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Changing Planes
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018
Changing Planes is a 2003 short-story collection by Ursula K. Le Guin, translated into Chinese by Liang Yuhan. The book opens with a methodological in…
The Hungry Prosperous Age: The Gains and Losses of the Qianlong Era
Chongqing Publishing House · 2022
This book takes the Qianlong reign as its entry point to ask a seemingly contradictory question: why did a dynasty with the largest population, the wi…
Ancient Chinese Officialdom
China International Broadcasting Publishing House · 2010
The official system refers to the overall institutions governing the establishment of state organs and the selection, assessment, promotion and demoti…
Illustrated World · Chinese Classics Academy Series · A General History of China (Volume Two)
Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2008
This is the second volume of A General History of China in the Illustrated World · Chinese Classics Academy Series. Continuing from Volume One, it cov…
Considerations on Representative Government
The Commercial Press · 1982
Considerations on Representative Government is one of the representative works of the nineteenth-century British thinker John Stuart Mill. The origina…
From Mufti to Official: The Transformation of Provincial Administration in Late Qing China
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2014
This book is a monograph by Guan Xiaohong, professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University, on the reform of provincial administration in the late Qing…
A History of Chinese Institutions (Volumes I & II)
Shanghai Educational Publishing House · 2002
A History of Chinese Institutions is a specialized historical work to which Lü Simian (1884–1957) devoted exceptional effort. Originally titled A Soci…
Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2021
Russia is renowned worldwide for vodka and its staggering culture of heavy drinking, but in this book Mark Lawrence Schrad, Associate Professor in the…
The Hesitation of the Great Han
Lijiang Publishing House · 2017
The Hesitation of the Great Han is a popular history book by Haotian Muyun (real name Tan Zi'an), part of the "Chronic Diseases of Empires" series in …
The Cage of Institutions
CITIC Press · 2016
The Cage of Institutions is a collection of essays on institutional topics written for a general audience, co-authored by Xu Yijun and He Deping, two …
North America, Volume 1
North America is a travelogue by the Victorian English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), based on his journey through North America between Augus…
The Granular Society: Social Models in the Digital Age
CITIC Press · 2017
Digitalization has seeped into every corner of society: fitness bands record our daily steps and heart rates, search engines log every pause, and algo…
Three Studies in Ancient Chinese History: Politics, Region, and Ethnicity
Zhonghua Book Company · 2025
This book is a collection of historical essays by Li Zhi'an, Chair Professor at Nankai University and a leading scholar of Yuan dynasty history. It br…
The Dragon Bed: A Chronicle of Six Ming Emperors
People's Literature Publishing House · 2013
The Dragon Bed: A Chronicle of Six Ming Emperors is one of the representative works of the scholar Li Jiefei's "Ming History Series." Taking the "drag…
Anecdotes of Imperial Politics: Secret History of the Early Qing—At the Turning Point of History
Beijing Publishing House · 2008
This book is one volume in Li Yaping's "Anecdotes of Imperial Politics" series and a companion piece to Secret History of the Early Qing: The Road to …
Understanding the Qing Dynasty Series (5-Volume Set)
Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2021
The Understanding the Qing Dynasty Series is a five-volume popular history of the Qing dynasty, written jointly by several Qing historians and history…
A Smaller History of Greece
Cosimo Classics · 2005
A Smaller History of Greece is a concise reader of ancient Greek history written for school instruction by the British classical scholar and lexicogra…
Great Transformations in History
China Development Press · 2007
This book selects ten transformations between the sixth century BCE and the nineteenth century CE that had a major impact on world history, sketching …
Why Does Inequality Matter?
CITIC Press · 2019
This book is an ethical work by the American philosopher Thomas Scanlon on equality. Its main framework derives from his 1996 Lindley Lectures, "The D…
A Study of Imperial Power in the Late Tang: An Examination of Hidden Power
Peking University Press · 2025
This book takes Tang imperial power after the An Lushan Rebellion (755–763) as its subject, examining the forms and exercise of imperial power in the …