Family Vicissitudes

21 books

Jörn Uhl: A Novel cover
Rating 3.5
Jörn Uhl: A Novel Frenssen, Gustav, 1863-1945 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 …
Overseas Chinese Prosperity in Haiyan cover
Rating 3.4
Overseas Chinese Prosperity in Haiyan 刘义强 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 Centered on Haiyan Overseas Chinese Farm in Taishan, Jiangmen—a key node city in the Greater Bay Area—this book is divided by pre-return origin into s…
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Rating 3.0
Phoenix Rising 海饼干 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This novel tells the rise and fall of three generations of women. It begins during the War of Resistance Against Japan, with the family of Carpenter K…
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Rating 3.4
Floating Sun 吴然 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is Wu Ran's latest novel, composed of three parts—"Jinzi Meihe," "Tingting Yangui," and "Lanshi Yin Hui"—totaling 29 chapters and about 170,000 c…
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平遥话 刘伟波 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The novel Pingyao Hua takes the Pingyao dialect as the core of its narrative, weaving together the history and folk customs of the ancient city. It te…
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Rating 4.4
Years Virginia Woolf / 蒲隆 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 Published in 1937, The Years was the last novel Woolf published in her lifetime and the best-selling of her books during her life. It traces more than…
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Rating 1.8
Genealogy of the Gong Clan Anonymous · 2024 The Gong clan descends in one continuous line; originally all bore the surname Ji. The Ji ancestors were generous by nature; King Wu overthrew Zhou an…
Like Wind, Like Jade cover
Rating 4.0
Like Wind, Like Jade Zhang Xin Flower City Publishing House · 2024 "如封似闭" is the ninth form of Wu-style tai chi, and it captures well the low-key, forbearing, forceful yet unshowy character of Guangzhou people. The fi…
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Rating 2.5
Slowly Comes the Tathagata 徐新庆 东软电子出版社 · 2024 Born in the early 1960s into poverty. His great-grandfather saved others from hunger but starved to death himself in a famine; his grandfather worked …
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Rating 3.2
Stringless 殷德杰 · 2023 Comparable to To Live, it moves readers to tears. It tells of an individual's twists of fate in a great era, of the brightness of human nature, and al…
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Rating 2.5
The Flower in the Waves 乔楠 China Publishing Group Digital Media Co., Ltd. · 2023 Told entirely in a grey-toned narrative voice, the novel is steeped in melancholy from beginning to end. It follows an ordinary family through the soc…
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Rating 2.8
Changes of a Family 程湛馨 · 2021 A plain farmer with a bit of learning, Hao Chunqiu, and an ordinary family precept—“Study with care from childhood; know that books contain gold”—guid…
Changes of a Family (II) cover
Rating 2.8
Changes of a Family (II) 程湛馨 · 2021 The second installment in Hebei writer Cheng Zhanxin's novel series The Changes of Home is a companion volume to the first, and was selected by the Pu…
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Rating 3.3
Scenes 文清丽 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026 Light and Shadow is a chronicle of women's growth spanning half a century. Centered on the fifty-year transformations of the Wang family in a village …
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Rating 2.9
Old Stories of the Flower Bridge 九月 China Zhigong Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2020 The novel tells the story of Yuchan, an ordinary rural woman in southern Gansu in northwest China, and the people around her, and of the hard years th…
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Rating 3.9
Earth, Dragon and Snake Lao She · 2025 Ding Yishan, the head of the Ding family, is a traditional gentry figure. As the chaos of the Japanese invasion unfolds, his three sons take different…
Inside the Neishi Residence cover
Rating 3.2
Inside the Neishi Residence 上海市浦东新区文物保护管理所 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 Neishidi is a typical Jiangnan official's residence and, more unusually for China, a Jiangnan folk house associated with a remarkable concentration of…
Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction cover
Rating 3.5
Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 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 …
The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete cover
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The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 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…
Lao She's Classic Trilogy: Four Generations Under One Roof cover
Rating 4.6
Lao She's Classic Trilogy: Four Generations Under One Roof Lao She Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017 The two-volume Four Generations Under One Roof comprises Part One and Part Two. The misery of a fallen homeland, the grief of separated families, the …