Social Reality

35 books

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Rating 2.6
Selected Plays of Xinyu 陈岳文 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Selected Plays of Xinyu gathers several fine operatic works by the playwright, spanning historical plays, modern plays, period costume plays, and shor…
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Rating 3.5
Demon in the Snow 华不注 天津博集新媒科技有限公司 · 2026 A life-and-death duel between two medical geniuses, a world war without smoke... In 1939, at the Rockefeller Institute, the cold storage vault preserv…
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Rating 3.0
Hexagon 玛珊达 / 杨国影 Lijiang Publishing House · 2026 Hexagon is a polyphonic symphony of women's fates. Taking childbirth as its entry point, the work draws on the lives of six pregnant women before and …
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Rating 3.6
Deep Water: Chinese-Style Business 郭晓顿 · 2026 Water takes no fixed shape, yet adapts to whatever vessel holds it. People are like water too: they must learn to "take the shape of what contains the…
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Rating 3.6
The Knack: My Days as a Labor Contractor 郭晓顿 · 2026 Every trade has its tricks, and construction has the deepest tricks and the hardest connections to manage. Gateways is a work of social realist fictio…
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Rating 3.1
A Record of the Red Silkworm Weaving Grief Gu Mingdao · 2025 The Tale of the Red Silkworm Weaving Grief tells a story full of twists and turns. It contains the protagonist's sorrow, adventures, and emotional ent…
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Rating 4.5
New Tales Under the Lamplight (Ten Great Forbidden Books of Ancient China) 瞿佑 · 2025 Jian Deng Xin Hua (New Tales Under the Lamplight) is a collection of classical Chinese short stories by Qu You of the Ming dynasty. Its tales mostly c…
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Rating 3.4
Workshop on Frontier Issues in Applied Ethics 3 王露璐 / 张燕 / 陶涛 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025 Applied ethics is currently the most rapidly developing field of ethical research. To a certain extent, it is precisely thanks to applied ethics' clos…
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Rating 2.5
Adolescent Anemia 张剑敏 · 2025 Adolescent Anemia is a novella by Zhang Jianmin that portrays, with delicate strokes, the stories of two young people caught in different life difficu…
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Rating 4.2
Stumbling Between Two Stars: Selected Poems of Vallejo 塞萨尔·巴略霍 / Zhao Zhenjiang Peking University Press · 2025 In the avant-garde poetry scene of Spanish America, César Vallejo is a landmark figure. His poetry is marked by a distinct national and indigenist cha…
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Rating 3.6
Workshop on Frontier Issues in Applied Ethics: Volume 1 王露璐 / 张燕 / 陶涛 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 Applied ethics is currently the fastest-growing field of ethical research. To a certain extent, it is precisely because applied ethics is closely tied…
Workshop on Frontier Issues in Applied Ethics: Volume 2 cover
Rating 3.5
Workshop on Frontier Issues in Applied Ethics: Volume 2 王露璐 / 张燕 / 陶涛 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 Applied ethics is currently the fastest-growing field in ethics. To a considerable extent, it is precisely because applied ethics is closely intertwin…
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Rating 2.9
Just Like a Young Married Couple 刘文华 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Just Married, Still Young is one of the “Acute Angle” series, collecting more than ten novellas and short stories by Liu Wenhua published in important…
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Rating 4.0
Qing Dynasty Collection of Strange Tales: Random Records of Night Talks (Volume 3) 和邦额 · 2024 Yetan Suilu is a Qing dynasty collection of classical-language short stories in the biji style, including tales of the marvelous and tales of the stra…
Qing Dynasty Collection of Strange Tales: Random Records of Night Talks (Volume 1) cover
Rating 4.0
Qing Dynasty Collection of Strange Tales: Random Records of Night Talks (Volume 1) 和邦额 · 2024 Yetan Suilu is a Qing dynasty collection of classical-language short stories in the biji style, including tales of the marvelous and tales of the stra…
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Rating 2.7
True Love 天马 Universal Publishing House · 2023 The novel True Love is a widely read and deeply engaging work. Centered on the legendary life of the protagonist Amu, it unfolds a twisting, turning f…
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Rating 3.7
Mission: Prequel to The Black and White Path 朱维坚 Writers Publishing House · 2023 A police chief with a heart full of passion, through the snow, rain, wind and frost of tumultuous years. The trouble of an impure force, the lack of o…
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Rating 4.0
Three Hundred Yuan Qu: Condensed Edition 张根云 The Commercial Press · 2023 Yuan opera, a literary and performing art form popular in the Yuan dynasty, encompasses both zaju (variety plays) and sanqu (colloquial songs). A bril…
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Rating 4.7
Marx's Theory of Alienation 伯特尔·奥尔曼 / 王贵贤 Beijing Normal University Press · 2023 Bertell Ollman's Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society is a major work on Marx's dialectics, theory of alienation, and conception…
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Rating 4.2
Water Margin for Young Readers: Song Jiang the Protector of Righteousness Bao Pengshan Qingdao Publishing House · 2023 Youth Reads Water Margin is a series created by Bao Pengshan—a featured speaker on CCTV's Lecture Room and one of contemporary China's foremost commen…