Nostalgia

70 books

When Poetry Forgets Us cover
Rating 3.4
When Poetry Forgets Us Liu Liangcheng Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 When Poetry Forgets Us is a selected poetry collection by writer Liu Liangcheng, gathering eighty-eight pastoral poems written over three decades. It …
The Peach Blossom Well cover
Rating 4.3
The Peach Blossom Well Jiang Xiaoyun New Star Press · 2014 The Peach Blossom Well is the first novel by Taiwanese writer Chiang Hsiao-yun after a thirty-year silence. The book comprises several chapters that a…
Warm Food: Rustic Flavours, the Taste of Home cover
Rating 3.6
Warm Food: Rustic Flavours, the Taste of Home Chua Lam China Overseas Publishing House · 2013 Warm Food: Rustic Flavours, the Taste of Home is one volume in Chua Lam's Chua Lam on Food series. It is divided into five parts, A Life of Staple Foo…
Endless Wandering: An Old Soldier's Account of My Forty Years in Taiwan cover
Endless Wandering: An Old Soldier's Account of My Forty Years in Taiwan Yu Xiu China Friendship Publishing Company · 2012 In 1949, nearly two million people moved to Taiwan with the Nationalists, about half of them Nationalist soldiers with almost no choice in the matter.…
A Bite of China: The Complete Guide to Cooking Timeless Flavors, Volume 1 cover
A Bite of China: The Complete Guide to Cooking Timeless Flavors, Volume 1 本书编写组 Guangming Daily Press · 2012 This book is the companion cookbook to the CCTV documentary A Bite of China and the first volume of the Complete Guide to Cooking Timeless Flavors ser…
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Flavors of Sichuan 2 Zeng Ying Cultural Development Press Co. Ltd. · 2023 Flavors of Sichuan 2 is writer Zeng Ying's second collection of food stories, following Flavors of Sichuan, and another "writing the human world throu…
Sichuan Flavors, Human Stories cover
Rating 3.5
Sichuan Flavors, Human Stories Zeng Ying Cultural Development Press Co. Ltd. · 2020 Sichuan Flavors, Human Stories is a collection of food-themed essays by the writer Zeng Ying, published by Cultural Development Press in 2020. Zeng Yi…
The Innocent Heart: Selected Essays of Yu Kwang-chung cover
Rating 4.5
The Innocent Heart: Selected Essays of Yu Kwang-chung Yu Guangzhong Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 The Innocent Heart is a selection of essays by Yu Kwang-chung, published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in November 2020 under licens…
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East Anthony Shadid CITIC Press · 2019 House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East is a memoir by the Lebanese-American journalist Anthony Shadid. In 2006, during the w…
Taste on the Street, Cook at Home: The Complete Guide to Recreating Street Snacks (A Map of Chinese Street Food: Hometown Flavors That Make You Want to Cry) cover
Taste on the Street, Cook at Home: The Complete Guide to Recreating Street Snacks (A Map of Chinese Street Food: Hometown Flavors That Make You Want to Cry) 国明 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2014 This is a home cookbook that treats "snacks" as a form of homesickness. The author, Guoming (known to readers as "Sister Guoming"), begins with the ca…
Distant Homeland: The Chiangs, Father and Son, and Their People in Taiwan cover
Rating 4.2
Distant Homeland: The Chiangs, Father and Son, and Their People in Taiwan Phoenix TV Publishing Center Chongqing Publishing House · 2011 In 1945, with the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Taiwan returned to China after fifty years of Japanese colonial rule. Four years lat…
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Nostalgia Beyond the Horizon 苏菲 China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House · 2014 Beyond the Sky is the first collection of essays by the Chinese-American writer Su Fei (born Wang Hongmei). Published in December 2014 by China Federa…
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Peach Blossom Well Jiang Xiaoyun New Star Press · 2014 Peach Blossom Well is the first novel Jiang Xiaoyun wrote upon returning to literature after thirty years of silence, a work she calls "one that made …
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Outside the East City Xie Xinyuan People's Literature Publishing House · 2021 Outside the East City is an essay collection by Xie Xinyuan, published by People's Literature Publishing House in June 2021. Taking the author's homet…
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Rating 3.3
Hao Ma Hao De Da Bing (Yan Bing) Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Hao Ma Hao De is Da Bing's third collection of jianghu stories, following Guai, Momo Tou and Emituofo Momo Da, published by Hunan Literature and Art P…
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The Taste of a Warm Soul Zhang Jiawei / 苏美 / Yuan Jin / 小岩井 / 马德 / 陈果 / Ai Xiaoma / 林东林 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014 The Taste of a Warm Soul is a food-themed essay collection in the Slow Time Series, co-written by twenty-six Douban authors including Zhang Jiawei, Su…
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Vanishing Landscapes Mei Jie Hubei People's Publishing House · 2015 Vanishing Landscapes is a collection of essays by Hubei-born writer Mei Jie, published in the "Selected Works of Mei Jie" series. The book follows a w…
The Secret of the Undertaker: The Selected Short Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 3 cover
The Secret of the Undertaker: The Selected Short Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 3 Ray Bradbury New Star Press · 2016 The Secret of the Undertaker is the third volume of "The Selected Short Stories of Ray Bradbury," and the most thematically varied and atmospherically…
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Rating 4.3
Underground Nostalgia Blues 马世芳 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2007 Underground Nostalgia Blues is the first collection of essays by the Taiwanese writer and radio host Ma Shifang. The title is borrowed from a famous B…
Zhang Xiaofeng's Warmth Trilogy (Three Volumes) cover
Zhang Xiaofeng's Warmth Trilogy (Three Volumes) Zhang Xiaofeng Flower City Publishing House · 2015 Zhang Xiaofeng's Warmth Trilogy (Three Volumes) was published by Huacheng Publishing House in 2015 and collects three essay collections by the Taiwane…