Modern Era

52 books

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The Iron Age Xiaoqi The Iron Age is a long alternate-history novel serialized by web novelist Xiaoqi Xiao starting in August 2007, about 2.6 million characters in total, …
Thirty Years of Turmoil: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008 (Tenth-Anniversary Collector's Edition, Two Volumes) cover
Thirty Years of Turmoil: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008 (Tenth-Anniversary Collector's Edition, Two Volumes) Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2017 Thirty Years of Turmoil is a history of Chinese enterprise by financial writer Wu Xiaobo, completed over roughly four years, recording the growth, str…
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A Compilation of Clinical Experience from Renowned Senior Physicians of Shanxi Shanxi Provincial Department of Health Shanxi Science and Technology Press · 1992 Compiled under the auspices of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Health and published by Shanxi Science and Technology Press in February 1992, this …
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Remembering the Eighties Wang Xuedian Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2015 Remembering the Eighties is a collection of essays by Wang Xuedian, a historian and professor at Shandong University, published in the second series o…
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The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 1 Zeng Guofan Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2011 The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan is a large-scale documentary collection published by Yuelu Press, based on the complete works issued in the 1980s an…
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Fang Tao Medical Cases Fang Tao This is a casebook that shows the clinician's hand at work. It lays out no grand theory; instead, each case is broken into symptoms, tongue and pulse,…
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The Zhou Family: A Chinese Story Zhou Qibo / Ding Dong / Xing Xiaoqun CITIC Press · 2013 The Zhou Family is an oral-history piece from the "Oral History" column of the magazine Xinrui, later included in Xing Xiaoqun's oral-history collecti…
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Rating 4.1
Beijing, 1912 穆儒丐 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2015 Beijing, 1912 is a full-length Beijing-flavored novel by the Manchu vernacular novelist Mu Rugai, republished in 2015 by Beijing United Publishing Com…
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Rating 4.2
1927: A Life-and-Death Turning Point Jin Chongji Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2021 In 1927 the first cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party moved toward full collapse, making that year one of the most important tu…
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Why Chiang Kai-shek Lost Mainland China: Banners in Disarray 袁浩 China Development Press · 2015 This book examines why the Nationalist regime collapsed so rapidly between the victory in the War of Resistance in 1945 and 1949, adopting the Nationa…
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Rating 4.3
A Grand Biography of Zeng Guofan Lin Gan / 迟云飞 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 A Grand Biography of Zeng Guofan is co-authored by Qing history specialists Lin Qian and Chi Yunfei. In two volumes, it retells Zeng Guofan's sixty-on…
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Du Liang's Five Novels of Home and Country Du Liang Zhejiang Education Publishing House · 2023 Du Liang's "Five Novels of Home and Country" refers to a collection of five novels by the author Du Liang: Drawing the Sword, Blood-Red Romance, Beaco…
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Annotated Edition of Collected Medical Records of Three Generations of the Cao Family of Wu School Gong Lijuan China Press of Traditional Chinese Medicine · 2013 This book is one title in the Rare Medical Treasures Series · Jiangsu Volume and gathers the clinical experience of three generations of physicians fr…
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Rating 4.3
13 Journeys Through Space and Time Colin Stewart Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 Can space-time travel really be achieved? Is the universe like a peeled onion, hiding layer upon layer of endless parallel spaces? Where on Earth can …
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A Bright Star: A Biography of Hu Shi Hu Yangxi People's Literature Publishing House · 2010 This book is a biography of Hu Shi by Hu Yangxi, its title taken from the author's metaphor for the subject: on the sky of modern Chinese intellectual…
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Rating 4.2
The Anxieties of a Connoisseur of Anecdotes Song Xiyu Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 The Anxieties of a Connoisseur of Anecdotes is the first book by young literary and historical researcher Song Xiyu, published in October 2024 by Zhon…
My Life Is Finite, My Wish Endless: Liang Shuming's Self-Accounts cover
My Life Is Finite, My Wish Endless: Liang Shuming's Self-Accounts Liang Shuming Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2013 "My life is finite, my wish endless" comes from Liang Shuming's own description of his inexhaustible resolve. This book is not a complete autobiograph…
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Rating 3.5
Great Reads in Classic Literature (30-Volume Set) 陈渠珍 / Fu Sinian / Liang Yuchun / Lin Shu / Su Manshu Great Reads in Classic Literature (30-Volume Set) is a collection of Chinese literature issued as an e-book, roughly 1.688 million characters, gatheri…
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Rating 3.7
The Memoirs of Chen Bulei 陈布雷 Oriental Press · 2009 Chen Bulei's Memoirs is the autobiographical memoir written by Chen Bulei (1890–1948), a core aide to the Kuomintang leadership. Arranged chronologica…
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The Memoirs of Wellington Koo, Volume 9 Gu Weijun / Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Zhonghua Book Company · 2013 The Memoirs of Wellington Koo is a long oral-history memoir by the Republican-era diplomat Wellington Koo (1888–1985). The book grew out of Koo's part…