the British writer and art critic John Berger and the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr, first published in English…
Mocking the Pose: An Insider's Unvarnished Truth About the Fashion World
China Textile & Apparel Press · 2009
This book is a selection of fashion essays by the fashion-media figure Wang Xin. Writing under the pen name "Anti-Underpants Front," he published fash…
Beyond Cultural Differences: Cases and Discussions in Intercultural Communication
Zhejiang University Press · 2020
This book is an intercultural communication textbook written by Professor Pan Yihe of Zhejiang University for university general education courses. It…
Tea Trails
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2012
A Japanese writer, using Chinese historical sources and Chinese landscapes, has produced a book about tea. Chen Shunchen's uniqueness lies in being bo…
The Humble Condom: A History of the Condom's Evolution
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013
From ancient Egyptian papyrus and animal gut to the "gloves" sewn from fish bladders and sheep cecum in the Middle Ages, from Goodyear's vulcanized ru…
Chinese Surnames
Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2025
Chinese Surnames is a popular book on surname culture by Zheng Zining, an author who writes about linguistics for general readers. Centered on ten the…
A History of Japanese Adult Video
New Star Press · 2013
This book is the Chinese translation of Adult Video Revolution: A History (Gentosha Shinsho, 2009) by the Japanese freelance writer Fujiki TDC. The au…
Journey of Life
China Intercontinental Press · 2024
This book is one title in the "Journey Through China" series from China Intercontinental Press, introducing the customs and refinements of everyday Ch…
Five Chapters on Sexology (Expanded Edition)
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019
Five Chapters on Sexology (Expanded Edition) is a collection of essays on the history of sexual culture by Jiang Xiaoyuan, a chair professor at Shangh…
Why Do Japanese No Longer Get Tricked by Foxes?
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024
In the past, almost anywhere foxes lived in Japan, stories of "foxes tricking people" circulated: people walking at night were toyed with by foxes, a …
Seasonal Deities: An Illustrated Compendium of Chinese Gods
CITIC Press · 2024
"Virtue stands three feet above the head"—this old Chinese saying reflects a plain understanding of cosmic order. Through the turning of the four seas…
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
The Commercial Press · 2012
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a research report commissioned by the U.S. government and completed by the American cultural anthropologist Ruth Be…
CITIC Press Best Books of 2020: Humanities and Social Sciences (10-Volume Set)
CITIC Press · 2020
This collection gathers CITIC Press Group's best books of 2020 in the humanities and social sciences, comprising ten works spanning human history, med…