Literary Beauty

19 books

Chinese Classics Series (I) (6-Volume Set) cover
Rating 3.1
Chinese Classics Series (I) (6-Volume Set) Yuan Tangxin / 谢志强 Huayi Publishing House · 2010 This book is the first set of the Chinese Classics Series, a six-volume set edited by Yuan Tangxin and Xie Zhiqiang and published by Huayi Publishing …
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Rating 3.4
Describing Great Virtue: A Study of the Song and Zan Genres Before the Tang 张志勇 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 The book In Praise of Illustrious Virtue: A Study of the Song and Zan Genres Before the Tang is the final output of the National Social Science Fund l…
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Rating 2.8
Preface to the Treatise on Plum Blossoms 王思任 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive: religious th…
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Rating 3.0
Selected Drafts from Cuiqu 周瑛 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive: religious th…
Selected Sketches by Sixteen Masters, Chosen and Appraised by the Cuiyu Studio cover
Rating 3.8
Selected Sketches by Sixteen Masters, Chosen and Appraised by the Cuiyu Studio 陆云龙 · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long intellectual lineage, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Its early in…
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Rating 2.8
Collection of Cui Dongzhou 崔桐 · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early though…
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Rating 3.5
Collection of Cuiping 张以宁 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are particularl…
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Rating 4.5
Collection of Talent and Refinement 韦縠 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought are especially dis…
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Rating 4.1
Collected Works of Sima Xiangru Zhang Peiheng / An Pingqiu / 马樟根 / 费振刚 Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2023 Sima Xiangru, courtesy name Changqing, childhood name Quanzi, later renamed Xiangru out of admiration for Lin Xiangru. A native of Chengdu, Shu Comman…
An Annotated Catalogue of Collected Works of Buddhist Monks Through the Ages (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.3
An Annotated Catalogue of Collected Works of Buddhist Monks Through the Ages (2 Volumes) 李舜臣 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 'Separate collections of Buddhist authors' refers to collections of poems, prose, or lyrics composed by Buddhist monks, and these are the works that b…
The Pinnacle of Classical Prose (Volume 1) cover
Rating 4.5
The Pinnacle of Classical Prose (Volume 1) Wu Diaohou / 吴乘权 Liaohai Publishing House · 2025 The classical Chinese prose selected in this book consists mainly of prose, with some verse and parallel prose included as well. In the pre-Qin sectio…
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Rating 4.5
Hymns and Eulogies Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Also written “Songzan.” A literary genre; the combined name of “song” and “zan.” “Song” is writing used for praise; “zan” was originally used for eulo…
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Rating 2.6
Objects and Colors Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Spring and autumn alternate; yin and yang, grief and comfort. When the colors of things stir, the heart too is shaken. When yang energy sprouts, ants …
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Rating 4.6
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Translated and Annotated Liu Xie / Wang Yunxi / 周锋 Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020 The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is a monumental work of classical Chinese literary theory and criticism. In fifty chapters it discusses t…
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 cover
Rating 3.7
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers cover
Rating 3.8
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 cover
Rating 3.4
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Bright Moon of Song Times Entrusts the Spring Breeze: Wishing to Win Liu Qi's Heart cover
Rating 3.7
The Bright Moon of Song Times Entrusts the Spring Breeze: Wishing to Win Liu Qi's Heart 流珠 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2019 The book is titled May I Win Liu Qi's Heart, yet it is not a book only about Liu Yong; "Liu Qi" stands for poets under the sun. Although the selected …
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Rating 3.3
Appreciating the Fu Li Shihua China Chang'an Publishing House · 2025 China is a nation of great literature with a long literary history. Counting from ancient myths and folk ballads, Chinese literature already spans tho…