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A Taste for This Life: Su Dongpo's Culinary Map
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024
A Taste for This Life: Su Dongpo's Culinary Map is a collection of essays on food culture by Lin Weihui, a food columnist and food consultant for the …
The Beauty Few Have Seen
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2019
The Beauty Few Have Seen is a collection of essays on art and culture that takes Western painting as its point of departure. With a strongly personal …
Notes from the Northern Sea
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2008
Notes from the Northern Sea is a collection of essays by the Taiwanese scholar Gong Pengcheng. The mainland Chinese edition was published by Shanghai …
Too Much Noise
Flower City Publishing House · 2009
Too Much Noise is a collection of essays on culture and the arts by the Hong Kong writer and media figure Leung Man-tao. First published by Huacheng P…
The Craftsman's Heart: A Lifetime to Master One Thing
CITIC Press · 2016
The Craftsman's Heart: A Lifetime to Master One Thing was reported and written by Qiu Yang, Qiu Lian, Ai Jiangtao and other journalists of Sanlian Lif…
Rivers and Mountains of the Great Song: Ride a Donkey
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
Rivers and Mountains of the Great Song: Ride a Donkey is a collection of essays on Song dynasty historical and cultural figures by the writer Wang Zhe…
Monkey in a Cap: How Culture Shapes Human Nature
Sichuan People's Publishing House · 2015
Monkey in a Cap is a collection of cultural commentary by Hui Ge, written after years of tracking developments in anthropology, evolutionary psycholog…
The Book of Tea
China Overseas Publishing House · 2015
The Book of Tea is an aesthetic essay written in English in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzō, a Japanese art historian and thinker of the Meiji era. While livin…
A Journey to Dunhuang
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2010
A Journey to Dunhuang is a representative collection of essays by the Japanese-Chinese writer Chen Shunchen (Chin Shunshin), and it won Japan's Osarag…
When the Fragrant Dust Fades: Song Ci and the People of Song
Zhejiang Guji Publishing House · 2024
When the Fragrant Dust Fades: Song Ci and the People of Song is a collection of cultural essays on Song ci by the young poet and writer Li Rangmei, fo…
Thick Face, Black Heart (Complete Edition)
Qunyan Publishing House · 2009
Thick Face, Black Heart is a satirical treatise published by Li Zongwu in 1912, the first year of the Republic of China, under the pen name "Duzun." I…
Records of a Bookworm's Remnants in Tokyo
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2020
Jimbōchō in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, is a world-renowned street of antiquarian bookshops, lined with bookstores since the Meiji era and rich in literary c…
The Silverfish Explains Characters
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024
The Silverfish Explains Characters is the fruit of decades of research on Chinese characters by the late writer, poet, and scholar Liu Shahe. "Silverf…
Corners of the Republic: Mocking and Roasting Republicans, Chatting About Big History
Red Flag Publishing House · 2011
Corners of the Republic is a collection of essays on Republican-era history and culture by Zhang Ming, a professor in the Department of Political Scie…
In Search of Zhuge Liang on the Northern Expedition Trail
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
At the moment the Chu Shi Biao declared, "We must reward and lead the three armies to pacify the Central Plains in the north," Zhuge Liang's fate for …
The Good Bookstore
Yilin Press · 2025
This is not a how-to manual for opening a bookstore but a gentle defense of them. Jeff Deutsch, who spent a decade at the helm of the Seminary Co-op B…
Yu Yang Ye Shi (Unofficial History), Volumes 1–6
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, D&F Publishing House, Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2014
Yu Yang Ye Shi is a cultural-history reader compiled by Gao Xiaosong from his Dragon TV talk show Xiaosong Shuo—This Day in History. The six-volume se…
Shanxi Laoxi'er (Chinese Stories)
CITIC Press · 2013
Shanxi Laoxi'er is one title in the Chinese Stories series, a brand of narrative nonfiction e-books launched by CITIC Press in 2013, and is jointly wr…
Soul and Mind
Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2020
Soul and Mind is an important work by Qian Mu (1895–1990) exploring the Chinese worldview and view of life. It gathers more than a dozen essays and oc…
Masters Are Human Too (China Stories: The World as It Is)
CITIC Press · 2013
Masters Are Human Too is a volume in the "China Stories: The World as It Is" series, a collection of short e-books from CITIC Press that aims to captu…