Spirit of the Times

30 books

David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview cover
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview 大卫·福斯特·华莱士 CITIC Press · 2019 This book is the Wallace volume in "The Last Interview" series (Series 1, Book 06), collecting six interviews with the American writer David Foster Wa…
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Rating 3.2
Engines of Change: Fifteen Cars That Changed the World 保罗·英格拉西亚 Tianjin Science and Technology Press · 2022 In American history, certain car models have represented more than their owners' personal image; they are calling cards of American culture, shapers o…
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Rating 4.2
Views of Life and Death in Later Han China Yu Ying-shih Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2005 This book is an important study by Mr. Yu Ying-shih examining Chinese ideas about life and death during the Eastern Han dynasty, drawing on both textu…
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Rating 4.1
The Distance of Watchfulness Zhou Guoping Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2018 The Distance of Watchfulness is Zhou Guoping's first collection of essays, gathering pieces he wrote between 1983 and April 1995. During the dozen or …
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Rating 2.9
Bamboo Rhyme, Pine Breeze 邓钧予 · 2025 This poetry collection has a character of its own, with a distinctive style and many strengths. Its scenes are vivid, its language fluent, its emotion…
Voices of an Awakening Era: An Anthology of Peking University Faculty and Students During the May Fourth New Culture Movement cover
Rating 3.8
Voices of an Awakening Era: An Anthology of Peking University Faculty and Students During the May Fourth New Culture Movement 《觉醒年代的声音》编委会 · 2025 To mark the centenary of the Communist Party of China, advance education on the "Four Histories," inspire young people to practice core socialist valu…
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Rating 3.2
A Study on Cultivating Values among Young Students in the Process of Chinese-Style Modernization 沈妉 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 Young students' values are a "sensor" of shifts in the spirit of the times, the broad trajectory of national development, and the visibility or latenc…
National Character and the Spirit of the Times: A Study of the Themes and Values of Contemporary New Confucianism cover
Rating 3.8
National Character and the Spirit of the Times: A Study of the Themes and Values of Contemporary New Confucianism 刘爱军 Peking University Press · 2026 This book explores in depth core concepts such as nationality and nationalism, modernity and modernism, and zeitgeist and contemporaneity, systematica…
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Rating 2.9
40 People in Dialogue About 40 Years 中央文明办中国文明网 Xuexi Publishing House · 2025 To mark the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, China Wenming Network specially invited 40 outstanding contributors from all walks of life who …
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Rating 3.0
Biographies of Legendary Figures of the Republican Era 魏博通 Heilongjiang Northeast Digital Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. · 2025 During the Republic of China era, numerous legendary figures emerged. From political leaders to cultural celebrities, from revolutionary heroes to bus…
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Rating 3.4
One Book to Understand the Film: A Chinese Odyssey 马千里 · 2025 This book adopts a dual perspective of deconstruction and reconstruction to look past the comic surface of Stephen Chow's classic and reveal the philo…
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Rating 4.0
The Form and Spirit of Chinese Intellectuals Yue Daiyun Hainan Publishing House · 2025 In this book, the author Yue Daiyun, a distinguished figure in Chinese academia who has made vital contributions to the development of comparative lit…
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Rating 4.5
Two Poets (Fu Lei's Classic Translation) Honoré de Balzac / Fu Lei · 2024 This is one of the most profound and representative masterpieces in Balzac's series of novels, a work that concentrates on the whole social environmen…
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Rating 4.5
A Study of the Cultural History of the Northern Song Dynasty 陈植锷 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 The cultural spirit of an age is often best revealed where its various cultural dimensions converge. In this history of Northern Song culture, the aut…
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Rating 3.0
I Have a Dream Chen Jin / 戚义明 New Star Press · 2022 One of the first titles in the "People's China" series, a key publishing project of the China International Communications Group, I Have a Dream: How …
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Rating 3.6
The Village First Secretary 忽培元 Writers Publishing House · 2026 A powerful novel that ties its lifeline to real life. "The First Secretary of the Village" tells how First Secretary Bai Lang leads officials and vill…
A Study of the Relationship between Object-Chanting Literature and the Spirit of the Age: A Case Study of Peony Aesthetic Culture and Literature in the Tang and Song Dynasties cover
Rating 3.3
A Study of the Relationship between Object-Chanting Literature and the Spirit of the Age: A Case Study of Peony Aesthetic Culture and Literature in the Tang and Song Dynasties 路成文 / 栾栋 Jinan University Press · 2021 Lu Chengwen's A Study of the Relationship Between Object-Poetry Literature and the Spirit of the Age: A Case Study of Peony Aesthetic Culture and Lite…
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Rating 3.7
Soul Endorsement 耿立 · 2020 Soul Endorsement collects the author's recent major essays. The works enter little-known spiritual dimensions and, grounded in a grand narrative of li…
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Rating 3.6
Lu Xun, Literary Giant of the People 李平心 · 2020 The first most systematic and incisive monograph on Lu Xun's thought after his death. The author is a professor in the History Department of East Chin…
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Rating 3.2
萤火:巴布戏剧集 陈立 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 In his speech at the Forum on Literature and Art, General Secretary Xi Jinping once said: "'Poetry and prose follow the fortunes of the times, and nev…