Writers

14 books

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Random Thoughts Sanmao Harbin Publishing House · 2003 Random Thoughts is a collection of short prose pieces by Sanmao, first published in March 1985 by Crown Publishing in Taipei as no. 1106 of the Crown …
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Becoming a Writer Dorothea Brande China Renmin University Press · 2011 Becoming a Writer is a writing guide written in 1934 by the American author, editor, and writing teacher Dorothea Brande; the Chinese edition was tran…
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Rating 3.9
Plain Years, Brocade Hours Annie Baby Writers Publishing House · 2007 Plain Years, Brocade Hours is a collection of essays and fiction by Anni Baobei (later renamed Qingshan), published in 2007. The book is divided into …
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Rating 4.2
Xin Fengnian's Music Notes 辛丰年 Shanghai Music Publishing House · 1999 Xin Fengnian's rarity lies in the fact that he never set himself up as an expert. He did not even finish middle school; music was something he taught …
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Rating 4.0
The Sense of Style: A Writing Guide for the 21st Century 史蒂芬·平克 China Machine Press · 2018 The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century is a book devoted to writing by Steven Pinker, an American linguist and…
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Rating 3.8
Beyond the Jianghu Yang Zhao Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2024 Subtitled "Imagining Another China Through Wuxia," this is writer and critic Yang Zhao's close reading of Jin Yong's fifteen wuxia novels, adapted fro…
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The Coldness of All Things (Chinese Story) 张伟 CITIC Press · 2013 The Coldness of All Things (Chinese Story) is one of the e-books in the "Chinese Story" series launched by CITIC Press in 2013. Compiled and introduce…
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Kingpin Vol. 2 Matthew Rosenberg Kingpin is a standalone Marvel Comics series centered on Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, Daredevil's arch-enemy and the king of crime in New York. Written b…
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Rating 4.2
The Eternal Witness: A Maurice Blanchot Critical Handbook Wei Guangji Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press · 2024 Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was a writer, novelist, and critic as well as a thinker. With extraordinary self-restraint he maintained throughout his l…
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How to Write Ye Shengtao Zhonghua Book Company · 2007 How to Write is one volume in the Zhonghua Book Company series Learning Language from the Masters, collecting twenty-one essays by Ye Shengtao on the …
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When Everything Darkens Around Us 荞麦 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 When Everything Darkens Around Us is the first essay collection by the writer Qiaomai (Soba), supervised by Han Han and published by Zhejiang Literatu…
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Rating 4.3
The Rainy Season Will Not Come Again Sanmao Nanhai Publication Company · 2022 The Rainy Season Will Not Come Again is a collection of essays by Sanmao, gathering pieces she wrote and published roughly between the ages of sevente…
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Selected Readings in Twenty-First-Century Chinese Fiction 许子东 Jiuzhou Press · 2025 Following his Re-reading Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, scholar Xu Zidong offers this sequel, Volume 9 of The Collected Works of Xu Zidong, publis…
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Rating 2.9
Finding the Way 生还者 · 2025 The author's own analysis and reflections on the difficulties many writers face and on some of the disorder in the field.