Reading Essays

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The Collected Essays of Ma Yan cover
The Collected Essays of Ma Yan Ma Yan New Star Press · 2012 The Collected Essays of Ma Yan is a selection of essays by the poet and essayist Ma Yan (1979–2010) from her brief life, edited by Qin Xiaoyu and publ…
This Is the Best Chinese Language Book: Essays Volume cover
This Is the Best Chinese Language Book: Essays Volume Ye Kai Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014 The third volume of the series This Is the Best Chinese Language Book, edited by Ye Kai and published by Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House i…
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Rating 4.2
Love Is a Mountain of Notes 苏美 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 Love Is a Mountain of Notes is a collection of reading essays by Su Mei, a Qingdao writer and teacher of German literature at Ocean University of Chin…
Gods on My Bookshelf: 72 Scholars on the Books That Shaped Their Lives cover
Rating 3.6
Gods on My Bookshelf: 72 Scholars on the Books That Shaped Their Lives Liu Xiaolei / Liu Cixin / Liu Yu / 吴思 Shanxi People's Publishing House · 2015 This is a collection of reading essays by more than seventy contemporary Chinese scholars, edited by Liu Xiaolei, an editor in the supplement departme…
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Rating 3.6
Reading Ruined Me Victor Wang CITIC Press · 2012 Reading Ruined Me is Wang Qiang's first collection of bookish essays and his signature work, repeatedly expanded and reissued. The book gathers his no…
The Taste of Books cover
Rating 3.9
The Taste of Books Wang Dingjun Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 The Taste of Books is a collection of reading reflections by the essayist Wang Dingjun, published in 2015 by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publis…
Independence Day (Collector's Edition, 3 Volumes): A Study to Resist the World + Cinema to Triple Your Life + The Food of Sunrise cover
Independence Day (Collector's Edition, 3 Volumes): A Study to Resist the World + Cinema to Triple Your Life + The Food of Sunrise 魏小河 / Mu Weier / Chen Yuhui SDX Joint Publishing Company Life Bookstore Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2016 Independence Day is a lifestyle and culture brand launched by Shenghuo Shudian for young people living alone, advocating "personal independence" and "…
Tang Nuo's "Reading Quartet" (The Story of Characters · The Story of Reading · Names of the World · The Age of Readers) cover
Tang Nuo's "Reading Quartet" (The Story of Characters · The Story of Reading · Names of the World · The Age of Readers) 唐诺 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2011 The "Reading Quartet" is the collective name for four collections of reading essays by the Taiwanese writer Tang Nuo, written in the role of a "profes…
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The Reading History of a Scholar Hong Zicheng Peking University Press · 2017 The Reading History of a Scholar is a collection of reading essays by Hong Zicheng, a professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature a…
Ji Xianlin's Writing Lessons for Children: Reading and Writing cover
Ji Xianlin's Writing Lessons for Children: Reading and Writing Ji Xianlin / Wu Guanzhong CITIC Press · 2018 Reading and Writing is one volume of the seven-volume series Ji Xianlin's Writing Lessons for Children, selecting for primary and middle school studen…
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Reading at Ease Until the End of Time Zhu Xiaodi China Renmin University Press · 2011 Reading at Ease Until the End of Time is another collection of reading essays by the Chinese American writer Zhu Xiaodi, following Idle Books, Idle Ta…
Marginalia by the Bookshelf: A Bustle, a Chill cover
Marginalia by the Bookshelf: A Bustle, a Chill 彭忠富 Hubei Jin Gu Chuan Qi Media Group · 2016 Marginalia by the Bookshelf: A Bustle, a Chill
All Book Lovers cover
All Book Lovers Shen Changwen Yilin Press · 2013 This book is a selection of interviews and articles on publishing that appeared during the first five years of Shanghai Book Review, the Sunday cultur…
A Pillow of Bookish Dreams cover
A Pillow of Bookish Dreams 朱航满 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 A Pillow of Bookish Dreams is a collection of recent reading essays by the prose writer Zhu Hangman, built entirely around one word: books—buying, gif…
My Reading (1–7) cover
Rating 1.9
My Reading (1–7) Leung Man-tao Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 My Reading (1–7) is the collected text of Reading Eight Minutes, a Phoenix Television book program hosted by Leung Man-tao, gathering the contents of …
The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo, Volume 1: The Pleasure of Thinking cover
The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo, Volume 1: The Pleasure of Thinking Wang Xiaobo Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2006 Volume 1 of The Complete Works of Wang Xiaobo is the essay volume, titled The Pleasure of Thinking, collecting a group of important intellectual essay…
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Rating 4.0
A Pond of Sparse Shadows, Falling Cold Blossoms 张宗子 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2012 A Pond of Sparse Shadows, Falling Cold Blossoms is a collection of cultural essays by the Chinese-American writer Zhang Zongzi, published in September…
I Read (1–6) Collection: Leung Man-tao's Eight Minutes of Reading cover
I Read (1–6) Collection: Leung Man-tao's Eight Minutes of Reading Leung Man-tao / Phoenix Books Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 This collection includes the complete contents of volumes 1 through 6 of the I Read series, drawn from the manuscripts of the Phoenix Television readi…
What a Wonderful Thing Reading Is cover
Rating 4.5
What a Wonderful Thing Reading Is Zhang Xinying Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2017 What a Wonderful Thing Reading Is is a collection of essays on reading written by Zhang Xinying, a professor in the Department of Chinese at Fudan Uni…
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Rating 3.5
Reading Is a Quiet Self-Awakening Hermann Hesse Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025 “No book in the world can bring you good luck, but they can quietly make you yourself.” This much-quoted line circulating online comes from Hesse. And…