Famous Figures

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An Illustrated Biography of Lin Huiyin cover
Rating 3.4
An Illustrated Biography of Lin Huiyin 林南 New World Press · 2026 This book recounts the remarkable life of Lin Huiyin, one of the most celebrated women of her era, in fluent and natural prose. Accompanied by dozens …
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Rating 3.2
The Little Girl Blowing a Dandelion 颜小鹂 / 大面包 People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 The Little Girl Blowing Dandelion Seeds is a collection of reminiscences. Yan Xiaoli, a renowned children's book publisher, grew up surrounded by writ…
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Rating 4.3
The Memoirs of Carl Flesch 卡尔·弗莱什 / 筱章 / 孙予 · 2026 Carl Flesch's memoir is a musical autobiography written by the eminent twentieth-century violin virtuoso Carl Flesch himself, translated by Xiao Zhang…
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Rating 2.9
Zodiac Sculptures 贺新海 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is a work of documentary writing on sculpture. Drawing on what he personally saw and heard and on firsthand experience, the author recounts in fi…
Approaching Ba Jin: Ba Jin and Xiao Shan cover
Rating 3.7
Approaching Ba Jin: Ba Jin and Xiao Shan 刘恩义 / 王幼麟 Sichuan People's Publishing House · 2026 Wang Youlin and Liu Enyi, close friends since their university days, found in Ba Jin and Xiao Shan a couple whose love embodied the sublime and the be…
32 Letters from Morgan to His Son (Youth Edition) cover
Rating 3.4
32 Letters from Morgan to His Son (Youth Edition) 张军霞 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2026 John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (1837–1912), once called "the Napoleon of Wall Street," was one of the most famous financial titans in modern American financ…
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Rating 2.8
Charming Tianfu: Comprehensive Practice Course for Primary School Grades 4–6 吴明渠 / 吴天宇 Sino-Culture Press · 2026 Written by frontline primary-school Chinese-language teachers from Dongsheng Primary School in Shuangliu District, Chengdu, this book introduces stude…
Charming Tianfu: Comprehensive Practice Course for Primary School Grades 1–3 cover
Rating 2.8
Charming Tianfu: Comprehensive Practice Course for Primary School Grades 1–3 吴明渠 / 周洪伟 Sino-Culture Press · 2026 This book was written by frontline primary school Chinese teachers at Dongsheng Primary School in Shuangliu District, Chengdu, and aims to introduce s…
You Can Laugh at Me, But Please Don't Laugh at My Stage cover
Rating 2.0
You Can Laugh at Me, But Please Don't Laugh at My Stage 罗志祥 九洲音像出版有限公司 · 2026 You Can Laugh at Me, But Please Don't Laugh at My Stage is an candid confession published as Show Lo marks thirty years since his debut. In the book h…
When the Stars of Jinan Shine (Volume 1) cover
Rating 3.5
When the Stars of Jinan Shine (Volume 1) 暨南大学校友总会 Jinan University Press · 2025 This book profiles 32 distinguished scholars from Jinan University, from its founding as Jinan School in the late Qing dynasty to the founding of the …
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Rating 3.5
Biography of Qian Junfu 吕成冬 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2025 Drawing on documents, archives, and visual sources, this book chronicles Qian Junfu's life in chronological order—from his birth and studies in variou…
The Substitute: The Autobiography of Prince Harry cover
Rating 3.7
The Substitute: The Autobiography of Prince Harry Prince Harry / 李尧 / 陈鲁豫 民主与建设出版社 · 2025 A landmark royal memoir, told in his own words by Prince Harry, second son of King Charles III and Princess Diana. With rare courage and candor, Princ…
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Rating 4.6
My Literary Prize 托马斯·伯恩哈德 / 马文韬 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 Thomas Bernhard was a frequent recipient of literary prizes, having received dozens of major awards, including the Büchner Prize, the most important i…
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Rating 3.0
The Choice of Youth 陈昇 / Liu Junyan / 王雅瑞 China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2025 Youth is a pivotal stage of life, and every choice made during this period matters greatly. Aimed at young readers, this book focuses on the key decis…
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Rating 3.2
My Songs and I 关牧村 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 This is Guan Mucun's first personal autobiography. In it she reviews in detail her artistic life journey, telling the story of her struggle from a you…
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Rating 3.0
Family Traditions of Distinguished Houses 沈秀红 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 In modern and contemporary times, one renowned master after another has shone in China's humanities and social sciences and even in the natural scienc…
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up Draco Malfoy cover
Rating 4.2
Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up Draco Malfoy 汤姆·费尔顿 / 靳婷婷 / 余汀 / 黄韵歆 · 2024 Step out of Gate Five of the Warner Bros. lot—how does one live as an ordinary Muggle? The highlights and shadows of "best villain" Draco Malfoy, and …
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Rating 3.6
Learning Is What I Have Relied On All My Life 乔治·帕潘德里欧 / 柯琪 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 As former Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou has led a remarkable life—born into a political dynasty that produced three generations of elect…
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Rating 3.8
Messi vs. Ronaldo 乔舒亚•罗宾逊 / 乔纳森·克莱格 / 刘硕阳 Hunan Education Publishing House · 2024 Drawing on extensive primary sources and the author's years of original reporting, this book offers an in-depth narrative of the intertwined sagas of …
The Master Returns: Chen Heqin, Everything for Children cover
Rating 4.2
The Master Returns: Chen Heqin, Everything for Children 柯小卫 / 陈庆选 · 2024 The Century of Chinese Memory · Educators series is an education and culture series carefully developed by our press in 2019. This book is one volume …