Selected Essays

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Live Up to My Heart: Selected Essays by Yu Minhong cover
Rating 4.0
Live Up to My Heart: Selected Essays by Yu Minhong Yu Minhong New Star Press · 2022 This book is a selection of essays by Yu Minhong, published nearly thirty years after he founded New Oriental and as he turned sixty. Drawn from artic…
Selected Essays by Che Qianzi (Suzhou Slow · Tea and Ink · On Taste · Lazy Window) cover
Selected Essays by Che Qianzi (Suzhou Slow · Tea and Ink · On Taste · Lazy Window) 车前子 Peking University Press · 2016 This is a selected collection of essays by Che Qianzi, a poet, essayist, and ink painter. Published in 2016 by Peking University Press in a hardcover …
Bai Shuo cover
Rating 3.8
Bai Shuo Bai Yansong Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015 Bai Shuo is a selection of speeches and essays by Bai Yansong, a veteran CCTV journalist, following Are You Happy? and Pain and Joy. First published b…
A Room of One's Own cover
Rating 4.5
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf / 青柠 · 2026 This volume is a classic literary collection by the renowned British author Virginia Woolf, gathering her celebrated essays, literary criticism, and s…
Reading Myself and Others cover
Rating 4.4
Reading Myself and Others Philip Roth / 麦熙雯 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2023 Philip Roth's writing career spanned an astonishing fifty years, during which he became one of the great chroniclers of postwar American life. Collect…
Other Colors: Collector's Edition cover
Rating 4.1
Other Colors: Collector's Edition Orhan Pamuk / 宗笑飞 / 林边水 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019 This is a personal anthology from Pamuk's three-decade writing career, chronicling his lifelong obsession with solitude, landscapes, books, and the ci…
The "Her Bookshelf" Series: She Wants to Buy Flowers Herself + She Wants to Die, and She Wants to Go to Paris (2 Volumes) cover
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The "Her Bookshelf" Series: She Wants to Buy Flowers Herself + She Wants to Die, and She Wants to Go to Paris (2 Volumes) 古斯塔夫·福楼拜 / Virginia Woolf / 高牧 / 丁伟 China Chang'an Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. · 2025 She Was Going Out to Buy Flowers A companion volume to A Room of One's Own—a sharper, more radical revolution of the female self This collection bring…
Truly All Things Shine: Animal Notes 2020 cover
Rating 3.8
Truly All Things Shine: Animal Notes 2020 Hsing Yun / Feng Zikai / Zhang Dan Peking University Press · 2025 This is an expanded and upgraded edition of *Animal Notes*, published by Writers Publishing House in 2012. While retaining the finest pieces from the …
Pioneer of Asian Feminism: Miyamoto Yuriko's Essay Collection (3 Volumes) cover
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Pioneer of Asian Feminism: Miyamoto Yuriko's Essay Collection (3 Volumes) 宫本百合子 / 彭清 / 曹逸冰 Post Wave Publishing · 2024 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow of Womanliness: incisive and invaluable counsel that gave a powerful push to the transformation of Asian women's thinkin…
Shanghai Style: Selected Essays of Hu Zhanfen cover
Rating 3.5
Shanghai Style: Selected Essays of Hu Zhanfen 胡展奋 New Star Press · 2024 A veteran investigative journalist, Hu Zhanfen has in recent years won wide renown and growing influence as an essayist. His prose is bold, sharp and …
Don't Think You Can Skip These Books (Poetic Thinker Reads the Classics) cover
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Don't Think You Can Skip These Books (Poetic Thinker Reads the Classics) Zhao Yu · 2026 This book is a selection of reading notes by the renowned writer Zhao Yu. It focuses mainly on European and American fiction, with essays and miscella…
The Two Sides of Time's Coin cover
Rating 3.9
The Two Sides of Time's Coin 孙甘露 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 A representative collection of essays by Sun Ganlu, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, gathering his occasional pieces from different periods. Th…
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2006 Best Chinese Essays cover
Rating 4.0
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2006 Best Chinese Essays Wang Bisheng / 潘凯雄 / Wang Meng Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2024 As the essay volume of this year's Sunbird Literary Annual series, this book is edited by the renowned scholar Wang Meng, assisted by several literary…
Sunbird Literary Annual Anthology: The Best Chinese Informal Essays of 2014 cover
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Sunbird Literary Annual Anthology: The Best Chinese Informal Essays of 2014 Wang Bisheng / 潘凯雄 / Wang Meng Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2024 Published by Liaoning People's Publishing House, the Sunbird Literary Annual series has been published continuously for 17 years since 1998. The 2015 …
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2005 Best Chinese Essays cover
Rating 3.9
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2005 Best Chinese Essays Wang Bisheng / 潘凯雄 / Wang Meng Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2024 As the essay volume of this year's Sunbird Literary Annual series, this book is edited by the renowned scholar Wang Meng, with the strong support of s…
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2007 Best Chinese Essays cover
Rating 4.0
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2007 Best Chinese Essays Wang Bisheng / 潘凯雄 / Wang Meng Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2024 As the miscellaneous essay volume of this year's Sunbird Literary Annual series, this book is edited by the renowned scholar Wang Meng as editor-in-ch…
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2008 Best Chinese Essays cover
Rating 4.0
Sunbird Literary Annual Selection: 2008 Best Chinese Essays Wang Bisheng / 潘凯雄 / Wang Meng Liaoning People's Publishing House · 2024 As the essay volume of this year's Sunbird Literature Annual Selection series, this book is edited by the renowned scholar Wang Meng as editor-in-chie…
Partial Portraits cover
Rating 4.4
Partial Portraits James, Henry, 1843-1916 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 …
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland cover
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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 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 …
English Satires cover
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English Satires Project Gutenberg 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 …