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万历野获编
· 2026
This work is among the finest of Ming dynasty notebooks. Classified by Qian Fang of the Qing dynasty into forty-eight categories with several suppleme…
A Grand View of Unofficial Histories of the Qing Dynasty (Complete in Five Volumes)
· 2025
This is a compilation of historical materials that brings together the best of Qing dynasty unofficial histories and miscellaneous records, divided in…
A Grand View of Unofficial Histories of the Qing Dynasty: Strange Tales of the Qing
· 2025
A compendium of historical materials that brings together the best of Qing dynasty unofficial histories and anecdotal writings, divided into five sect…
Unofficial Biography of Zhao Feiyan
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture has a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early forms o…
Unofficial Biography of Flying Swallow
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early forms …
Surviving Records of Court and Country
· 2024
When the peace agreement was concluded, Empress Xianren (Consort Wei of Emperor Huizong) was about to return south. Emperor Qinzong clung to her carri…
Brief Records of Hairpins
· 2024
Sun Wu obtained an audience with King Helü of Wu by presenting his art of war. Thereupon the king sent forth one hundred beauties from the palace, div…
The Underground Forbidden City
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022
In the spring of 1993, Nala, a young Beijing woman, is frightened into drowning by a ghost sighting. Hua Wen, a young doctor, tries to treat her psych…
Qianlong Repudiates His Wife
· 2025
Before Qianlong ascended the throne, Yongzheng chose Fucha, daughter of Fuheng, as his wife; after Qianlong took the throne, he made her empress. Empr…
Rasputin the Rascal Monk
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Bizarre Cases in the Hongxian Palace
Shanghai Huiwentang Book Company · 2019
Picture this: in this vast land of China, ever since King Yu of Xia set the precedent of passing the throne to his son rather than to a worthy success…
History One Cannot Bear to Examine Closely (Condensed Edition)
Taihai Publishing House · 2022
History Can't Bear a Close Look (Abridged Edition) gathers a wealth of forgotten and misread historical material, separating the true from the false a…