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Marginalia by the Bookshelf: A Bustle, a Chill
Hubei Jin Gu Chuan Qi Media Group · 2016
Marginalia by the Bookshelf: A Bustle, a Chill
The Disenchantment of the Song Dynasty
Sichuan People's Publishing House · 2025
The Disenchantment of the Song Dynasty is a collection of Song history studies by Wu Zhengqiang, professor at the School of History of Zhejiang Univer…
Discovering China Through Archaeology
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
Discovering China Through Archaeology is the first collection of archaeology- and history-themed book reviews by Zhang Jingwei, a curator at the Shang…
Ants with Time Stolen
Beijing Normal University Press · 2019
Ants with Time Stolen is a collection of literary criticism by the writer Zhao Song, published in June 2019 by Beijing Normal University Press in the …
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life
CITIC Press · 2025
Nagel is one of the most important philosophers of our time, and his essay on consciousness, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", is virtually required rea…
Reading (Monthly), No. 6, 2025
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
Published by SDX Joint Publishing Company, Reading is a monthly journal of intellectual and cultural criticism centered on books but not confined to t…
A Cloak of Misty Rain
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
A Mist of Rain is a plain and unassuming collection of essays in four sections. The first, "Flowers of the Years," recounts in detail the warmth and r…
Literary Tavern: Reading Saramago Is Seeing the World Again
Dook Media Group Limited · 2023
Literary Tavern is a reading-guide series for Dook's Color Stripe Foreign Literature Library, where you can read author interviews, literary dialogues…
Some Are Colorful, Some Are Silent
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
This book is a personal history of reading and a collection of high-quality book reviews, gathering the finest essays the author wrote over the years …
People Who Read
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
Reading People is the latest collection by Wei Xiaohe, a young book critic born in the 1990s, and also a journey that follows books. The book is divid…
Prism
华语出版社 · 2024
This book is a collection of literary reviews and creative writing by several students from the Hangzhou Foreign Languages School, comprising two sect…
Reading for You
The Commercial Press · 2023
This book recounts the reading, reviewing, and writing journey of the renowned bibliophile and book critic Professor Jiang Xiaoyuan. It collects 33 of…
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Shidai Literature Publishing House · 2023
The essays collected here are grounded in the literary publishing scene. They offer original readings of major literary works (such as Liang Xiaosheng…
Miscellaneous Records from Hulan Pavilion (Phoenix Branch Collection)
Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2023
A collection of review essays and occasional pieces by the young historian You Ziyong, Hulanzuan Miscellany is divided into four sections—New Light on…
Books and People
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
This is a book about books. It gathers the author's writings on books over the years, of varying length and in varying genres: personal reflections on…
Creative Work and Criticism Need Positive Interaction
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020
This collection brings together book reviews the author has published in various journals over the past three years, arranged in five sections—Poetry …
Discovering China Through Archaeology
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2020
This book is anthropologist Zhang Jingwei's first collection of reviews on archaeology and history, organized into five sections: "Archaeology," "Chin…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Three-Volume Boxed Set)
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020
Orwell is widely regarded as one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century, renowned for battling the preju…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 3)
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020
Orwell is widely regarded as one of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century. With remarkable energy and unco…
The Complete Book Reviews of Orwell (Volume 2)
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020
One of the most thought-provoking and vividly written essayists of the twentieth century, Orwell is famed for his prodigious energy and uncompromising…