Return to Authenticity

23 books

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Rating 2.8
Lishui Poetry Anthology 流泉 / 乔国永 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This poetry collection gathers works by Lishui poets represented by Wen Xin, Ye Lijun, Liu Quan, and Yu Yan. The poems depict natural landscapes and p…
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Rating 4.2
Who Am I, and Where Do I Come From 查尔斯·福斯特 / 傅临春 Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2023 "I don't know where I came from, and I don't know what kind of creature I am. This book tries to find the answers to these two questions. I don't beli…
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Rating 3.2
Into the Mountains: Chinese History in the Tao Te Ching Yan He Culture Communication (Beijing) Co., Ltd. · 2026 When the secular order grows rigid, the Tao Te Ching becomes the Chinese people's highest guide to decoding the great way of life. Retreating into the…
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Rating 3.2
Everyone Has a Laozi in Their Heart: A Retranslation of the Tao Te Ching 墨迟 · 2026 I hope young people will read the Tao Te Ching more, and not be driven away from it by the misleading notions that it is "escapist" or that "the young…
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Rating 2.8
Understand the Silk Manuscript Dao De Jing in One Book 陶智 · 2025 This book takes as its core the silk-manuscript Daodejing unearthed in 1973 from the Han tombs at Mawangdui, Changsha, revealing how this precious cop…
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Rating 3.0
Understanding Walden in One Book 邓小云 · 2025 Weighed down by life, do you long for the spirit's "breathing" and "awakening"? This book is the soul guide you cannot afford to miss. With a poetic y…
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Rating 4.2
After Mr. Mo Xuyou Took a Plane (Part 2) Fei Ming (Feng Wenbing) · 2024 Mr. Nobody Takes a Plane (Part Two) is Fei Ming's last novel and is marked by a "return to simplicity." In the chapter "Mr. Nobody Sets About Writing …
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Rating 4.1
After Mr. Muxuyou Took an Airplane (Part One) Fei Ming (Feng Wenbing) · 2024 After Mr. Nobody Takes a Plane is Fei Ming's final novel, marked by a "return to simplicity." In the chapter "Mr. Nobody Takes Up His Pen," Fei Ming d…
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Rating 3.0
The Many Faces of Abstraction: Works of He Pengfei 贺鹏飞 Hebei Education Press · 2023 Abstract in Many Guises: The Art of He Pengfei is a collection of works by He Pengfei, an abstract expressionist painter of the primitivist school, ga…
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Rating 4.3
Nature Prose Trilogy (3 Volumes) 梭罗 / 奥尔多·利奥波德 / 约翰·缪尔 / 亦言 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2023 The "Nature Essays Trilogy" comprises Walden, My First Summer in the Sierra, and A Sand County Almanac, all widely recognized as models of nature writ…
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Rating 3.6
After Mr. Moshuoyou Took a Plane Fei Ming (Feng Wenbing) · 2023 After Mr. Perhaps Takes a Plane is Fei Ming's last novel, marked by a "return to simplicity." In the chapter "Mr. Perhaps Sets Out to Write," Fei Ming…
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Rating 4.6
Walden (Bilingual Classic) Henry David Thoreau / 孙致礼 Yilin Press · 2022 Walden is an essay collection by the American writer Henry David Thoreau, offering a detailed account of the author's two years, two months, and two d…
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Rating 4.0
Selected Poems of Tao Yuanming 曹旭 / 高智 The Commercial Press · 2022 Tao Yuanming: Selected Poems is one volume in the "Classical Chinese Poetry Collection" series, co-authored by Professor Cao Xu of Shanghai Normal Uni…
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Rating 4.2
Laozi Wang Zhongjiang · 2022 Laozi is one of the celebrated classics of ancient China. Standing as a twin peak alongside Zhuangzi, it is a representative work of the pre-Qin Daois…
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Rating 5.0
The True Scripture of the Way and Virtue Laozi · 2026 The Daode Zhenjing, better known as the Daodejing and also called Laozi or the Laozi in Five Thousand Characters, is the founding work of the Daoist s…
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Rating 3.4
The True Taste of Vegetable Food 李韬 Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press · 2022 Crafted with spiritual conviction and material discernment, it restores the true taste of vegetable cuisine: vegetable food is not austere, and vegeta…
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Rating 2.7
The Complete Works of the Dao De Jing Niu Yue Shantou University Press · 2021 Tailored to how general readers absorb knowledge, this edition stays faithful to the original while adding clear, simple annotations and plain-languag…
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Rating 4.0
The True Flavors of Vegetarian Food 李韬 Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press · 2022 Created with spiritual conviction and material fastidiousness in equal measure, this book restores the true taste of vegetable cuisine: plant-based fo…
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Rating 3.2
Life Without the Internet 贾健 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2022 From e-books and online learning to remote work and social media, the internet has brought enormous convenience to life and work—yet it also floods us…
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Rating 3.8
Walden Henry David Thoreau Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2021 Walden, rendered in Chinese as 《瓦尔登湖》, is Henry David Thoreau's record of his solitary life by Walden Pond, depicting what he saw, heard, and thought …