Contemporary China

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Collected Works of Na Duo (10 Volumes) cover
Collected Works of Na Duo (10 Volumes) Na Duo Na Duo is a popular novelist from Shanghai who worked early on as a civil servant and a journalist and began publishing around 2000; his best-known wo…
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My Fair Princess (Part One) Qiong Yao Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 During one of Emperor Qianlong's southern tours, he had a brief dalliance with Xia Yuhe by Daming Lake in Jinan, and she later gave birth to a daughte…
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Bairam Guesthouse 宋晓俐 Taihai Publishing House · 2017 Bairam Guesthouse is the second novel in Shanxi writer Song Xiaoli's "Tibet Trilogy," published by Taihai Publishing House in January 2017. The story …
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Southward, Northward Mei Shiniang CITIC Press · 2023 A story of the previous generation written by an author born in 1998, and unexpectedly composed and restrained. Mei Shiniang began at nineteen, basing…
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Rating 4.2
Westward to the Western Heaven 顾湘 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Westward to the Western Heaven is a novel Gu Xiang wrote at nineteen. First serialized on internet forums in the last century, it was later paired wit…
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Ai Lai Essays: Complete in Five Volumes Alai Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2018 The Collected Essays of Ai Lai is a five-volume anthology first released in November 2018 at the "Borderland Writing, Natural History, and Epic: An In…
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Rating 3.7
Jiazi 3: China's 60-Year Record of People's Livelihood 陈晓卿 / Zhu Lexian CITIC Press · 2013 Jiazi 3: China's 60-Year Record of People's Livelihood is the third volume in the "Jiazi" book series, compiled and adapted into book form by Chen Xia…
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The Collected Essays of Ma Yan Ma Yan New Star Press · 2012 The Collected Essays of Ma Yan is a selection of essays by the poet and essayist Ma Yan (1979–2010) from her brief life, edited by Qin Xiaoyu and publ…
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The Legend of Mian, Book 1: Wind Rises at Jingzhe Erdong Shuishou Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2018 The Legend of Mian is a prequel to Er Dong Shuishou's online novel series The Bizarre Records of the Civil Affairs Investigation Bureau. The print edi…
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Plain Water and Greens Pan Xiangli Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 White Water Greens is a selection of short fiction by the writer Pan Xiangli, published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in September 2…
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Rating 4.4
Rebirth: The Official Path and the Business Road Geng Su Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2011 This is a long urban novel of officialdom and business by the web novelist Geng Su, published in print volumes by Wenhui Press starting in 2011; this …
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Desert Trilogy: The Desert Rites + The Hunting Grounds + White Tiger Pass Xue Mo Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2013 The Desert Trilogy is a long-form series by the writer Xuemo created over more than twenty years, consisting of The Desert Rites, The Hunting Grounds,…
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Rating 3.8
Ode to Joy Ane Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Ode to Joy is an urban novel by A Nai about five urban women of vastly different backgrounds and temperaments who move one after another into the 22nd…
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Rating 4.1
The Message Mai Jia Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Message is the concluding work of Mai Jia's "Decryption Trilogy," and the story begins by West Lake in Hangzhou in the spring and summer of 1941. …
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Selected Essays of Wang Zengqi Wang Zengqi People's Literature Publishing House · 2022 Selected Essays of Wang Zengqi is a volume in the People's Literature Publishing House series "Treasury of Essays by Modern and Contemporary Chinese M…
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The Sword of Wisdom and the Demon of the Heart (3 Volumes) Liang Yusheng Guangdong Tourism Publishing House · 1996 The Sword of Wisdom and the Demon of the Heart is the final chapter of Liang Yusheng's "Tang Dynasty series" (also known as the "Tang Trilogy"). It fo…
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Rating 4.0
Supernova Era Liu Cixin Chongqing Publishing House · 2016 Supernova Era is Liu Cixin's first novel: first published by Writers Publishing House in 2003, and the Chongqing Publishing House 2016 collector's edi…
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The Complete Ghost Blows Out the Light Tianxia Bachang Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 The Complete Ghost Blows Out the Light is an eight-volume collection of the novel series by Tianxia Bachang (real name Zhang Muye), comprising the fir…
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The Beijing Godfather Wang Shan CHINA CITY PRESS · 2012 In 1967, after his father commits suicide amid internal factional struggle and his mother is placed under supervision, seventeen-year-old Chen Cheng s…
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Watching Over Manhattan Chi Bing China Youth Press · 2009 Watching Over Manhattan is the debut novel of the writer Chi Bing, published by China Youth Press in November 2009 and about 220,000 Chinese character…