Critical Spirit

81 books

Popular Zhuangzi Studies (Miscellaneous Chapters) cover
Rating 2.6
Popular Zhuangzi Studies (Miscellaneous Chapters) 胡文臻 / 潘晨光 / 郭飚 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2022 Zhuangzi was the principal early founder of naturalism in traditional Chinese culture. His philosophical ideas predate Western philosophy by more than…
The Spark Never Dies: Selected Essays by Lu Xun (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
The Spark Never Dies: Selected Essays by Lu Xun (Illustrated Edition) Lu Xun China Pictorial Publishing House · 2026 This book selects Lu Xun's most representative essays, moving from "critiquing feudal ethics" to "mirroring the national character," from "awakening t…
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Rating 2.7
One Book Thoroughly Explains the Shitong 史易安 · 2025 This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Tang dynasty historian Liu Zhiji's celebrated work Shitong (Generalities on History), illuminating his ou…
A Biography of Lu Xun You Can Finish in Half an Hour cover
Rating 2.2
A Biography of Lu Xun You Can Finish in Half an Hour 方迪 · 2025 This book aims to portray the life of Lu Xun, the “soul of the nation.” Originally a medical student who went to Japan, he resolutely “abandoned medic…
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Rating 4.0
The Poetics of the Producer: A Study of Lu Xun's Essays 李国华 Peking University Press · 2025 This book traces the internal rhetorical logic, essayistic form, generative context, and authorial subject position of Lu Xun's zawen. Centering on co…
Selected Works of Lu Xun (9 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
Selected Works of Lu Xun (9 Volumes) Lu Xun · 2025 From fiction to essays, from satirical prose to letters—reading Lu Xun is not reading history but reading the present; not reading answers but reading…
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Rating 5.0
Call to Arms Lu Xun Flower City Publishing House · 2024 Call to Arms collects Lu Xun's short stories written between 1918 and 1922. It marks the beginning and maturity of modern Chinese fiction and pioneere…
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Rating 3.8
Chapter on the Period of Order Wang Chong · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early forms of thought ar…
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Rating 4.3
On Exaggerations Wang Chong · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early intell…
On the Poison of Words cover
Rating 3.5
On the Poison of Words Wang Chong · 2024 China's traditional culture and thought have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought are distinctive: r…
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Rating 4.2
Sequel to A Book to Burn 李卓吾 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are especially di…
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Rating 3.8
Discourse on Heaven Wang Chong Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive features, and s…
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Rating 3.8
Later Talks by Candlelight Zhou Zuoren Xianzhi Xianxing (imprint of Beijing Mingtianyuanhang Cultural Transmission Co., Ltd.) · 2024 Candlelight Talks: Second Series mainly collects Zhou Zuoren's writings from April to October 1937. The contents fall into two categories: one express…
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Part Two) cover
Rating 4.5
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Part Two) 邱锋 / Chang Sunhaotian Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 Wang Chong's Lunheng is a monumental work not only in Chinese intellectual history but in world intellectual history. Dedicated to "attacking falsehoo…
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Rating 4.5
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Part One) 邱锋 / Chang Sunhaotian Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 Wang Chong's Lunheng is a monumental work not only in the history of Chinese thought but in the history of world thought. Taking "condemning falsehood…
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Hardcover): Complete Text, Full Annotations, and Complete Translation of Chinese Classic Masterworks (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Hardcover): Complete Text, Full Annotations, and Complete Translation of Chinese Classic Masterworks (3 Volumes) 邱锋 / Chang Sunhaotian Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 Wang Chong's Lunheng is a monumental work not only in the history of Chinese thought but in the history of world thought. Taking "condemning falsehood…
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Part Three) cover
Rating 4.5
Discourses Weighed in the Balance (Part Three) 邱锋 / Chang Sunhaotian Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 Wang Chong's Lunheng is a monumental work not only in the history of Chinese thought but also in the history of world thought. Dedicated to "attacking…
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Random Thoughts II cover
Rating 4.6
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Random Thoughts II Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume is one of the Annotated Selected Works of Lu Xun series, edited and annotated by Lin Xianzhi. The pieces are drawn from such collections a…
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Prose, Prose Poems, Poetry, and Letters cover
Rating 4.6
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Prose, Prose Poems, Poetry, and Letters Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume is one of the titles in Lin Xianzhi's annotated edition of Selected Works of Lu Xun, with selections drawn from Dawn Blossoms Plucked at D…
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Rating 4.3
Collected Works of Gong Zizhen 朱邦蔚 / 关道雄 Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2023 Gong Zizhen was a thinker, man of letters, and pioneer of reform in the Qing dynasty. His works include the Ding'an Collected Works, with over 300 sur…