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Crossing the Ocean to Bring You Home
People's Literature Publishing House · 2025
A new novel by Lu Xun Literature Prize winner Shi Yifeng, and the original novel behind the TV drama of the same title starring Fu Hang. As the old sa…
An Odyssey with My Father
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2022
Which side is the true self? The Odyssey asks this very question—and can a person have more than one face? That year, my father sat in on my Odyssey s…
Tangzhen Story 3: Hunger
Chongqing Publishing House · 2026
One sweltering summer, Song Miao, a young man who has quit his job in Shanghai, arrives in Tangzhen to carry out his grandmother's dying wish: to find…
Memories of Lanling
China Culture and History Press · 2026
With rich detail, *Memory of Lanling* traces the county's thousand-year history. The opening chapter, "A Thousand-Year-Old County: Tracing Lanling's O…
Bronze and Sunflower Picture Book Award-Winning Work: Grandfather's Hometown
Tiantian Publishing House · 2026
Grandpa's Hometown, winner of the Bronze Sunflower Picture Book Award, tells the story of Grandpa's experience as an emigrant through pictures and tex…
Brave New Humans
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
At 27, Sarah Dingle suddenly learned she had been conceived through sperm donation and had no biological connection to the man she knew as her father.…
The Twenty-Nine Springs Lucia Fled Through
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
The author of this book, Maria, was an abandoned infant who caused a sensation across Italy. Her parents left her on a park lawn and then both jumped …
Source of the Great River
Qinghai People's Publishing House · 2025
To nurture this people and forge this civilization, the Yellow River strove for tens of millions of years! This is a heartfelt biography of the mother…
The Literary Heart of the Earth
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
One morning, the old boat by the river was gone. Old Liu was uneasy, murmuring the name Shuisheng as he hurried along the river to search. He searched…
Jin Yong: The Life of a Confucian Knight-Errant
Sino-Culture Press · 2025
The author of this book once accompanied Jin Yong on a return to his hometown and on a search for the roots of The Deer and the Cauldron. The author, …
Satori in Paris
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
In 1965, in search of the name "Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac," Kerouac went to Paris alone. During ten days in Paris (and Brittany), like a solitary t…
Water of Endless Life
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024
*The Water of Life* is a work of nonfiction that traces and reflects on the geography, culture, and spirituality of the Yangtze River. It comprises a …
Nostalgia of the Greater Bay
Flower City Publishing House · 2024
A beautifully written and richly textured collection of humanistic essays. Drawing on field visits and interviews in over fifty representative ancient…
Everything We Forgot: Retracing My Father's Escape Route
New Star Press · 2024
In January 1945, German forces withdrew from Poland, and more than one million German civilians and over 500,000 German soldiers retreated to Western …
Paradise on Earth in the Misty Rain: Encountering Old Hangzhou
Chongqing Publishing House · 2022
A panoramic visual and textual portrait of old Hangzhou; for Hangzhou natives and anyone curious about the city; Li Hangyu, a leading figure of the "R…
Notes on Visiting the Red
Haitian Publishing House · 2022
Red Journey Notes is the fourth book on Red history by Duan Yaping, a historian of the Red Army and veteran Communist Party member. Over several decad…
The Ultimate Questions of Humankind
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
Drawing on his professional scientific background, extensive reading, and on-site interviews, the author presents the best current answers to these th…
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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 …
Series on Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Towns and Villages: Famous Villages Series (6 Volumes)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2019
General Introduction to the Series: General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that people should be able to "see the mountains, see the water, and …
The Silent Shadow
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2018
Munich, December 1997. Hector returns to his parents' house for the Christmas holidays. His chronically ill mother reveals a startling secret she has …