Old Society

18 books

The Distant Black Tent cover
Rating 3.8
The Distant Black Tent 旦巴亚尔杰 / 班丹 Qinghai People's Publishing House · 2022 Set against the history of Tibet around 1904, this book tells the story of the nomadic Yangqu tribe in a remote pastoral village far from the holy cit…
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk cover
Rating 4.7
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk Lu Xun Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This selection gathers 34 works by Lu Xun, most of them included in primary and secondary school textbooks, spanning short stories, essays, and satiri…
A Madman's Diary (Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
A Madman's Diary (Illustrated Edition) Lu Xun China Pictorial Publishing House · 2026 This book opens with Lu Xun's classic short story "A Madman's Diary" and gathers many famous works, including "Medicine," "A Small Incident," "Storm,"…
In Memory of My Mother, a Military Wife cover
Rating 2.8
In Memory of My Mother, a Military Wife 唐卫东 · 2024 In Memory of My Mother, a Military Wife is a heartfelt memoir in which the author, Ms. Tang Weidong, recounts with sincere brushstrokes the life of he…
Tears of Vitex Flowers in Wind and Rain cover
Rating 2.6
Tears of Vitex Flowers in Wind and Rain 殷李有 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This novel is set in the 1930s and 1940s in a small mountain village by the Yangtze River, where the peasant Yin Yongfu is forced to give his son Huzi…
The Complete Literary Works of Lu Xun (4 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
The Complete Literary Works of Lu Xun (4 Volumes) Lu Xun China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 The Complete Literary Works of Lu Xun gathers all of Lu Xun's fiction, essays, and杂文 (zawen), including 19 collections of zawen, three story collectio…
Call to Arms (Guided Reading Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
Call to Arms (Guided Reading Edition) 张珍娟 / 汪龙麟 / 管然荣 Sino-Culture Press · 2023 This book is a master teacher's guide to Lu Xun's story collection Call to Arms. Building on a thorough grasp of the "character design," the guide pre…
Camel Xiangzi cover
Rating 4.8
Camel Xiangzi Lao She Volumes Publishing Company · 2022 Camel Xiangzi tells the life story of Xiangzi, a hardworking, honest, and kind rickshaw puller in Beiping (present-day Beijing), whose fortunes rise a…
Lao She Collected Works: This Life of Mine (New Edition) cover
Rating 4.5
Lao She Collected Works: This Life of Mine (New Edition) Lao She Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2022 This collection features 15 classic short stories and novellas by Lao She, including "This Life of Mine" and "Crescent Moon," offering a comprehensive…
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Rating 4.8
Camel Xiangzi Lao She Taihai Publishing House · 2021 Camel Xiangzi was written by Lao She in 1936. The inspiration came from a friend who told Lao She about an encounter with a rickshaw puller, which aro…
A Slave Mother (One Hundred Red Classics) cover
Rating 4.5
A Slave Mother (One Hundred Red Classics) Rou Shi Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2021 "A Slave Mother" is one of Rou Shi's classic masterpieces. Using the practice of wife-pawning in the old society as its thread, the author depicts in …
The Crescent Moon Collection cover
Rating 4.4
The Crescent Moon Collection Lao She · 2025 Old China, semi-feudal and semi-colonial, was a sick society, and a sick society breeds sick people and sick deeds. The criminal old order gave people…
The Death of the Old Era: Selected Works of Rou Shi cover
Rating 3.6
The Death of the Old Era: Selected Works of Rou Shi Xiao Feng Liaohai Publishing House · 2025 This series offers a wide and varied selection of texts, and combines the reading of literature with the acquisition of knowledge. It not only enhance…
The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun cover
Rating 5.0
The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun Lu Xun Shandong Pictorial Publishing House · 2021 This Complete Fiction of Lu Xun brings together all of Lu Xun's fiction: the collections Call to Arms (1923), Wandering (1926) and Old Tales Retold (1…
The Philosophy of Old Zhang (Premium Public Domain Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
The Philosophy of Old Zhang (Premium Public Domain Edition) Lao She Zhangyue Banli · 2019 Public-domain edition of Lao She, a master in the Gongyuan Project series, which collects 55 of his works. The Philosophy of Lao Zhang depicts the liv…
Lao She's Classic Representative Works: Camel Xiangzi + Teahouse + Beneath the Red Banner (Complete 3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.4
Lao She's Classic Representative Works: Camel Xiangzi + Teahouse + Beneath the Red Banner (Complete 3 Volumes) Lao She Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2021 This three-volume set brings together Lao She's representative novels and plays, including Camel Xiangzi, Teahouse, and Beneath the Red Banner. Camel …
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk + Old Tales Retold + Call to Arms + Wandering + Wild Grass + Lu Xun's Essays (Complete 6 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk + Old Tales Retold + Call to Arms + Wandering + Wild Grass + Lu Xun's Essays (Complete 6 Volumes) Lu Xun Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2021 This精选 set of Lu Xun's collected works brings together Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, Old Tales Retold, Call to Arms, Wandering, Wild Grass, and Lu Xu…
Camel Xiangzi cover
Rating 4.4
Camel Xiangzi Lao She Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2016 Xiangzi comes from the countryside, determined to buy a rickshaw of his own, but the rickshaw he obtains after three years of blood and sweat is seize…