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The Literary Narrative of Modernity
Zhejiang University Press · 2008
This book is an academic work by the scholar Chen Le, developed from his master's studies at Zhejiang University and doctoral research at Nanyang Tech…
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 1989
Published in 1976, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism is a work by the American sociologist Daniel Bell. Together with The Coming of Post-Indus…
Natural History Culture Series
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2014
The "Natural History Culture Series" is an open-ended series planned since 2013 and released from 2014 onward by the Science and Culture Publishing Ce…
Studies in Modern Chinese Thought
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2014
Studies in Modern Chinese Thought is a monograph on modern Chinese intellectual history by Zhang Rulun, Distinguished Professor in the Department of P…
Discovering East Asia
New Star Press · 2018
The "China" and "East Asia" we take for granted are in fact relatively recent concepts: the former took shape only gradually in the Qing dynasty, whil…
The Future of Capitalism
Beijing Normal University Press · 2017
This book is a collection of essays by the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler (1874–1928), part of the "Scheler Works Series" edited by Li…
The City of Coral Trees: A Coastal Chinese Locality and the World
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2018
Quanzhou was anciently known as the "City of Coral Trees," an alias that dates from 946 (the third year of the Kaiyun era of the Later Jin), when Liu …
Painting, Color, and Light
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025
Painting, Color, and Light is a collection of art criticism by the French poet, critic, and translator Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016), published in Februar…
The Philosophy of Money (Three Volumes)
China Social Sciences Press · 2007
The Philosophy of Money is the only full-length, structurally complete major work by the German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (also rendere…
The Modern Man Who Cannot Be Alone
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
This book is an epistolary collection of essays by the contemporary sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, originally titled 44 Letters from the Liquid Modern Wo…
Studies in Modern Chinese Thought
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2014
This book is a representative work by Zhang Rulun, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Fudan University, on the history of mode…
The False Death of Thought
Nanjing University Press · 2024
The False Death of Thought is a work by the German philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk on "theory as a form of life," translated into C…
The Walter Benjamin Collection (Six-Volume Set)
Beijing Normal University Press · 2020
The Walter Benjamin Collection (Six-Volume Set) is an e-book omnibus in the "Walter Benjamin Works" series published by Beijing Normal University Pres…
Modern Japan
Yilin Press · 2014
Modern Japan is a volume in Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series, written by Christopher Goto-Jones, a professor at Leiden Univer…
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019
This book is the magnum opus of German sociologist Max Weber and a foundational text of the sociology of religion and modern social theory. Weber seek…
Max Weber: Collected Works (9-Volume Set)
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2021
Published by Imaginist and Shanghai Joint Publishing House in 2021, the nine-volume Collected Works of Max Weber continues the translation project of …
Les Fleurs du mal
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2009
Les Fleurs du mal is a poetry collection by the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), first published in 1857 and revised with additions and del…
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
CITIC Press · 2018
From Dawn to Decadence is the magnum opus of American historian Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), originally published in 2000 when the author was 93. The b…
The Fading of "Aura": The Transformation of Narrative Aesthetics in Contemporary Literature
CITIC Press · 2021
This book is a collection of research essays on contemporary Chinese literature by the scholar and writer Liang Hong. It was first published by the Cu…
Poetic Return and Aesthetic Transcendence: A Study of Modern Chinese Liberal Literature
Zhejiang University Press · 2012
This book, by Li Huoxiu, is a revised and expanded version of her doctoral dissertation at Zhejiang University, published in 2012 by Zhejiang Universi…