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Seeking a Path Across the Nine Provinces
环球人文出版社 · 2025
Local customs are the root of the Chinese character; intangible cultural heritage is the root of Chinese thought. As times change, we are used to trav…
Epic Continent: Blood and Fire in European History
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2022
This book follows in the footsteps of epic heroes, tracing the author's travels and adventures across continental Europe. In European history, heroic …
Seeking Folk Customs: Zhong Xiaokui Explores Interesting Folk Traditions
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020
Through five chapters—Festival Customs, The Twenty-Four Solar Terms, Everyday Etiquette, The Joy of Food, Craft Heritage, and Life Rituals—this book i…
Basque Legends: With an Essay on the Basque Language
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 …
Chinese Prophecy and Customs
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2026
“Why do people wear red during their zodiac birth year?” “Why must you avoid unlucky words during the New Year?” “Why do people choose an auspicious d…
Biography of Xiamen: The Garden City on the Sea
Foreign Languages Press · 2026
Silk Road Cities: A Hundred Portraits is a key publishing project of the China International Publishing Group. Echoing the Belt and Road Initiative, i…
Biography of Luoyang: The Endless Elegance of the Capital
Foreign Languages Press · 2026
This book unfolds around the themes of time and space, people and local customs, and the city's connection to the Silk Road. Through the mutual infilt…
The Golden Apple Forgotten at the Treetop (Babel Pocket Poetry)
People's Literature Publishing House · 2026
This poetry collection, carefully translated by young woman poet Yan Jiunian, gathers 100 extant short poems and fragments by Sappho. Apart from the t…
The Spring Mountains Are in Sight
Flower City Publishing House · 2026
There is a group of people who live in Xiangxi villages whose names are hard to remember, flying fingers, silent faces, in the moist air of Xiangxi, u…
Beyond the Spring Mountains: Western Hunan Trilogy Box Set
Flower City Publishing House · 2026
“Beyond the Spring Mountains: A Xiangxi Trilogy” comprises three books: Spring Water Fills the City with Flowers, The Spring Hills Beckon, and Grandma…
Spring Water Fills the City with Flowers
Flower City Publishing House · 2026
“Beyond the Spring Mountains: A Xiangxi Trilogy,” Volume One Here, time does not slip away to an alarm clock, but is struck awake by the thump-thump o…
Through Five Thousand Years
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
With five thousand years of profound accumulation, Chinese civilization has formed a rich system of traditional wisdom. Learning this traditional cult…
Surging Rivers
· 2026
The title Jiang He Ben Teng combines "Jiang" from Zhenjiang, the current place of residence, and "He" from Shunhe, the place of origin—Shunhe Village,…
Rippling Waters, Resounding Voice: Yangmei Ancient Town, Nanning (Guangxi Village Culture Series, Volume 1)
Lijiang Publishing House · 2026
Part of the Guangxi Village Culture Series, this book takes Yangmei, an ancient town in Nanning, as its subject. Divided into five chapters and writte…
A Study of the Old Shore of Jingjiang
· 2026
Commissioned by the Jingjiang Municipal CPPCC to advance local cultural heritage, this volume is part of the "Old Jingjiang" book series. It examines …
Tibet: The Most Beautiful Encounter
Qinghai People's Publishing House · 2026
With poetic strokes, the author portrays Tibet's history and culture, its humanistic scenery, and its ethnic customs, revealing a people's ancient civ…
Confucius and Laozi Discussing the Way: Portraits for the Eastern Axial Civilization
China Publishing House Inc · 2026
The Reawakening of Civilization: A Painting's Thousand-Year Question.
The Five Suns of Mexico
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
Published at the turn of the new century by Fuentes, Mexico's national treasure of a writer, this ambitious novel fuses epic, legend, and fiction into…
Where Are You From: A Documentary Record of Interviews Retracing the Huguang-Filling-Sichuan Migration Route
· 2025
Where Do You Come From: An On-the-Scene Chronicle of Retracing the Migrant Road of Huguang Filling Sichuan is a collection of the large-scale all-medi…
Take a Book to Xishuangbanna
China National Photographic Art Publishing House · 2025
I was once a little novice carving scriptures before ancient temple pagodas a young Dai boy gazing at the stars from the shoulders of a towering tree …