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Cotton Illustrations: Chinese-English Bilingual
Foreign Languages Press · 2024
During the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong in the Qing dynasty, agriculture was emphasized and farming promoted, with the richest body of pl…
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2023
This book is a classic work in legal history on sexual offenses. Drawing on a wealth of legal-historical sources from the Tang dynasty onward, it focu…
Red Chamber Compendium: Shadow of the Dream of the Red Chamber
· 2025
The Shadow of the Dream of the Red Chamber, by Yun Cha Wai Shi (or, some say, Gu Taiqing), is one of the many sequels to Dream of the Red Chamber. Com…
Cao Xueqin
China Culture and History Press · 2026
Cao Xueqin is the author of the celebrated Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. His ethnic identity is a matter of scholarly dispute: some hold tha…
Qianlong's Money Bag
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
This book uses the salt industry in the Qianlong reign as its entry point to reveal the complex interactions between salt merchants and Emperor Qianlo…
Living Up to the Hometown: Qing Dynasty Gentry-Merchants and Local Charitable Deeds
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2026
This book is a work of social and charitable history that examines in depth the local philanthropic activities of the gentry-merchant class in the Qin…
Imperially Endorsed Cases of the Qing Dynasty
China Democracy and Legal System Publishing House · 2026
The imperial-endorsement cases selected for this book involve not only the interplay of natural justice, state law, and human feeling, but also the co…
The Cases of Lord Yu
· 2025
Yu Gong An (The Cases of Lord Yu) is a chivalric detective novel completed in the early Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty. Also known as The Strange Cas…
Haunted House
Qunzhong Publishing House · 2025
This is a mystery that shook the Qing court and the wider world. During the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty, in the household of Chancellor Zhang i…
Biographies of Extraordinary People from North and South (Complete Four Volumes)
· 2026
Tales of Extraordinary Figures North and South (Complete in Four Volumes)
Biographies of Extraordinary People from North and South (Volume One)
· 2025
During the Daoguang and Xianfeng reigns of the Qing dynasty, the eminent Shaolin monk Haichuan leaves the temple to wander. At Shousheng Nunnery and Q…
A Study of Official Ages and Actual Ages of Civil Examination Literati in the Qing Dynasty
Peking University Press · 2025
This book examines and distinguishes the official ages and actual ages of 1,091 Qing dynasty examination candidates, covering 1,294 person-times, and …
The Cases of Lord Lan (Part Two)
· 2024
This is a classical Chinese court-case novel, The Blue Lord's Cases (also known as The Blue Lord's Strange Cases, Occasional Records of Court Cases, a…
The Cases of Lord Lan (Part One)
· 2024
This is a collection of classical Chinese crime-case tales. Lan Gong An, also known as The Strange Cases of Lord Lan, Occasional Notes on Cases, and T…
Notes from the Yuewei Cottage
Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought have striking cha…
Miscellaneous Words from the Countryside
Nanhai Publication Company · 2024
Chinese traditional culture has a long and profound intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality.…
A Brief Register of Yanlan
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive,…
Record of Flower Affairs at Yan Terrace
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive,…
Miscellaneous Records from the Howling Pavilion
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early intell…
Continued Records from the Howling Pavilion
· 2024
Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early intell…