Documentary Narrative

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Rating 2.8
In the Same Cage 殇痕之歌 · 2026 A flawless, good doctor is murdered in her own home. Kind and modest, she has no financial disputes, no complicated relationships, no romantic life, a…
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Rating 2.6
Peasants and the Land 闾成良 · 2026 Through the eyes of the younger generation, the lens focuses on the Chinese farmers represented by the author's parents, who toil silently on the land…
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Rating 2.0
An Era with a Mission 潍诘 · 2026 In his novel The Plague, Camus poses a proposition: to transfer the heat of the plague into an earthquake. The novel's protagonist, Yilin, is an earth…
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Rating 3.3
The Cancer Chain 贾鲁生 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Drawing on cancer and cancer patients as its material, this book tells stories and reflections on illness, psychology, society, culture, and the envir…
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Rating 3.9
Seeing Women 简·卡罗 / 陈拔萃 / 刘付仕贤 Shenzhen Publishing House · 2026 Why are women so often rendered invisible? Who is silencing them? Do women truly have a say over their own bodies? How much "invisible" labor do women…
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Rating 4.1
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz 埃蒂·埃尔博伊姆 / 萨拉·莱博维茨 / 高歌 民主与建设出版社 · 2026 Poland, 1944. Sara Leibowitz, a Jewish girl not yet sixteen, was forced onto a train to Auschwitz with her family. Soon after they arrived, her mother…
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Rating 2.5
Song of Battling the Epidemic 中国作家出版集团 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Since the outbreak of COVID-19, under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, the entire nation has acted with urgency …
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Rating 3.0
General Asigen 白金声 / 伍·甘珠尔扎布 Writers Publishing House · 2026 Through its account of the arduous childhood of the renowned Mongolian general Asigen, his participation in the progressive student movement and the W…
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Rating 3.6
Going to Zhenze 周淑娟 / 何圭襄 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 Zhenze in Suzhou—situated at the junction of "Wu's head and Yue's tail"—is a famous town on Lake Tai, an ancient canal town, and also a silk town and …
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Rating 4.5
A Biography of Chicago 威廉·克罗农 / 黄焰结 / 程香 / 王家银 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 This book is an environmental history of nineteenth-century Chicago. Adopting a fresh perspective, the author takes an approach in which the city and …
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Rating 3.3
The Mongolian Iron-Hoof Horse 天热 Writers Publishing House · 2026 This novel tells the story of a Mongolian iron-hoof horse and the resistance against the Japanese. In the late Qing dynasty, on the Mongolian plateau,…
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Rating 3.9
The Dead Never Lie: A Collection of Forensic Stories Zhou Yiwu Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2026 [Recommended by forensic pathologist Liu Liang and forensic pathologist Qin Ming. A distillation of more than four thousand real homicide cases into a…
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Rating 2.8
Seasons 骆禹杰 East China Normal University Press · 2026 Seasons is a family memoir woven from blood ties and the marks of an era. From the distinctive perspective of a grandson, the author Luo Yujie looks b…
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Rating 3.0
I Come from Keketuohai 阿苏 · 2026 I Come from Koktokay is a memoir written by Asu (real name Shi Yilei) in his late sixties. The book is divided into two parts, 'Hometown Youth' and 'D…
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Rating 3.2
Red Family Letters for Children 蒋永清 / 王达阳 / 孔昕 / 叶帆子 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 For the first time, Qingdao Publishing House has partnered with experts from the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committe…
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Rating 3.2
Record of Spring 廖兴友 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 All things revive, grass grows and warblers fly—it is spring. Decisive victory has been achieved in the fight against poverty. Since the 21st century,…
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Rating 4.2
The Big Year of Birdwatching (Yiwen Documentary) 马克·奥布马斯克 / 何雨珈 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2026 In North America, the "Big Year" is an extreme challenge with no judges, no prize money, and no medals: within a single year, by naked eye or binocula…
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Rating 3.8
A Great Nation Tackles Desertification 刘东生 / 中国治沙暨沙业学会 / 孙国吉 / 卢琦 Qingdao Publishing House · 2026 Organized and compiled by the China Sand-control and Sand Industry Society, Great Nation, Sand Governance offers a comprehensive review of China's pra…
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Rating 2.7
The Road Is Beneath Our Feet 连云港经济技术开发区管理委员会 / 连云港日报社 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Over the past four decades, as the frontline of Lianyungang's reform and opening-up, the Lianyungang Economic and Technological Development Zone has w…
The Gun and the Pen: An Old Soldier's Eighty Years of Memories of Home and Country cover
Rating 3.5
The Gun and the Pen: An Old Soldier's Eighty Years of Memories of Home and Country 代福德 · 2026 This is the personal memoir of a veteran in his nineties. The author, Dai Fude, was born into a poor peasant family in the sandy region of northern He…