Nonfiction

25 books

Ayu cover
Rating 3.8
Ayu Chen Danyan 山东广东出版社 · 2024 A work of nonfiction by Chen Danyan, documenting the real life of a female ancestor and exploring the hard-won balance between love and independence. …
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Rating 3.5
One Man Under Heaven: A Biography of Emperor Huizong of Song 祁新龙 · 2024 This book offers the most comprehensive and systematic account available of Emperor Huizong of Song's remarkable life. Drawing on existing works about…
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Rating 4.6
Private Lectures by Literary Masters (3 Volumes) 尼尔·盖曼 / Ayn Rand / 厄休拉·勒古恩 / 大卫·奈门 Post Wave Publishing · 2024 The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Nonfiction is the first nonfiction collection by Neil Gaiman, a modern master of fantasy literature—a book that appre…
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Rating 3.8
History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra McGlashan, C. F. (Charles Fayette), 1847-1931 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 …
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Rating 4.2
The Unfinished Germ Warfare 南香红 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026 This work of narrative nonfiction, in five parts and 22 chapters totaling more than 600,000 Chinese characters, presents the unhealed historical wound…
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Rating 3.6
A Study of Modal Logic 董英东 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Modal logic is a mainstream branch of contemporary logic, exhibiting distinctive theoretical value and application potential across numerous academic …
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Rating 4.0
Seeing China's Villages and Towns 赵玉顺 / 袁贞贞 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This is a work of social reportage on observing China's villages and towns. Over the past five years, the author has traveled across north and south C…
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Rating 3.3
Statistical Analysis of Financial Data (2nd Edition) 陈文婷 / 何岩 China Financial Publishing House · 2026 Financial Data Statistical Analysis (2nd Edition) is application-oriented, starting from basic financial data and using statistical concepts and metho…
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Rating 4.3
Islands of Sorrow: The Chagossian Diaspora and Resistance 南多·博达 / 曾珠 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 Against the backdrop of the Cold War, Diego Garcia, the main island of the Chagos Archipelago, became a key island for the United States in implementi…
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Rating 3.3
Delicious Stories 曹玮 Hunan People's Publishing House · 2025 This is a work of nonfiction by anthropologist Cao Wei. Childhood shadows, secret crushes, human warmth, the kindness and cruelty of neighbors, life c…
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Rating 4.2
At the Vegetable Market, in the Human World Chen Hui Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2024 In the Market, in This World is a book about the fervent lives of a group of ordinary market vendors, and also a book about the joy of living close to…
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Rating 3.4
Documentary Creation Practice 黄鹏 Communication University of China Press · 2023 This is a practical textbook on documentary filmmaking that emphasizes hands-on practice and real-world application, structured around the documentary…
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Rating 4.8
The Sheep's Path: Summer Pasture in the Deep Mountains Li Juan Flower City Publishing House · 2023 “They are the world’s last truly nomadic people. They choose to disappear into the remotest corner of the earth, moving with the water and grass. From…
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Rating 4.7
The Sheep's Path: Spring Pasture Li Juan Flower City Publishing House · 2023 “The world's last truly nomadic people. Content to live out their days in the remotest corner of the earth, moving with the water and grass. From the …
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Rating 4.7
The Sheep's Path: Summer Pasture in the Front Mountains Li Juan Flower City Publishing House · 2023 "This is the world's last truly nomadic people. Content to lie low in the remotest corner of the world, moving with the water and grass. From the wild…
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Rating 3.5
White Notebook 2 陈拙 Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 "Hospital Curiosities," a documentary series. A major work from Genius Catcher Project, the nonfiction imprint of Mozhou! A critically acclaimed book …
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Rating 3.5
A Brief Stay in Every City (Poetic Thinker) 安石榴 · 2026 He began wandering the world at twenty, moving repeatedly among Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Yinchuan, Shenyang, Guiyang, Zhongshan, Foshan, Nanning,…
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Rating 3.6
At Dawn Greenery Covers the Hills 远人 · 2026 I like Shenzhen, not because of its material side, but because compared with other cities where I have lived and come to know deeply, Shenzhen has a d…
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Rating 3.9
Up and Down the Great River: The Fate of the Yellow River 陈启文 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 This is an on-the-ground investigative work devoted to probing the fate and contemporary predicament of the Yellow River. The author traces the river …
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Rating 3.4
Report on Ice and Snow in the South 陈启文 Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A panoramic work of long-form reportage that faithfully records the 2008 snowstorms in southern China—a deeply extended inquiry into existence, fate, …