Historical Excavation

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The Chancellor and the Regent cover
The Chancellor and the Regent Cuslaa "Zai Zhi Tian Xia" (Governing the Realm) is a long-form historical time-travel novel by the web author cuslaa (real name Hu Changle, known online as "…
The History of Everyday Life in Yan'an (1937–1947) cover
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The History of Everyday Life in Yan'an (1937–1947) Zhu Hongzhao Guangxi Normal University Press · 2007 From 1937 to 1947, the small northern Shaanxi town of Yan'an was shaped into a revolutionary sacred site and, invisibly, came to regulate the life cou…
The Gases of the Atmosphere: The History of Their Discovery cover
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The Gases of the Atmosphere: The History of Their Discovery Ramsay, William, 1852-1916 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors cover
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A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors Fovargue, Stephen, -1775 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
History of Phosphorus cover
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History of Phosphorus Farber, Eduard, 1892-1969 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Book of the Damned cover
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The Book of the Damned Fort, Charles, 1874-1932 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I cover
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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought cover
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Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Tree of Life cover
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The Tree of Life 西奥多·W.皮奇 / 邢立达 / 李锐媛 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2026 In this book, the author selects more than 230 "trees of life" from the 16th century to the present, including Darwin's manuscripts, and uses the chan…
Embellishing the Grand Enterprise: The Formation and Early Transmission of the Text of the Book of Han cover
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Embellishing the Grand Enterprise: The Formation and Early Transmission of the Text of the Book of Han 陈君 Peking University Press · 2025 This book offers a detailed examination of the formation and early transmission of the text of the Hanshu, seeking to uncover the complex and subtle r…
A Chronological Compilation of Historical Materials on Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism, Volume 1: 1949–1957 cover
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A Chronological Compilation of Historical Materials on Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism, Volume 1: 1949–1957 Wu Jun / 肖进 East China Normal University Press · 2024 The Chronicle of Materials on Contemporary Chinese Literary Criticism comprises 12 volumes totaling 5.5 million characters, recording in chronological…
Turtle Concealment cover
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Turtle Concealment 刘滴川 民主与建设出版社 · 2023 Gui Zang is an "accessible academic popular reader" centered on oracle bone script that goes on to interpret traditional Chinese culture, the first vo…
E-Textual Research Stories: From the Early Qing to the Republic of China cover
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E-Textual Research Stories: From the Early Qing to the Republic of China 艾俊川 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 According to the formulation "philosophical principles, evidential research, and literary craft," evidential research (kaoju) occupies one of three di…
Foucault: Revised Translation cover
Rating 4.7
Foucault: Revised Translation 吉尔·德勒兹 / 于奇智 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 Deleuze and Foucault admired, appreciated, and respected each other and were philosophically interdependent. Deleuze's Foucault is a portrait of Fouca…
Bian Que's Separate Pulse: Rethinking the History of Early Chinese Medicine cover
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Bian Que's Separate Pulse: Rethinking the History of Early Chinese Medicine 李建民 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023 This book rewrites the cultural history of early Chinese medicine. What is Chinese medicine capital? It refers to ancient medical resources in modern …
On the History of Acupuncture Thought in China cover
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On the History of Acupuncture Thought in China 张树剑 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2023 This book is divided into two parts. Part One, "Concepts and Theories," focuses on theoretical interpretation, mainly employing the method of archaeol…
Tang Nuo's Classics of Writing and Reading (2-Volume Set) cover
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Tang Nuo's Classics of Writing and Reading (2-Volume Set) 唐诺 Jiuzhou Press · 2020 This collection of Tang Nuo's works contains two titles: 1. The Story of Reading—bookman Tang Nuo's evolution as a reader, confronting the essential p…
From the Development History of Human Thought, Volume 2 of 2 cover
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From the Development History of Human Thought, Volume 2 of 2 Casimir, R. (Rommert), 1877-1957 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres cover
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Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres Symmes, John Cleves, 1780-1829 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Æsculapian Labyrinth Explored; Or, Medical Mystery Illustrated cover
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The Æsculapian Labyrinth Explored; Or, Medical Mystery Illustrated William Taplin Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …