Late Qing and Early Republic

25 books

Western China and the Yunnan-Burma Road cover
Rating 3.4
Western China and the Yunnan-Burma Road H.丹尼尔·弗赖伯格 / 滕慧婷 TIANDI PRESS · 2025 This book recounts Daniel's legendary journey across western China and the Burma Road in 1941 as a missionary. Setting out from Henan, he traveled on …
Human Rights and Women's Rights cover
Rating 4.0
Human Rights and Women's Rights Liang Qichao · 2026 This is a forward-looking essay that reveals Liang's own views on gender and marriage, and it is highly valuable. During the Hundred Days' Reform, Lia…
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk cover
Rating 4.6
Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk Lu Xun 民主与建设出版社 · 2025 As "notes of remembrance," Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk reflects various facets of Lu Xun's life in his youth and vividly traces the formation of his…
A Record of the Swordswoman's Bloodshed cover
Rating 3.2
A Record of the Swordswoman's Bloodshed Gu Mingdao · 2025 The Tale of the Blood-Shedding Swordswoman recounts the legendary experiences of the swordswoman Yin Danzi in the late Qing and early Republican era. …
The Practice of Literary Chinese and the Emergence of Modern Chinese Literature cover
Rating 4.0
The Practice of Literary Chinese and the Emergence of Modern Chinese Literature 文贵良 Peking University Press · 2025 Centered on the literary Chinese practices of ten "axial writers"—Huang Zunxian, Yan Fu, Liang Qichao, Lin Shu, Wang Guowei, Zhang Taiyan, Wu Zhihui, …
The Transformation of Narrative Mode in Chinese Fiction cover
Rating 4.8
The Transformation of Narrative Mode in Chinese Fiction Chen Pingyuan Peking University Press · 2025 Taking Chinese fiction from 1898 to 1927 as its main object of study and drawing on Western narrative theory, this book explores how the two generatio…
Tale of the Blood-Soaked Heroine cover
Rating 3.6
Tale of the Blood-Soaked Heroine Gu Mingdao · 2024 The Legend of the Blood-Stained Swordswoman recounts the extraordinary life of the swordswoman Yin Danzi in the late Qing and early Republican era. Af…
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Rating 3.4
Collected Works of Su Kan 施士洁 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early thought forms are distinctive: reli…
The Discovery of 'Society': A Study of the Concept of 'Society' in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period cover
Rating 4.3
The Discovery of 'Society': A Study of the Concept of 'Society' in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period 承红磊 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024 This book is the first systematic monograph on the rise and widespread use of the concept of "society." Approaching from the history of vocabulary and…
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Fiction cover
Rating 4.7
Selected Works of Lu Xun: Fiction Lu Xun / Lin Xianzhi Flower City Publishing House · 2024 This volume presents Lin Xianzhi's selection of the most representative and crucial pieces from The Complete Works of Lu Xun, including "A Madman's Di…
Rare Modern Collections of Jiju Poetry and Prose cover
Rating 3.4
Rare Modern Collections of Jiju Poetry and Prose 张明华 / 李晓黎 Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2024 Ji ju (line-borrowing) is a poetic and prose composition method unique to China. After the Opium War, traditional poetic and prose creation declined, …
Materials on Fiction Theory in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period cover
Rating 4.5
Materials on Fiction Theory in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period Chen Pingyuan / Xia Xiaohong · 2025 Late Qing and Early Republican Fiction Theory: Source Materials gathers nearly three hundred items of fiction-theory writing from 1897 to 1916, a peri…
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Rating 3.3
Records Left Over from Travels 郝继文 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023 Remaining Records of Xingyu is a biographical study of the Xingyu Society, a epigraphy, calligraphy, and painting society in Jiexiu, Shanxi, during th…
A Subtle Revolution: The "Old School" Poets of the Late Qing and Early Republican Era cover
Rating 4.2
A Subtle Revolution: The "Old School" Poets of the Late Qing and Early Republican Era 寇志明 / 黄乔生 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book focuses on the leading figures of three major poetic schools active between 1871 and 1914. In the author's view, Wang Kaiyun, Fan Zengxiang,…
Random Recollections of Life in the Mountains cover
Rating 4.4
Random Recollections of Life in the Mountains 高诵芬 / 徐家祯 Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 This is a living history book, chronicling a century of social transformation in China—from the late Qing dynasty to the dawn of reform and opening up…
Biography of Liang Qichao cover
Rating 4.2
Biography of Liang Qichao 吴其昌 Jilin Fine Arts Press · 2020 This biography traces the arc of Liang Qichao's life while weaving in his relationships with Kang Youwei, Yuan Shikai, Yan Fu, Sun Yat-sen, Yang Du, S…
A Study of Human Nature Discourse in Literary Criticism from the Late Qing to the May Fourth Era (1897-1927) cover
Rating 3.8
A Study of Human Nature Discourse in Literary Criticism from the Late Qing to the May Fourth Era (1897-1927) 邓瑗 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2020 This book examines the discourse of human nature in literary criticism from the late Qing to the May Fourth period. Its subject is not a static entity…
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Rating 2.2
Ten Great Official-Merchants 赵光普 Kashgar Uyghur Publishing House · 2025 This book covers figures including Fan Li, the wealthy Tao Zhu; Lü Buwei, the great merchant who managed the state; Sang Hongyang, the financial maste…
Modern Newspapers and Periodicals and the Origins and Evolution of the Poetry Revolution cover
Rating 3.9
Modern Newspapers and Periodicals and the Origins and Evolution of the Poetry Revolution 胡全章 · 2025 Modern newspapers and periodicals were the阵地 on which the Poetry Revolution movement depended for its development, yet the academic world has long pai…
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 cover
Rating 2.4
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 26, May 6, 1897 Various Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …