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Journey Through Eleven Time Zones: Fifty Years in the Northern Land
民主与建设出版社 · 2024
For most of the twentieth century, a group of nations was unified under a single identity—the Soviet Union, a realm spanning eleven time zones. This b…
The Witches: Salem, 1692
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2020
In the winter of 1692, in the small town of Salem near Boston, a minister's niece began to twitch and scream, and soon the minister's daughter showed …
Dream Street: 50 Years of Host Clubs in Kabukicho
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
This book is a work of reportage by Japanese nonfiction writer Kohta Ishii, focusing on the host club industry in Shinjuku's Kabukicho. The narrative …
Coming Back
Taihai Publishing House · 2017
Coming Back is Sun Zhonglun's first work of nonfiction, published in 2017 by Taihai Publishing House and produced by Imaginist. The author was born in…
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire
CITIC Press · 2018
The Ottoman Centuries is a general history of the Ottoman Empire centered on its sultans. Originally published in English as The Ottoman Centuries: Th…
The Big Short
CITIC Press · 2015
The Big Short is a 2010 chronicle of the financial crisis by Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker, focusing on the Wall Street panorama around the ou…
The Chess Player's Peril
CITIC Press · 2013
The Chess Player's Peril is a collection of nonfiction character profiles written by veteran journalist Guan Jun for CITIC Press's "China Story" serie…
Blood on the Waves: Black and White on the China–North Korea Border
CITIC Press · 2013
Blood on the Waves: Black and White on the China–North Korea Border is a work of border reportage written by veteran journalist and non-fiction writer…
The City Reads Series
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017
Launched by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in 2017, the City Reads series is a collection of urban biographies. Its aim is "open a book,…
No Heir Is the Greatest Failure
Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2012
No Heir Is the Greatest Failure is a work of social observation by journalist and writer Guan Jun, published by Shanghai Culture Publishing House in 2…
Dangdai (Bimonthly), Issue 2, 2025
People's Literature Publishing House · 2025
Dangdai 2025, Issue 2 (bimonthly), sponsored by People's Literature Publishing House, with the motto 'Literature records China.' This issue combines f…
A Hotel in This World
Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House · 2025
Renjian Hotel is the essay collection that follows Wei Chen by Chen Nianxi, the "miner poet." Published by Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House in J…
Sheep Trail: Spring Pasture
Flower City Publishing House · 2022
Sheep Trail: Spring Pasture is the first volume of Li Juan's "Sheep Trail" trilogy, a work of long-form nonfiction prose. Spring arrives, the snow mel…
My Reading: Reading with You to the End of the World
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2015
This book collects the scripts of the Phoenix TV book program Eight Minutes of Open Books, hosted by Leung Man-tao and compiled by Phoenix Books, and …
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2015
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is the first memoir by American funeral professional Caitlin Doughty, originally published as Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Oth…
Life and Death in the Andes: In the Footsteps of Bandits, Heroes and Revolutionaries
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2017
Stretching some 4,300 miles from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego, the Andes are the longest mountain range in the world. For millennia they have cradled …
Barbara W. Tuchman Series
CITIC Press · 2016
Published by CITIC Press Group, the Barbara W. Tuchman Series collects Chinese translations of six representative works by the American historian Barb…
A Journey Through the Wasteland
People's Literature Publishing House · 2015
A Journey Through the Wasteland is a family-history documentary work co-authored by film director Peng Xiaolian and Liu Hui. Peng Xiaolian insisted th…
Endless Wandering: An Old Soldier's Account of My Forty Years in Taiwan
China Friendship Publishing Company · 2012
In 1949, nearly two million people moved to Taiwan with the Nationalists, about half of them Nationalist soldiers with almost no choice in the matter.…
Growing Up in Albania
Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2024
Lea Ypi was born in 1979 and spent her childhood in Albania, an Eastern European country with a unique history that was little known to the outside wo…