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That Old Book List
Zhejiang University Press · 2014
That Old Book List is a collection of bibliophilic essays by the publisher Yu Xiaoqun, most of them written between 2012 and the first half of 2014. W…
Reading Ruined Me
CITIC Press · 2012
Reading Ruined Me is Wang Qiang's first collection of bookish essays and his signature work, repeatedly expanded and reissued. The book gathers his no…
Books and Bookmen
· 1886
Books and Bookmen is a collection of essays about books published in 1886 by the Scottish scholar, poet, and folklorist Andrew Lang (1844–1912). The w…
Notes on Six Ugliness
Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016
Notes on Six Ugliness is a collection of essays on books and reading by Zhian, comprising several dozen pieces arranged in four volumes. The title com…
Words of a Book Lover
Hunan People's Publishing House · 2023
For a certain kind of person, books are at once the bulkiest intruders in a small room and the possessions hardest to part with. Whether they read, bu…
Old Stories and Casual Talk of the Prefectural City
Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020
A collection of essays, Fucheng Old Stories and Casual Talk centers on local history and culture, reading notes, and personal essays. The author inter…
Bouquiniana: Notes and Jottings of a Bibliophile
Project Gutenberg · 2023
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Lu Xun: Book Talk at the Edge of the Knife
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2026
Throughout his life, Lu Xun lived among books. As a writer, thinker, and revolutionary, he well understood the immense role books play in the progress…
Collected Works of Zhou Zuoren: Before the Beginning of Spring
Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2024
Before the Beginning of Spring (Lichun Yiqian) has no preface but one afterword. It collects thirty-three pieces (counting "A Few Colophons" as eight)…
Lu Xun: Book Talk at the Blade's Edge
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2022
This book is about Lu Xun and books in every sense. A lifetime companion to books as author, translator, and editor, Lu Xun well understood the immens…
Notes on the Bitter Bamboo
民主与建设出版社 · 2022
"There is a Kuzhu (Bitter Bamboo) City in Shanyin County; the state of Yue enfeoffed Fan Li's son there, so Yue has produced this bamboo since ancient…
Miscellaneous Essays from the Medicine Hall
· 2022
"Yaotang Essays" collects twenty-eight pieces Zhou Zuoren wrote in occupied Beiping between 1940 and 1943. The title "Yaotang" (Medicine Hall) reflect…
Talks of Wind and Rain
· 2022
Fengyu Tan collects Zhou Zuoren's works from November 1935 to May 1936. It was first published by Shanghai Beixin Shuju in October 1936. 'Fengyu Tan' …
Old Books of the Chaoshan People
Jinan University Press · 2021
This book focuses on the emerging literature and art and modern scholarship under the influence of the New Culture Movement, and is devoted to collect…
A Book List: Novels and Novelists (Poetic Thinker Reads the Classics)
· 2026
This book is a selection of more than a hundred essays on contemporary foreign novels and novelists from the well-known blog column "Qin Bazi's Recent…
A Brief History of Great Books: How Sixteen Classics Came to Be and Circulated (Poetic Thinker Reads the Classics)
· 2026
Through the ages, behind every book lies a little-known story. A Brief History of Classics traces the origins of sixteen classics—among them Records o…
Boiling Rain Series IV: Literary Fare: Sketches
· 2021
A selection of recent essays by the renowned book collector Xie Qizhang, The Literary Rice Miscellany takes Republican-era periodical collecting as it…
Book Matters: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Editions
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2020
A Miscellany of Books: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Editions is a work by the renowned cultural scholar and bibliophile Xue Bing. In this book, th…
书舶录：日本访书诗纪
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
The bookshops of Japan are not comparable to the sketchy second-hand book stalls at home; many bookshops have histories of several hundred years and s…
The Reading Lamp
Liaohai Publishing House · 2020
This book collects essays and book-talk pieces on traditional culture that the author published in various newspapers and magazines over the years. Th…