Qing Anecdotes

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Empress Dowager Cixi: A Complete Biography cover
Rating 4.7
Empress Dowager Cixi: A Complete Biography Gao Yang New Star Press · 2015 Empress Dowager Cixi: A Complete Biography is a monumental work by the Taiwanese historical novelist Gao Yang, who paints a panoramic portrait of late…
Miscellaneous Notes from the Bamboo Leaf Pavilion cover
Rating 3.8
Miscellaneous Notes from the Bamboo Leaf Pavilion 姚元之 · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Its early fo…
Collected Records from the Studio of Cultivating Auspiciousness cover
Rating 3.7
Collected Records from the Studio of Cultivating Auspiciousness 吴振棫 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are especially di…
Bamboo Ends and Wood Shavings of the Qing Dynasty cover
Rating 2.3
Bamboo Ends and Wood Shavings of the Qing Dynasty Anonymous Nanhai Publication Company · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture has a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early forms o…
Anecdotes of the Three Hills and Five Gardens cover
Rating 3.5
Anecdotes of the Three Hills and Five Gardens 阚红柳 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2026 Selected anecdotes from the Qing dynasty about the Three Hills and Five Gardens, including "The Kangxi Emperor's Changchun Garden," "A Tiger in Changc…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 26): Literature cover
Rating 4.1
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 26): Literature 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of anecdotes and hearsay from the Qing dynasty. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, and periodicals, the author …
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 29): Divination and Arts cover
Rating 3.8
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 29): Divination and Arts 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and miscellaneous records. The author drew extensively on several hundred sources, including collected works, …
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 25): Writings, Nature and Principle, Classical Scholarship cover
Rating 3.8
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 25): Writings, Nature and Principle, Classical Scholarship 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and historical gleanings. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notes, and newspapers, it spans fro…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 34): Clerks and Runners, Servants, Thieves cover
Rating 4.0
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 34): Clerks and Runners, Servants, Thieves 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of anecdotes and historical gleanings from the Qing dynasty. Drawing on several hundred sources, including collected works, notebooks, a…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 35): Swindlers and Beggars cover
Rating 4.0
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 35): Swindlers and Beggars 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and historical gleanings. Drawing on several hundred collections of Qing prose, notebooks, and newspapers, the…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 31): Monks and Priests, Gambling cover
Rating 3.8
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 31): Monks and Priests, Gambling 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and miscellaneous records. Drawing on several hundred collections of Qing authors' writings, notebooks, and ne…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 30): Superstitions cover
Rating 4.0
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 30): Superstitions 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and historical lore. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, and newspapers, the author co…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 28): Connoisseurship cover
Rating 3.9
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 28): Connoisseurship 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and historical gleanings. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, and newspapers, the auth…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 27): Arts cover
Rating 4.0
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 27): Arts 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and historical gleanings. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, and newspapers, the auth…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 33): Courtesans cover
Rating 3.9
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 33): Courtesans 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of anecdotes and minor records from the Qing dynasty. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, and newspapers, the au…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 39): Clothing and Food cover
Rating 4.0
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 39): Clothing and Food 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of anecdotes and lore of the Qing dynasty. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, newspapers, and other sources, fr…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 38): Objects, Boats and Carriages cover
Rating 3.8
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 38): Objects, Boats and Carriages 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of anecdotes and lore of the Qing dynasty. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, newspapers, and other sources, fr…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 23): Emotions, Illness, Mourning and Sacrifice cover
Rating 3.9
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 23): Emotions, Illness, Mourning and Sacrifice 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and miscellaneous records. Drawing on hundreds of Qing-era collected works, notebooks, and newspapers, the aut…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 36): Animals cover
Rating 3.8
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 36): Animals 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of anecdotes and miscellaneous records from the Qing dynasty. Drawing on several hundred collections of Qing writings, notebooks and new…
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 32): Music, Drama, Actors cover
Rating 4.1
Classified Anecdotes of the Qing Dynasty (Volume 32): Music, Drama, Actors 徐珂 · 2026 A compilation of Qing dynasty anecdotes and historical gleanings. Drawing on several hundred sources—collected works, notebooks, and newspapers of the…