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Reading Guide to the Mirror Series (001–015)
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2015
Reading Guide to the Mirror Series (001–015) is a companion collection of introductory essays for the "Mirror" (Lixiangguo Translation Series), co-wri…
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…
Excellent Sheep
CITIC Press · 2025
Excellent Sheep is the American scholar William Deresiewicz's celebrated critique of education, growing out of his years teaching at Yale and the sens…
The World Is Not Flat: Geography and Human Destiny
民主与建设出版社 · 2025
Entering the twenty-first century, the world's mobility, interconnectedness, and integration have increased markedly, and "the world is flat" has beco…
The Quality Learning Bundle: New Knowledge Library Ebook Collection (4,000 Volumes)
SDX Joint Publishing Company
This is an ebook collection built primarily around the New Knowledge Library (Xinzhi Wenku) series from SDX Joint Publishing Company. At roughly 24.3 …
The News: A User's Manual
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021
The News: A User's Manual is a nonfiction book by British author Alain de Botton on the news media, originally published under that title. De Botton a…
Fighting Air Disease (China Story)
CITIC Press · 2013
On October 17, 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization, announced that outdoor air polluti…
The Invisible Middle East: A Journey into Everyday Life
民主与建设出版社 · 2024
The Invisible Middle East is a book-length work of documentary travel writing by journalist and photographer Yao Lu, subtitled "A Journey into Everyda…
I Am a Prosecutor: A Special Contributor to Zhihu Logos
Zhihu · 2015
This is an e-book in Zhihu's "Salt" series, written by Luogesi, a Zhihu author on legal topics. Luogesi graduated from Southwest University of Politic…
Hospital Ukiyo-e: Selected Writings of Zhihu's Curry Chicken
Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2015
This is volume 46 of Zhihu's "Salt" series and a self-selected collection of articles by Curry Chicken, a cardiac surgeon and a top contributor on Zhi…