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A Biography of Tianjin: Viewing the Tianjin Gates in Peaceful Times
Foreign Languages Press · 2026
Tianjin, the largest port city in northern China, sits where nine rivers converge and was once home to nine foreign concessions. North and south blend…
Robert van Gulik: The Man and His Books
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2024
The first critical biography of Robert Hans van Gulik ever published, and a rather unusual one. Eschewing the conventional approach of dwelling on the…
Biography of Wuhan: A Metropolis Where the Yangtze and Han Rivers Meet
Foreign Languages Press · 2026
Drawing on local gazetteers and historical scholarship, this work of nonfiction traces Wuhan's geographical evolution and spatial layout where rivers …
Biography of Kaifeng: Yimen, Land of Emperors Since Ancient Times
Foreign Languages Press · 2026
From a historian's perspective and with a writer's brush, this book systematically traces the history of Kaifeng, with a focus on the Belt and Road. O…
Ache, Fingers: To My Autistic Child
Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026
This is the true story of an autistic teenager and his family holding on amid hardship. Seventeen-year-old Chen Zhengxuan has congenital autism and ca…
The Earth After Rain
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2026
In this work of nonfiction, Zhong Min and the author Miao Jie—both once cogs in the urban grind—are doers who act on their convictions. One after anot…
The Wings of Nature Trilogy
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026
H Is for Hawk: No. 40 on The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the most prestigious award for …
Love on Paper: Parents' Love in Love Letters
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
Paper Love: My Parents' Romance in Letters is a work of nonfiction chronicling the sincere yet quietly romantic love story of the older generation. In…
Lu You
Sino-Culture Press · 2025
Grounded in historical sources and written in a non-fiction mode with literary language, this book portrays the personal vicissitudes and literary car…
The Bianjing Guest
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
Find your own meaning in the people of the Song Dynasty. A new book from the Columbia-educated author of *Blazing Flowers: Girls of the Tang*, written…
Living in Low Places
Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025
A new 2024 work of nonfiction from Hu Anyan, author of *I Deliver Parcels in Beijing*! "Like the vast majority of people, I'm just an ordinary person.…
Fearless of Borders: A Journey of Escape from Afghanistan to Europe
Shanghai Wenhui Publishing House · 2025
This book tells the harrowing journey of an acclaimed young war correspondent who accompanies his Afghan refugee friend across Europe in search of a n…
Everyone Has II
香港文艺出版社 · 2025
As a continuation of the one-child generation era, this work tells, in a nonfiction and perceptive manner, the life of the protagonist Xiao Sa, born i…
Everyone Has (I)
香港文艺出版社 · 2025
Set against the backdrop of the only-child era, this work of nonfiction tells, through telling small details, the story of Xiao Sa, born in the 1990s,…
The Butterfly House
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2024
Over seven years, the author Ye Xiaoguo interviewed more than a hundred ordinary people, listening as they told the extraordinary stories of their liv…
Queen Marie Antoinette, the French Revolution, and the Fall of the Bourbon Dynasty
Oriental Press · 2024
This book is an important work by John S. C. Abbott, an expert in nonfiction writing. Taking Queen Marie Antoinette as its main thread, it tells the h…
The Singing Apple Tree
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
The Singing Apple Tree is a novel told from a child's perspective, portraying rural Shanxi in the 1980s and 1990s. Plain and fluent, briskly paced, it…
A Moveable Feast
Shaanxi Normal University Press · 2022
This is a work of nonfiction prose that reads with the texture of a novel. In twenty concise chapters it sketches the life of Hemingway in his finest …
Dust
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2021
This book collects 21 original works of nonfiction prose by Chen Nianxi. It tells the stories of a group of ordinary, unassuming laborers. They are bl…
Retracing the Route: In Search of Southwest Associated University along Roads, Rivers and Post Roads
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
The first full-length work of narrative nonfiction from Dan Du Press: the story of a young writer who retraced on foot the route of the National South…