Modern Literature

212 books

A Life of Poetry and Books: Essays by Gu Sui cover
Rating 3.9
A Life of Poetry and Books: Essays by Gu Sui 顾随 Peking University Press · 2008 This book is a selection of essays by Gu Sui (1897–1960, courtesy name Xianji, alternate sobriquet Kushui, later sobriquet Tuoan), a scholar of classi…
The "Lost Classics" Series (6 Volumes): The Radetzky March · Island · The Envoy · When You Grow Old · The Big Clock · Mephisto cover
Rating 3.9
The "Lost Classics" Series (6 Volumes): The Radetzky March · Island · The Envoy · When You Grow Old · The Big Clock · Mephisto 约瑟夫·罗特 / 克劳斯·曼 / Aldous Huxley / Kenneth Fearing / 伊塔洛·斯韦沃 / Henry James TIANDI PRESS · 2018 "Lost Classics" is a series of retranslated modern foreign literature launched by Tiandi Publishing House (produced by Babel Culture) in 2018. All six…
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Rating 4.5
Moment in Peking (Two-Volume Set) Lin Yutang Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 Moment in Peking is a novel Lin Yutang wrote in English between August 1938 and August 1939 while living in Paris; originally titled Moment in Peking,…
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Lu Xun's Stories Illustrated by Feng Zikai Lu Xun / Feng Zikai Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2019 Lu Xun's Stories Illustrated by Feng Zikai collects nine classic stories by Lu Xun—Kong Yiji, Medicine, Tomorrow, A Passing Storm, My Old Home, The Tr…
Shen Congwen's Later Years: 1948–1988 cover
Rating 4.6
Shen Congwen's Later Years: 1948–1988 Zhang Xinying Guangxi Normal University Press · 2014 This book is a biography of Shen Congwen's later years by Zhang Xinying, a professor in the Department of Chinese at Fudan University, covering the fo…
Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Their Fathers cover
Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Their Fathers 科尔姆·托宾 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 This book is a collection of literary criticism by the Irish writer Colm Tóibín, originating from a lecture he was invited to give in 2017 at Emory Un…
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Selected Works of Lu Xun Lu Xun Jilin Publishing Group Co., Ltd. · 2025 Selected Works of Lu Xun is an anthology of representative works by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature, centered on three collections—Ca…
Complete Works of Wang Zengqi (3): Prose Volume cover
Complete Works of Wang Zengqi (3): Prose Volume Wang Zengqi / Deng Jiuping Beijing Normal University Press · 1998 Complete Works of Wang Zengqi (3): Prose Volume is the third volume of the twelve-volume Complete Works of Wang Zengqi published by Beijing Normal Uni…
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Sequel to Huagai Ji Lu Xun People's Literature Publishing House · 2021 Sequel to Huagai Ji is Lu Xun's second self-compiled collection of essays, following Huagai Ji. It contains thirty-two essays written in 1926, plus on…
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Rating 3.9
The Ones Left Behind Jean-Claude Mourlevat / Anne-Laure Bondoux Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2018 Pierre-Marie is a celebrated author and Goncourt Prize winner who, for years, maintained a steady publishing rhythm. But roughly three years ago, he w…
The Golden Powder Family (Part One) cover
Rating 4.2
The Golden Powder Family (Part One) Zhang Henshui People's Literature Publishing House · 2009 The Golden Powder Family is a long serialized chapter novel by Zhang Henshui, written over five years (1927–1932) and serialized in the World Daily su…
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Inside the Great Writers of the Republic of China: The Literary Masters Minguo Wenlin Modern Press · 2018 This book is the **literature volume** of the Inside the Great Writers of the Republic of China series. The author, Minguo Wenlin, is a Beijing-based …
The Complete Prose of Yu Dafu cover
Rating 4.0
The Complete Prose of Yu Dafu Yu Dafu Harbin Publishing House · 2013 The Complete Prose of Yu Dafu is a volume in Harbin Publishing House's "Literary Classics Series." It collects prose, travel writing and autobiographi…
The Self-Selected Works of Zhou Zuoren cover
The Self-Selected Works of Zhou Zuoren Zhou Zuoren / 止庵 Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2011 The Self-Selected Works of Zhou Zuoren, edited and collated by the scholar Zhi'an and published by Beijing October Arts and Literature Publishing Hous…
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Tales of Love and Revenge in the Kuocang Mountains Wu Yue China Youth Press · 1983 Tales of Love and Revenge in the Kuocang Mountains is an epic historical novel written in secret by Wu Yue, a native of Jinyun, Zhejiang, while he was…
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The Heroes of Water Margin 孟超 / Zhang Guangyu Beijing Publishing House · 2016 The Heroes of Water Margin is a collection of character studies of figures from Water Margin, written by Meng Chao and illustrated by Zhang Guangyu. I…
Xu Zidong's Collected Works, Vol. 2: Reading Zhang Ailing Closely (Revised and Expanded Edition) cover
Xu Zidong's Collected Works, Vol. 2: Reading Zhang Ailing Closely (Revised and Expanded Edition) 许子东 Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2025 Close Readings of Eileen Chang is the culmination of Xu Zidong’s thirty years of research on Eileen Chang, now presented as an expanded and revised se…
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Rating 4.1
Ma Bole Xiao Hong China Culture and History Press · 2016 Ma Bole is Xiao Hong's only novel and her final work. Xiao Hong began conceiving it in 1939 during her time in Chongqing; after arriving in Hong Kong …
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As I Lay Dying William Faulkner Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2004 As I Lay Dying is a novel by Faulkner published in 1930 and an important work in the Yoknapatawpha saga. The novel centers on a Southern farm family: …
Bing Xin Works Collection, Illustrated Edition, Hardcover (5-Volume Set) cover
Bing Xin Works Collection, Illustrated Edition, Hardcover (5-Volume Set) Bing Xin (Xie Wanying) Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2017 The Bing Xin Works Collection, Illustrated Edition (Hardcover) is published by Beijing Institute of Technology Press as a five-volume set gathering th…