Historical Context

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Rating 3.1
Poets of the Great Tang 白落梅 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Poets of the Great Tang is a literary biography of Tang dynasty poets by the writer Bai Luomei, published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House…
Comic Guests, Issue 116 cover
Comic Guests, Issue 116 Zhiyin Manke Editorial Department Hubei Zhiyin Animation Co., Ltd. Comic Guests is an original full-color serialized comics magazine supervised by Hubei Zhiyin Media Group and sponsored by Hubei Zhiyin Animation Co., …
Practical Java High Concurrency Programming cover
Practical Java High Concurrency Programming 葛一鸣 / 郭超 Publishing House of Electronics Industry · 2015 Practical Java High Concurrency Programming is a hands-on book on concurrent programming for developers with some Java experience. It opens with the h…
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Inside the Great Writers of the Republic of China: The Literary Masters Minguo Wenlin Modern Press · 2018 This book is the **literature volume** of the Inside the Great Writers of the Republic of China series. The author, Minguo Wenlin, is a Beijing-based …
Ping Tian Ce · I · The Spirit Blight Approaches cover
Ping Tian Ce · I · The Spirit Blight Approaches Wu Zui Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 Book One of the Ping Tian Ce series. Set in an era when the Northern Wei and the Southern Liang dynasties stand opposed: the Liang's new emperor Xiao …
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National Geographic Magazine, September 1960 (Vol. 118, No. 3) National Geographic Society National Geographic Society · 1960 This issue is Volume 118, No. 3 of the American National Geographic, published in September 1960. The cover feature is "Where Elephants Have the Right…
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Comic Weekly No. 201 Zhiyin Manke Editorial Department Zhiyin Media Group · 2012 Issue No. 201 of Comic Weekly is one issue of the full-color original story-comic weekly published by Hubei Zhiyin Media Group. Judging by secondhand …
The Point Guard cover
The Point Guard Grove Street Brothers The Point Guard is a long-form basketball competition novel by web novelist Grove Street Brothers, completed on Qidian Chinese Network on November 9, …
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The Megatrends of the Internet of Things Zhang Duo Tsinghua University Press · 2010 The Megatrends of the Internet of Things, written by Zhang Duo, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, and published by Tsinghua University Press…
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Uncanny Avengers #1 Rick Remender / John Cassaday This volume is issue #1 of the 2013 series of the Marvel comic Uncanny Avengers and an important part of Marvel Comics' "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. The st…
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Rating 4.0
A Thousand Feathers of the Dark Night: Strange Tales from Ancient China Lin Suwei Law Press China · 2011 *A Thousand Feathers of the Dark Night: Strange Tales from Ancient China* (the Law Press edition's original subtitle was "Magic Tang Dynasty") is a co…
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Rating 4.0
Night Talks on Han and Liu Jin Xingyao Beijing Publishing House · 2015 Night Talks on Han and Liu is a late-life work in the shihua style by the classical literature scholar Jin Xingyao, included in Beijing Publishing Hou…
Comic Lover No. 66 cover
Comic Lover No. 66 Zhiyin Manke Editorial Department Hubei Zhiyin Animation Co., Ltd. · 2008 Issue No. 66 of Comic Lover belongs to the early period of the magazine, the 66th issue overall. Launched in January 2006, Comic Lover positioned itse…
General High School Textbook · General Technology, Elective Compulsory 8: Technology and Career Exploration cover
General High School Textbook · General Technology, Elective Compulsory 8: Technology and Career Exploration Liu Qiongfa / Fan Mingcheng Guangdong Education Publishing House, Guangdong Science and Technology Press · 2021 This textbook is developed in accordance with the General Technology Curriculum Standards for Senior Secondary Schools (2017 Edition, Revised 2020) an…
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Rating 3.9
Ice Is Sleeping Water Liu Meng Popular Literature and Art Publishing House · 2005 Ice Is Sleeping Water is a military-themed novel by Liu Meng following Wolf Fang. First published by Dazhong Literature and Art Press in 2005, it is r…
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Rating 4.0
An Unrivaled Scholar: The Memoirs of Jiang Tingfu Tsiang Ting-fu (T.F. Tsiang) New Star Press · 2016 This book is the Chinese translation of the oral autobiography that Jiang Tingfu (1895–1965) dictated at Columbia University in his later years after …
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The Main God Is Dead Li Guding Qidian · 2021 The Main God Is Dead is a long-form web novel by Li Guding, serialized on Qidian starting January 2021, completed at 316 chapters and roughly 1.31 mil…
The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems and Personalities cover
The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems and Personalities William Dunham Posts & Telecom Press · 2011 Mathematicians like to tell history as a list of theorems, but Dunham tells it as a book with a plot. The cleverest design of this book is its alphabe…
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Rating 4.2
Bach: A Biography of His Times, Ideas, and Books Ramón Andrés CITIC Press · 2025 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was the culmination of Baroque music, and his works are regarded as a core pillar of Western music. In 1933, Anton W…
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Rating 4.2
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2004 If The Unbearable Lightness of Being made Kundera a world-class bestselling author, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the true turning point in h…