Intellectual

12 books

Discovering the People: The People and Politics in Historical Perspective cover
Discovering the People: The People and Politics in Historical Perspective 林红 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2017 This book attempts to examine the relationship between the people and politics within three relatively distinct historical situations. Taking "discove…
The Water of the Canglang cover
Rating 4.3
The Water of the Canglang 阎真 People's Literature Publishing House · 2001 The Water of the Canglang is a representative novel by the writer Yan Zhen. It was first published in the magazine Dangdai in 2001, and in the same ye…
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Rating 4.3
The Memory Chalet Tony Judt The Commercial Press · 2024 The Memory Chalet is a memoir dictated by the historian Tony Judt (1948–2010) after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and one…
Reverse-Turning the Red Wheel: A Retrospective of the Russian Intelligentsia's Spiritual Journey cover
Rating 4.3
Reverse-Turning the Red Wheel: A Retrospective of the Russian Intelligentsia's Spiritual Journey Jin Yan Peking University Press · 2012 This book starts from concrete cases and makes grand historical questions vivid and substantial. The two case studies of Solzhenitsyn and Gorky—one ne…
The Silent Majority cover
Rating 4.3
The Silent Majority Wang Xiaobo Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2021 The Silent Majority is one of Wang Xiaobo's most representative essay collections and, together with A Maverick Pig and My Spiritual Home, forms a thr…
Red-Haired Woman Runs at Night cover
Rating 4.2
Red-Haired Woman Runs at Night Wang Xiaobo Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2017 Red-Haired Woman Runs at Night is a novel by Wang Xiaobo, originally one piece in the novel Bronze Age and classified by the author among his "Trilogy…
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Thinkers' Home Chen Jiaying / Xu Xiao / 刀尔登 / Ye Fu / 赵越胜 CITIC Press · 2012 Thinkers' Home is a series of humanistic essays launched by CITIC Press starting in 2012, taking its name to mean "the home of thinkers" and collectin…
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The Fundamental Spirit of Chinese Culture Lou Yulie Zhonghua Book Company · 2016 This book is a record of lectures by Mr. Lou Yulie, professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, compiled from his lecture drafts o…
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Jiangnan Ge Fei Beijing October Arts & Literature Publishing House · 2019 Jiangnan is the collected edition of writer Ge Fei's "Jiangnan Trilogy" (Peach Blossom Paradise, Mountains and Rivers in a Dream, and Spring Ends in J…
Umberto Eco: Essential Works (12 Volumes) cover
Rating 3.9
Umberto Eco: Essential Works (12 Volumes) Umberto Eco Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2020 Umberto Eco: Essential Works is a Chinese-language collection of Eco's works published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, comprising 12 volumes…
Voices on Paper cover
Rating 3.7
Voices on Paper Lin Xianzhi Lijiang Publishing House · 2015 Lin Xianzhi never writes intellectuals as a warm gallery of celebrities. What concerns him is how a person refuses to keep silent before the times. In…
Drifting Ice of Thought (Lizhai Collected Writings) cover
Rating 4.1
Drifting Ice of Thought (Lizhai Collected Writings) Liu Dong Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016 Having Confucian values as a guide cannot guarantee that our lives will be flawless, but losing them condemns our lives to meaninglessness. A modern f…