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Bai Jia Xiao Ji
Guangdong People's Publishing House
Bai Jia Xiao Ji is a series of Chinese essays on ideas and culture published by Guangdong People's Publishing House, which calls it "a pocket-sized Hu…
Alternative Hedonism
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025
In today's world, climate anomalies are inseparable from the mass consumerist society we live in. The superstition of endless economic growth and the …
On Decadence
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019
On Decadence is a representative collection of essays by Sakaguchi Ango, a standard-bearer of Japan's postwar "Burai-ha" (Decadent) literary school. T…
The Age of Anti-Intellect: American Culture in a Web of Lies
New Star Press · 2018
This is a book about "why we are getting dumber," yet it is written in a way that is anything but dumb. Susan Jacoby uses American culture as a dissec…
Sequel to Huagai Ji
People's Literature Publishing House · 2021
Sequel to Huagai Ji is Lu Xun's second self-compiled collection of essays, following Huagai Ji. It contains thirty-two essays written in 1926, plus on…
Don't Mistake Vulgarity for Class (Class and Bad, or, The Dumbing of America, 2-Volume Set)
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017
Don't Mistake Vulgarity for Class is a two-volume set of Paul Fussell's two classics of social and cultural criticism: Class: A Guide Through the Amer…
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2017
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System is the representative work of the American writer and cultural critic Paul Fussell, published in the…
Never Compromising III: A Leaderboard of Chinese Writing
New Star Press · 2012
Never Compromising III is the third volume in the annual Never Compromising anthology series, edited by Woodpecker. It collects works published in 201…
The Essential Umberto Eco Collection
CITIC Press · 2016
The Essential Umberto Eco Collection brings together three representative works by the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco (1932–2016): How to …
The Last Intellectuals
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2006
The Last Intellectuals is a celebrated work of public cultural criticism written in the 1980s by the American scholar Russell Jacoby, subtitled Americ…
This Is the Best Chinese Language Book: Essays Volume
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014
The third volume of the series This Is the Best Chinese Language Book, edited by Ye Kai and published by Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House i…
Amusing Ourselves to Death
CITIC Press · 2015
Amusing Ourselves to Death was first published in 1985 and is the seminal work of Neil Postman, an American scholar of media culture. Taking as its th…
Soliloquy Under Tradition
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2000
Soliloquy Under Tradition is Li Ao's breakout work. It collects twenty essays he wrote between 1961 and 1963; the author selected and assembled them i…
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
民主与建设出版社 · 2025
This is the representative work of the British writer and journalist Naomi Wolf. The original book, The Beauty Myth, was first published in the early …
Returning to the Future: History and Society on the Screen
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2019
This book collects seven in-depth dialogues between film scholars Dai Jinhua and Wang Yan on cinematic topics, conducted over roughly six years. The t…
Absolute Recoil
Zhejiang University Press · 2025
Absolute Recoil is a long philosophical treatise by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, originally published in English as Absolute Recoil: Toward…
From "The Mad Socrates" to "The Emperor's New Clothes": The Origin and Evolution of Cynicism from an Aesthetic Perspective
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2021
"Cynic" originally referred to a school of ancient Greek philosophy that inherited the Socratic tradition: they advocated a return to nature and pract…
Amusing Ourselves to Death
CITIC Press · 2015
Though written forty years ago, this book is often called a "prophecy" by readers. Postman's brilliance lies not in sensational criticism but in pushi…
Against Interpretation
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2003
Against Interpretation is a collection of critical essays by the American writer and critic Susan Sontag, published in book form in the 1960s and the …
Umberto Eco Classic Collection (Travels with a Salmon, Misreadings, The Open Work)
CITIC Press · 2016
This volume gathers three works by the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco: Travels with a Salmon, Misreadings, and The Open Work. Travels with…