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The Winding Official Path (Trilogy: Official Virtue, Official Way, Official Heart)
· 2026
A seasoned government official can write a bureaucratic novel that captures the most secret and truest twists and turns of officialdom. The author is …
Official Career (Complete Three Volumes)
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
The author of this book, Xiao Renfu, is acclaimed as "the foremost writer of bureaucratic fiction," and the Official Career series is his representati…
Official Career II
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
The author of this book, Xiao Renfu, is hailed as "the foremost writer of office fiction," and the Official Career series is his representative work, …
Official Career III
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
The author of this book, Xiao Renfu, is hailed as "the number one writer of bureaucratic fiction," and the Career series is his representative work, w…
Official Career I
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
The author of this book, Xiao Renfu, is hailed as "the foremost writer of bureaucratic fiction," and the Career series is his magnum opus, with sales …
The Holy Monk of Mount Kōya
Chongqing Publishing House · 2025
This collection of stories by the Japanese literary master Izumi Kyōka includes five representative works—The Holy Man of Mount Kōya, The Sleeping Wat…
Li Peifu
People's Literature Publishing House · 2025
This volume collects Li Peifu's series of novels.
Thirteen Years in Reverse
Hubei Yangtze River Audio-Video Co., Ltd. · 2024
A deeply reflective narrative poem exploring the interweaving of human nature, fate, and social reality. The story begins with a dream and portrays th…
The Yellow Room
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2024
This book is a collection of poems by George Szirtes, blending contemplation and passion, delving deeply into history on the one hand and responding b…
The Balance of Power
Chongqing Publishing House · 2024
Under-the-table deals, backroom maneuvering, factional infighting—a gripping exposé of the murky side of officialdom, a maverick governing style, a cl…
Rise to Fortune
China Peace Publishing House · 2024
A chronicle of integrity pitted against evil, a family's rise, and a true portrait of the restless mentality of contemporary Chinese: the secrets betw…
French Classic Literature: Carmen
· 2024
Carmen, also known as Carmen, is a novella by the French realist writer Prosper Mérimée and is considered his masterpiece, written in 1845. The novell…
Late Qing Full-Length Science Fiction Novel: New Story of the Stone (Part Two)
· 2024
New Story of the Stone (Part Two) is a sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber, yet it differs sharply from other sequels: it carries on the realistic spir…
Late Qing Full-Length Science Fiction Novel: New Story of the Stone (III)
· 2024
The New Story of the Stone is a sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber, yet it differs markedly from other sequels: it inherits the realist spirit of Drea…
Late Qing Full-Length Science Fiction Novel: New Story of the Stone (I)
· 2024
New Story of the Stone is a sequel to Dream of the Red Chamber, yet it is strikingly different from other sequels: it inherits the realistic spirit of…
Irresponsible Interference
· 2024
Old Lai has an ugly eldest daughter. To find a satisfactory eldest son-in-law, he uses all sorts of despicable means to break up a lovely childhood sw…
Supreme Interests
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023
Set in a provincial capital in central-western China and framed as a gripping anti-corruption story, the narrative reaches across provincial, municipa…
County Magistrate Wu and His Wife
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
This book offers a panoramic portrayal of officialdom in a single county. It features not only county leaders warped in personality and tortured in co…
I Was Born a Hero
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023
To shed the label of "underdeveloped," Shi Yanan, party secretary of Wenshan, and Mayor Fang Zhenggang single-mindedly pursued GDP, pouring heart and …
Lituma in the Andes
People's Literature Publishing House · 2022
In the remote Andean town of Naccos, three people have disappeared in succession. Sergeant Lituma and his assistant Tomás Carreño are sent to investig…