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Rating 3.0
Offshore 圣水 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Offshore is a novel written across genres. Interweaving the author's own fate in real life with the legendary story of the Torghut Mongol tribe's east…
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Rating 3.3
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms: Glory and Decline in a Troubled Era 细语九州 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This book offers an in-depth exploration of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. During this era, numerous regional regimes emerged in Chinese …
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Rating 2.4
Tongliao Yearbook Series (7 Volumes) 中共霍林郭勒市委办公室 / 开鲁县党史地方志研究室 / 科尔沁左翼后旗档案馆 / 郑柯 / 科尔沁左翼中旗档案馆 China Culture and History Press · 2026 Tongliao Yearbook Series 2024 is sponsored by the Tongliao Municipal People's Government and compiled and published by the Party History and Local Chr…
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Rating 3.6
Hongshan Yearbook (2024) 红山区档案史志馆 / 红山区地方志编纂委员会 · 2025 As part of the Chifeng Yearbook Series 2024, this volume is sponsored by the Chifeng Municipal People's Government and compiled and published by its L…
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Rating 4.2
The Roots of Brazil 塞尔吉奥·布阿尔克·德·奥兰达 / Chen Chen Peking University Press · 2025 The author focuses on history to explore the underlying factors that determine Brazil's trajectory—the "roots" named in the title—in order to understa…
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Rating 4.0
A French Life (World Book Day Exclusive Premiere) 让-保罗·杜波瓦 / 韩一宇 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025 Set against the backdrop of the French Fifth Republic, the novel recounts in the first person the life of its protagonist, Paul Blick. Spanning from t…
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Rating 2.5
Chronicles of United Front Work in Hefei 中共合肥市委统战部 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 Anchored in the Marxist historical materialism and a correct view of Party history, and guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Charact…
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Rating 3.7
A Brief History of Economics 安德鲁・利 / 修媛媛 / Li Yang / 谢锋 China Machine Press · 2025 This short, lively little book tells a big story spanning commercial civilization and economic and social development. Taking time as its main thread,…
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Rating 3.6
Russian Social Strata and Historical Change: 1700-1900 邓沛勇 / 王目坤 / 孙慧颖 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 This book is a study of the changes among Russia's social estates from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Focusing on the emergence, development…
The Coexistence of Spear and Shield: A Study of Jiangxi Society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties cover
Rating 4.0
The Coexistence of Spear and Shield: A Study of Jiangxi Society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties 吴金成 / 崔荣根 / 薛戈 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025 This book analyzes Jiangxi society in the Ming and Qing dynasties, where political and socioeconomic "contradictions" coexisted. Since the early Ming,…
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Rating 4.5
Free Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Rebirth 艾达·费雷尔 / 林剑锋 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2024 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History, with strong endorsements from multiple Pulitzer Prize–winning…
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Rating 2.8
The Same Moonlight 李思祥 China Culture Publishing House · 2025 Under the Same Moonlight is a novel by Li Sixiang that portrays with delicate brushwork the customs and people of southern Henan and the fates of its …
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Rating 3.0
Light and Shadow under the Lattice Window: Mother Tells of the Past 张明润 China Culture and History Press · 2025 This book is a piece of folk-recorded oral history. The narrator's mother, a woman in her nineties with a lifetime of stories, recounts a past woven t…
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Rating 3.9
A Brief History of Humankind: Masters of History Yuval Noah Harari / 戴维·范德默伦 / 达尼埃尔·卡萨纳韦 / 王卉 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 Sapiens: The Masters of History is a new graphic work of knowledge by Yuval Noah Harari, the globally acclaimed young historian. The book poses a ques…
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Rating 4.4
Tea and Empire: How Taste Shaped the Modern World 埃丽卡·拉帕波特 / 宋世锋 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024 Tea has long been one of the world's most popular commodities. For centuries, the profits from growing and selling tea financed wars and drove colonia…
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Rating 3.7
A History Teacher Teaches You to Read History (Complete 2 Volumes) 王金辉 / 蔡月 Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2024 Drawing on seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade history textbooks, this book arranges historical events chronologically, divides them into chapters by e…
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Rating 4.0
Private Life: Family, the Individual and Law 劳伦斯.佛利德曼 / 赵彩凤 The Commercial Press · 2024 Private Lives: Families, Individuals, and the Law tells the story of the evolution of American family law and privacy law, examining a century-long tr…
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Rating 4.5
Epidemics and Society: A History of Plague from the Black Death 弗兰克·M.斯诺登 / 季珊珊 / 程璇 Central Compilation & Translation Press · 2023 Epidemics and Society recounts a horrifying and striking millennium of plague history. The lethal threat of microorganisms has approached humanity cou…
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Rating 3.6
Future Humans 斯考特·所罗门 / 郭怿暄 民主与建设出版社 · 2023 Longer average lifespans, shifting dietary habits, the rise of cross-border travel, and the use of drugs and contraception—how far will these physiolo…
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Rating 4.1
The King of Plagues: The Black Death and the World After It 罗伯特·S.戈特弗里德 / 鹿妍 Guangming Daily Press · 2023 A gripping work of detective-style history, this book traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of the notorious plague outbreak that swept acro…