Social Realism

72 books

The Common Man's Counterattack cover
The Common Man's Counterattack Xiaoqi Fujian People's Publishing House · 2014 The Common Man's Counterattack is a long urban novel by the web author Xiaoqi Xiao ("Cavalry Officer"), serialized on 17K.com from about May 2013 and …
The Business World cover
The Business World Qian Shichang / Ou Weixiong People's Literature Publishing House · 1994 The Business World is a novel co-authored by Qian Shichang and Ou Weixiong, published by People's Literature Publishing House in 1994. Set against the…
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Rating 3.5
The Skyscraper Chen Xue Guangxi Normal University Press · 2017 On the outskirts of Taipei stands a skyscraper, a vast ore-monolith of a building gazing across at Taipei 101 from afar. All kinds of people live in i…
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Bambino! Volume 15 Sekiya Tetsuji Sharp Point Press · 2011 This is Volume 15 of Bambino! (Japanese title バンビ〜ノ!), also the final volume of the first part. The protagonist Tomo Shogo (Tomo) is a university stud…
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma - L'etoile, Vol. 8 cover
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma - L'etoile, Vol. 8 Michiko Ito / Zhaoshi Daji / Yūto Tsukuda / Shun Saeki / Yuki Morisaki Tong Li Publishing · 2021 Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma - L'etoile is an official spin-off of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, starring Kojiro Shinomiya, known as the "Magician o…
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The Fortunes of Oliver Horn Francis Hopkinson Smith The Fortunes of Oliver Horn is a novel published in 1902 by the American writer, painter, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915). Set in the…
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The Black and Day Trilogy Liu Haofeng China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House · 2011 The Black and Day Trilogy is a novel by Liu Haofeng, published by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing House in October 2011 as a t…
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Bambino! Vol. 1 Sekiya Tetsuji Sharp Point Press · 2005 Bambino! (Japanese title バンビ〜ノ!, "bambino" meaning "child" or "rookie" in Italian) is a cooking-themed seinen manga by Tetsuji Sekiya. It has been ser…
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Bambino! Vol. 4 Sekiya Tetsuji Sharp Point Press · 2006 This volume is Part 1, Volume 4 of Bambino! (Japanese title: Bambino!, Taiwanese Sharp Point edition Volume 4). Bambino! is a culinary manga by Teiji …
The Complete Wuxia Novels of Bai Yu cover
The Complete Wuxia Novels of Bai Yu 宫白羽 Beiyue Literature & Art Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 1992 This boxed set is the Complete Wuxia Novels of Bai Yu, compiled and published by Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House, gathering the wuxia ficti…
The Underworld Trilogy (Jianghu, Jianghu Rivalry, and Fully Wild) cover
The Underworld Trilogy (Jianghu, Jianghu Rivalry, and Fully Wild) Liao Wumo Tuqiu Publishing House · 2016 The Underworld Trilogy is an omnibus of Liao Wumo's "jianghu" series, collecting three novels: Jianghu, Jianghu Rivalry, and Fully Wild. In 2003 Liao …
The Factory Flower Goes South: My Womb, Your Child cover
Rating 2.6
The Factory Flower Goes South: My Womb, Your Child 老痴 天津博集新媒科技有限公司 · 2026 Three generations of entanglement, a twisted web of fate—one book captures the joys and sorrows of ordinary people! A single surrogacy agreement draws…
Chronicles of the Flower Kingdom cover
Rating 3.0
Chronicles of the Flower Kingdom 云间花也怜侬 · 2025 This book was written to admonish and warn. Its descriptions are so vivid that the characters seem to appear before one's eyes and their voices to rin…
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Rating 4.5
Xiao E 松友梅 Peking University Press · 2025 Early Beijing Dialect Rare Classics: Collation and Research (and the Early Beijing Dialect Digitization Project) is a research outcome of Peking Unive…
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Rating 3.0
Chasing the Murderer 乾离 · 2026 In the late autumn of 2003, a string of rainy-night robbery-murders struck Xicheng. Most victims were laid-off workers. Detective Liu Yuzhu ultimately…
Collected Works of Wang Huo (Volume Two): Three Years of Thunderbolts; Firelight in the Dense Fog cover
Rating 4.2
Collected Works of Wang Huo (Volume Two): Three Years of Thunderbolts; Firelight in the Dense Fog 王火 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The Collected Works of Wang Huo comprises ten volumes in twelve books and gathers many of Mr. Wang Huo's representative works. Volume One is the novel…
Crime Investigation Division: The Final Mystery of Crime: Finale (Expanded New Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
Crime Investigation Division: The Final Mystery of Crime: Finale (Expanded New Edition) Liang Miaomiao Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The original novel of the TV drama *Feng Guo Liu Hen*, from the "Corpse Case Investigation Section" series! White Lover × Ancient Tree Wronged Soul × …
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Rating 3.9
Lotus Blossom Fall Mu Shiying · 2025 Set against the backdrop of wartime, *Lotus Falls* tells the story of a poor man and woman who have lost their families to war and drift from place to…
Anecdotes of an Auxiliary Police Officer cover
Rating 2.7
Anecdotes of an Auxiliary Police Officer 骆丁光 · 2025 In the bustling, noisy village of Wuwan, there is a group of people who, in plain clothes or auxiliary police uniforms, move through the streets and a…
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Rating 2.4
Where the Clear Stream Returns MYHD · 2025 Lin Yanqiu sat in a three-wheeled motorcycle heading from the county town to Qingxi Village, her backside so jolted she felt it might fall apart. The …