Late Qing Society

173 books

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Rating 3.2
Copyright Law of the Great Qing Anonymous · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture boasts a long and profound intellectual heritage, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary qual…
The Case of Chun'a-shi's Plot against Her Husband cover
Rating 3.2
The Case of Chun'a-shi's Plot against Her Husband 冷佛 Jilin Literature and History Publishing House · 2024 Chinese traditional culture has a long intellectual lineage, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. Early forms o…
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Rating 3.2
The Great Swindler 黄小配 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought are distinctive: r…
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Rating 2.7
Nationality Regulations of the Great Qing Anonymous · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are especially di…
The Yellow Silk Ball (1) cover
Rating 3.7
The Yellow Silk Ball (1) 汤颐琐 · 2024 Huang Xiuqiu is a late-Qing novel that breaks fresh ground and stands in a class of its own in the late-Qing literary world. Centering on the sharp, s…
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Rating 3.6
The New Story of the Stone: Complete Collection (3-Volume Set) Wu Jianren · 2024 A sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber, The New Story of the Stone was first labeled a "social novel" and later reclassified as an "ideal novel." This l…
The Yellow Silk Ball (Three) cover
Rating 3.7
The Yellow Silk Ball (Three) 汤颐琐 · 2024 Huang Xiuqiu (Part Three) is a late-Qing novel that broke new ground and set a distinctive style in the literary world of its time. Centered on the sh…
Qing Dynasty Satirical and Condemnatory Fiction: The Golden World cover
Rating 3.0
Qing Dynasty Satirical and Condemnatory Fiction: The Golden World 碧荷馆主人 · 2024 A late Qing novel that depicts the movement against the Chinese exclusion treaties, exposes the crimes of colonial persecution of Chinese laborers, an…
The Yellow Silk Ball (Two) cover
Rating 3.7
The Yellow Silk Ball (Two) 汤颐琐 · 2024 Huang Xiuqiu is a late Qing novel that breaks new ground and stands apart in the literary world of its time. Centered on the acute and sensitive socia…
The New Story of the Stone (I) cover
Rating 3.9
The New Story of the Stone (I) Wu Jianren · 2024 The New Story of the Stone (Part One) is a sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber. Originally labeled a "social novel" and later reclassified as an "ideal…
The New Story of the Stone (III) cover
Rating 3.8
The New Story of the Stone (III) Wu Jianren · 2024 The New Story of the Stone (Part Three). The New Story of the Stone is a sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber. Initially labeled "social fiction" and la…
The New Story of the Stone (II) cover
Rating 3.8
The New Story of the Stone (II) Wu Jianren · 2024 Sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber, New Story of the Stone was initially labeled a "social novel" and later reclassified as an "ideal novel." This lat…
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Rating 4.4
The Travels of Lao Can Liu E China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024 The Travels of Lao Can is the masterpiece of Liu E, a late Qing dynasty man of letters. Taking as its thread the travels of Lao Can, an itinerant phys…
Late Qing Vernacular Press and the Literary Revolution cover
Rating 4.0
Late Qing Vernacular Press and the Literary Revolution 张向东 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 This book draws on the author's recent research since 2004, consisting of papers that serve as models for applying the methodology of studying Chinese…
A Pure Confucian of the Late Qing: A Biography of Yu Yue cover
Rating 3.5
A Pure Confucian of the Late Qing: A Biography of Yu Yue 马晓坤 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2022 Yu Yue, courtesy name Yinfu and self-styled Quyuan Jushi, was a renowned late-Qing scholar, man of letters, classicist, paleographer, and calligrapher…
Nineteenth-Century Western Theater and Its Reception by Late Qing Chinese cover
Rating 3.9
Nineteenth-Century Western Theater and Its Reception by Late Qing Chinese 孙柏 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 The emergence of modern Chinese drama was closely and directly bound up with Sino-Western theatrical exchange from the late Qing through the early Rep…
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Rating 3.0
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Huawen Global History) 查尔斯·麦克法兰 / 乔国强 Sino-Culture Press · 2021 This book is an important work of Western observation and research on the Taiping Revolution and an indispensable source for contemporary study of Tai…
The Travels of Lao Can cover
Rating 4.0
The Travels of Lao Can Liu E Chongqing Publishing House · 2021 The Travels of Lao Can is the masterpiece of the late Qing writer Liu E. With the wanderings of the itinerant physician Lao Can as its thread, the nov…
Youjian Library: Officialdom Unmasked cover
Rating 4.4
Youjian Library: Officialdom Unmasked 李伯元 · 2020 The secrets of officialdom have always been shrouded in silence—until this book appeared: from the capital's powerful, the ministers, censors, and imp…
Youjian Library: Flowers in the Sea of Sin cover
Rating 4.2
Youjian Library: Flowers in the Sea of Sin 曾朴 · 2020 Along with three others, Niehai Hua (A Flower in the Sea of Sin) is one of the four great novels of social condemnation of the late Qing. Centered on …