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The Institutions of Reproduction
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025
Why must people marry? Why should children be raised jointly by both parents? These things that seem "only natural" actually rest on a set of man-made…
The Sociology-Philosophy Connection
Gezhi Publishing House, Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2024
The Sociology-Philosophy Connection is a collection of essays by the Argentine-Canadian physicist and philosopher Mario Bunge (1919–2020). The origina…
World History in "Small Things" (2-Volume Set: The Royal Hunt in Eurasia · Green Gold)
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018
This is a two-volume set in the "Oracle" series of the Social Sciences Academic Press, using two seemingly insignificant "small things" as entry point…
1517: The Year of Wonders in Global Perspective
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2025
On October 31, 1517, the theology professor Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, an act later s…
The Ming Tycoon
The Ming Dynasty Tycoon is a historical time-travel novel by the online author Delicious Borscht, first serialized on Qidian Chinese Network under the…
Qin Hui & Jin Yan Works Set (5 Volumes)
Oriental Press · 2014
This is a five-volume collection published by Oriental Press in 2014, gathering representative scholarly works by Qin Hui and Jin Yan on Chinese rural…
The Age of Unreason: Mastering the Organization of the Future
Huaxia Publishing House · 2000
This book is the Chinese translation of The Age of Unreason by the British management thinker Charles Handy. Handy argues that we no longer live in an…
Red-Powdered Ladies of the Inner Chambers: Women's Lives and Literature
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2017
Writing about women in ancient China, one most easily falls into two clichés: either the "oppressed silent" or the "elegant legend of talented ladies …
The History of the French Revolution
The Commercial Press · 2011
This book is a general history of the French Revolution written for the general reader by the French historian Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), originally …
Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure
The Commercial Press · 2010
This book is the magnum opus of the British anthropologist Edmund R. Leach. Originally published in 1954 as Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Stu…
How Long Is the Emperor's Shadow?
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2016
How Long Is the Emperor's Shadow? is a collection of historical essays by Yang Nianqun, a historian and professor at the Institute of Qing History, Re…
Habitus: You Can't Change Where You Come From, but You Can Remake Yourself
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
Have you ever felt out of place in a certain setting? Do you keep striving yet always feel that something is missing? The German writer and social obs…
The Future of Industrial Man
China Machine Press · 2019
The Future of Industrial Man is the first volume of Peter Drucker's "Industrial Society Trilogy," which, together with The Concept of the Corporation …
Aesthetics of the Townsman: Art and Society in the Tokugawa Era
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2022
Aesthetics of the Townsman is the representative work of the Japanese aesthetician and thinker Abe Jiro, originally titled Art and Society in the Toku…
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
CITIC Press · 2020
The Pursuit of Power is one of the representative works of the American historian William H. McNeill, a founder of global history studies. The English…
Selected Works of Fei Xiaotong (One Slipcase, Twelve Titles)
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2020
Selected Works of Fei Xiaotong (One Slipcase, Twelve Titles) was published by SDX Joint Publishing Company in December 2020. It collects twelve repres…
The Wisdom of Success in Journey to the West 2: Entering the Game
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025
If you treat Journey to the West as nothing more than a monster-bashing level-up myth, you can read it a hundred times and never taste its flavor; the…
Ango's Talks on Life
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019
Ango's Talks on Life is a collection of essays and commentary by Sakaguchi Ango, a leading figure of Japan's Buraiha, or Decadent, school. The Chinese…
After the Machine Age: Life, Redefined
CITIC Press · 2018
After the Machine Age: Life, Redefined is co-edited by Hu Yong, professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University, and Wang…
From the Crippled Sick Man of Asia to an East Asian Giant: The Story of Japan's Rise You Should Know
CITIC Press · 2015
This book tells the story of Japan's turn from the "crippled sick man" of the mid-nineteenth century to an East Asian power, from the perspective of C…