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The Life I Understand
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013
The Life I Understand is a collection of essays and short pieces that Han Han released at the age of thirty, and another concentrated expression of hi…
The Moral Prospect of the Chinese People
Jinan University Press · 2008
This book is the representative work in which economist Mao Yushi discusses ethical questions through economic reasoning. First published in 1997, it …
Reflection Series, Volume One (9-Book Box Set): A Million Facets of Human History
Beijing Times Chinese Press · 2020
The "Reflection Series" is an imported humanities and social sciences series that Beijing Times Chinese Press has been publishing continuously since 2…
The Lion and the Unicorn
Beijing Yanshan Press · 2015
The Lion and the Unicorn is a collection of George Orwell's social commentary and essays, translated into Chinese by Dong Leshan, Jia Wenhao and Jia W…
Xu Zidong Lectures, Volume 3: Crossing the Line
People's Literature Publishing House · 2011
Crossing the Line is the third volume of Xu Zidong's Lectures, published by People's Literature Publishing House in 2011. The first two volumes, Rerea…
A Miscellany of Men
Methuen & Co. / Dodd, Mead and Company · 1912
A Miscellany of Men is a collection of essays by the English writer and critic G. K. Chesterton, published in 1912. The first edition was printed in L…
The Last Corner of Splendor
CITIC Press · 2012
In 2008, the global financial tsunami swept across the world. The United States injected trillions of dollars to bail out its economy, Iceland teetere…
Seeing the World with Black Eyes: The World Through the Eyes of a Democracy Peddler
Nanfang Publishing House · 2011
Seeing the World with Black Eyes: The World Through the Eyes of a Democracy Peddler is a collection of political commentary and current-affairs essays…
The Subverted Civilization: How Did We Come to This Point (Expanded Edition)
Oriental Press · 2016
This is the expanded edition of The Subverted Civilization: How Did We Come to This Point, a work of cultural criticism by the writer, translator, and…
Hillbilly Elegy
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017
J.D. Vance's grandparents moved north from the Appalachian hills of Kentucky to Middletown, Ohio, hoping to escape Appalachian poverty; there, a facto…
The Years of Lies: Selected Essays of Saramago
CITIC Press · 2014
The Years of Lies is the Chinese translation of the last work published in the lifetime of José Saramago, the Portuguese writer and 1998 Nobel laureat…
What Kind of Faith Does an Age of Doubt Need?
Oriental Press · 2013
This is an era when everyone is asking about meaning, and an era when faith is often misidentified and consumed. In this book, Xu Ben does not answer …
Woman and Labour
T. Fisher Unwin / Frederick A. Stokes · 1911
Woman and Labour (1911) is a discursive work by the South African writer and feminist Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), widely recognized as one of the key…
Latter-Day Pamphlets
Chapman and Hall · 1850
Latter-Day Pamphlets is a collection of eight polemical pamphlets by the Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), published success…
Ethnic America: A History
CITIC Press · 2011
This book is one of the representative works of American economist and social commentator Thomas Sowell; the original Ethnic America: A History was pu…
Which County Are You From? (China Story)
CITIC Press · 2013
This is a collection of essays by the historical geographer Ge Jianxiong in the "China Story" series, gathering mostly short pieces he wrote for gener…
Give Ideals a Little Time: Selected Edition
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016
Give Ideals a Little Time: Selected Edition is a best-of collection released for the fifth anniversary of the Phoenix Net Blog Report's annual blog an…
Stories Illuminate the Future: 100 Ideas on the Road to an Open Society
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2011
This book is a collection of social commentary by the writer and critic Yang Zhao. The simplified Chinese edition was published in 2011 by Guangxi Nor…
Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business
London: W. Meadows et al.; modern reprints by Kessinger Publishing et al. · 1725
Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business is a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe), published in London in 1725 under the subtitle "P…
Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher
· 1719
Dickory Cronke (full title: Dickory Cronke: The Dumb Philosopher, or, Great Britain's Wonder) is a short narrative work by Daniel Defoe, published in …