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The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong
SinoMaps Press (China Cartographic Publishing House) · 2019
The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong is the first volume of historian Gao Wangling's "Qianlong Trilogy," focusing on the first thirteen years of the Qianlo…
The Fall of Chu: From Xiang Yu to Han Xin
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2015
From Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising in 209 BC to Liu Bang's proclamation as emperor in 202 BC, eight short years saw Qin fall, Chu perish, and Han…
The Great Ritual Controversy: Emperor Jiajing's Ritual Reform and the Reshaping of Imperial Power
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
In the sixteenth year of the Zhengde reign (1521), Emperor Wuzong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao, died without an heir, leaving the throne vacant. Grand Secreta…
Romance of the Northern and Southern Dynasties
Zhonghua Book Company · 2015
Romance of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is the fourth installment in Republican-era historian Cai Dongfan's Popular Romances of Successive Dyna…
The Winter of the Empire: Silver, Queues, and Face
China Pictorial Publishing House · 2017
This is the first volume in Dongxue Xinjing's (real name Li Heng) series on late Qing history. Taking the near-century from the Daoguang Emperor's acc…
The First-Class Person: Rise and Fall of a Jiangnan Family
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018
This is a work of narrative nonfiction that took Song Huali five years to write. It was one of the top ten finalists for the inaugural Wenjing History…
Where Is "Jiangnan"? The Establishment of Qing Orthodoxy and the Transformation of the Literati's Spiritual World (Expanded Edition)
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2017
In this book, "Jiangnan" is both a geographical concept and, more importantly, a cultural metaphor: it refers to the prosperous region of Suzhou, Song…
Beijing 1643: A Zhihu Work by Xu Xiaoteng
Zhejiang Publishing United Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2016
Beijing 1643 is the eighth title (HOUR:008) in Zhihu's "One Hour" series of e-books, written by Xu Xiaoteng. The book is set in Beijing in the final y…
Half-Hour Comic: Chinese History + World History
江苏凤凰文艺出版社、海南出版社 · 2018
This set combines two popular-history comics, Half-Hour Comic: Chinese History and Half-Hour Comic: World History. The first follows a chronological t…
A Brief History of Tang Dynasty Society
Beijing Publishing House · 2017
This book is the representative work of the modern Chinese historian Huang Xianfan. It was first published in 1936 by the Shanghai Commercial Press as…
Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 5
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2020
Half-Hour Comics: A History of China 5 is a comic history book created by the Half-Hour Comics team led by Chen Lei (pen name Er Hunzi, or "Bumbling G…
Half-Hour Comic History of China 3
Hainan Publishing House · 2018
Half-Hour Comic History of China 3 is the third volume in Chen Lei's (pen name "Er Hunzi") Half-Hour Comic History of China series, published by Haina…
From Disease to the Human Heart: Revisiting the Social History of Medicine in Medieval China
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
This book is a research monograph by Yu Gengzhe, professor at the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, on the social histo…
Khubilai Khan's Challenge: The Mongol Empire and the Great Turning Point in World History
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2017
In 1259, the Mongol Great Khan Möngke died suddenly at the front lines of the conquest of the Southern Song. His younger brother Khubilai thus gained …
Three Kingdoms History Talks
Beijing Publishing House · 2016
Three Kingdoms History Talks is a popular work of history written by the great historian Lü Simian, intended, in his words, "either to correct past er…
The Ganlu Incident: The Emperor's Power That Could Not Be Reclaimed
Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2025
In the ninth year of the Taihe era under Emperor Wenzong of Tang (835), a palace operation aimed at eliminating the eunuchs and restoring imperial aut…
Shu Bi
Wenjin Publishing House · 2020
Shu Bi is an annalistic miscellaneous history in four volumes by Peng Zunsi, a native of Danling, Sichuan, in the Qing dynasty. Widely circulated beca…
The True Emperor of the Great Song: Zhao Kuangyin, the Benevolent Ruler
Peking University Press · 2016
This book centers on Zhao Kuangyin, Emperor Taizu of Song, tracing his life from beginning to end. It opens against the chaos of the Five Dynasties: d…
Empress Wu Gone Wild: The Complete Scandalous High Tang
Jilin Literature and History Publishing House · 2014
This book is a collected edition of Zong Chenghao's Empress Wu-themed works in the "Scandalous High Tang" series. It begins with a talented lady in Em…
Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County
China Renmin University Press · 2014
This book is one of the representative works of the American sinologist William T. Rowe; the Chinese edition is included in the "Overseas Chinese Stud…