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Research on the Change and Transformation of China's Cotton Textile Industry (1949 to Present) cover
Rating 3.4
Research on the Change and Transformation of China's Cotton Textile Industry (1949 to Present) 潘春苗 / 曹剑飞 Enterprise Management Publishing House · 2026 This book first traces the development of China's cotton textile industry in stages. The first stage is "standing up": the establishment of China's co…
Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou cover
Rating 4.3
Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou 麦哲维 / 沈正邦 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 In 1825, during the Daoguang reign, Ruan Yuan founded a academy on Yuexiu Hill (then called Yuexiu Shan) north of Guangzhou city—Xuehaitang, the Hall …
How Fate Is Formed cover
Rating 3.0
How Fate Is Formed 毕寅生 · 2026 How Destiny Takes Shape is an autobiographical work into which Mr. Bi Yinsheng poured his heart. It is not only a document recording personal growth a…
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: Sons (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.2
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: Sons (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) Pearl S. Buck / 郭怀恩 · 2026 Sons is the second volume of The Good Earth trilogy, opening as Wang Lung lies dying. He chooses to die in the earthen house of his ancestors, in the …
By the Quiet Fujiang River (Volume Two) cover
Rating 2.8
By the Quiet Fujiang River (Volume Two) 陈先敏 · 2026 This work depicts the bumpy life path the protagonist stumbles along through wind and rain. It records true stories that took place between 1946 and 1…
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: A House Divided (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.0
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: A House Divided (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) Pearl S. Buck / 唐景澜 · 2026 The third volume of The Good Earth trilogy and the final chapter of the Wang family saga, The House Divided centers on Wang Yuan, son of Wang the Tige…
From Wanli to Kangxi: The Eighty Years of Ming's Fall and Qing's Rise (3-Volume Set) cover
Rating 3.5
From Wanli to Kangxi: The Eighty Years of Ming's Fall and Qing's Rise (3-Volume Set) 余焉 Beijing Institute of Technology Press · 2026 From Wanli to Kangxi: The Eighty Years That Saw the Ming Fall and the Qing Rise (3 vols.) covers the eighty years of the Ming–Qing transition, from 15…
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: The Good Earth (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) cover
Rating 4.6
World Literature Library · American Classics Series: The Good Earth (Full-Color Illustrated Edition) Pearl S. Buck / 韩素宁 · 2026 *The Good Earth* is the first volume of *The Good Earth Trilogy*, telling the story of the farmer Wang Lung, who rises step by step from a poor, hardw…
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Rating 3.0
Biography of Zhou Yili 李迎建 Xinhua Publishing House · 2026 This biography offers a detailed account of the brilliant life of Zhou Yili, an early revolutionary of the Communist Party of China. A leader of the H…
Historical Facts and Historical Insight: A Glimpse into Research on Historical Materials of Modern Chinese Literature cover
Rating 3.6
Historical Facts and Historical Insight: A Glimpse into Research on Historical Materials of Modern Chinese Literature 梨保荣 Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026 This book explores the study of historical materials in modern Chinese literature from three aspects: textual research, identification of errors, and …
The Lost Campus cover
Rating 2.5
The Lost Campus 涂光禄 · 2025 From hazy memories of the transition between the Republic of China and the People's Republic, to the storm of the "unprecedented" Cultural Revolution,…
'Fengqiao Experience' and the Fine Tradition of People's Justice (Research Series on Grassroots Foundation Construction in China's National Governance) cover
Rating 3.2
'Fengqiao Experience' and the Fine Tradition of People's Justice (Research Series on Grassroots Foundation Construction in China's National Governance) 余钊飞 / 陈键 / 王斌通 China Legal Publishing House · 2025 By compiling and studying the judicial archive materials on the "Fengqiao Experience" held by the Zhuji City People's Court and the Zhuji City Archive…
From Concept to Reality: A Design Journey with ChatGPT and Midjourney cover
Rating 3.6
From Concept to Reality: A Design Journey with ChatGPT and Midjourney 冯大伟 Peking University Press · 2025 This book introduces how to use ChatGPT and Midjourney and where they apply, and uses design case studies to explain how AIGC can help designers in di…
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Rating 3.5
Biography of Qian Junfu 吕成冬 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2025 Drawing on documents, archives, and visual sources, this book chronicles Qian Junfu's life in chronological order—from his birth and studies in variou…
A Study of the Origins of the Inauguration Oath System in Modern China cover
Rating 3.6
A Study of the Origins of the Inauguration Oath System in Modern China 佘文博 China Legal Publishing House · 2025 This book traces the rise and fall of China's modern-era oath-of-office system from 1911 to 1949, encompassing its two periods of constitutionalizatio…
Lingdong Daily · Chaojia News: Selected Historical Materials on Meizhou (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.1
Lingdong Daily · Chaojia News: Selected Historical Materials on Meizhou (2 Volumes) 肖文评 / 王濯巾 / 宋心梅 / 徐媛 Jinan University Press · 2025 In May 1902, Lingdong Daily (Lingdong Ribao) was founded in Shantou by Meizhou natives Yang Yuan, He Shiguo, Wen Tingjing and others. It was the earli…
The History of Academic Dress cover
Rating 3.8
The History of Academic Dress 王小青 / 娄雨 Peking University Press · 2025 Academic dress is a distinctive form of attire that arose within the degree system. Modern Chinese academic dress originated as an imitation of Europe…
Two Sixty-Year Cycles of Rise and Decline: A Chronicle of Urban Spatial Change in Chongqing over the Past 120 Years cover
Rating 3.4
Two Sixty-Year Cycles of Rise and Decline: A Chronicle of Urban Spatial Change in Chongqing over the Past 120 Years 郭欢欢 Peking University Press · 2025 Taking Chongqing as a case study and drawing on maps, notes and diaries, newspaper reports, memoirs, and official documents, this book examines the dy…
Chronicles of United Front Work in Hefei cover
Rating 2.5
Chronicles of United Front Work in Hefei 中共合肥市委统战部 Sino-Culture Press · 2025 Anchored in the Marxist historical materialism and a correct view of Party history, and guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Charact…
Sino-Japanese Relations from the Koizumi Cabinet to the Kan Cabinet cover
Rating 3.7
Sino-Japanese Relations from the Koizumi Cabinet to the Kan Cabinet 张耀武 / 孙文选 Xinhua Publishing House · 2025 Postwar Sino-Japanese relations can be roughly divided into the following stages: (1) the "abnormal stage" before 1972; (2) the "normal stage" after 1…