Life Irony

67 books

A Big Talk Journey to the West 1 cover
A Big Talk Journey to the West 1 Xiang Zhanglao / Sang Daguanren China Workers Publishing House · 2009 A Big Talk Journey to the West 1 is a modern humorous work co-authored by Xiang Zhanglao and Sang Daguanren that reinterprets and reimagines Journey t…
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Selected Masterpieces: Essays by Eileen Chang Eileen Chang This volume belongs to the Selected Masterpieces series of anthologies and gathers representative essays by the modern Chinese writer Eileen Chang. He…
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Rating 4.7
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen People's Literature Publishing House · 1997 Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen is a selection of tales written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century, transla…
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Rating 4.2
The Skylark Sings All Day Long Mu Xin Guangxi Normal University Press · 2009 The Skylark Sings All Day Long is one of the poetry collections that Mu Xin finalized and published in his lifetime. Guangxi Normal University Press b…
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Rating 3.9
The Clown's Flower Osamu Dazai / 文洁若 Chongqing Publishing House · 2026 The Flowers of Buffoonery is an early collection by Osamu Dazai, containing four short stories: "The Flowers of Buffoonery," "The Monkey-Faced Youth,"…
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Rating 3.8
Passing By: Selected New Essays by Xiao Fuxing Xiao Fuxing Writers Publishing House · 2026 This collection brings together recent essays by Xiao Fuxing, whose writing is known for its depth of thought and enduring prose style and has been ch…
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Rating 2.7
Zhang Lihua's Collected Poems and Ci 张立华 · 2026 This book collects more than a hundred poems and ci written by Zhang Lihua over more than a decade, using the old-style regulated forms to capture the…
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Rating 3.9
The Leap of Paper Money Yu Dafu · 2026 The Leaping of Paper Money unfolds around the protagonist Wen Pu and the bits and pieces of his hometown. The pieces "Paper Money," "Smoke Shadow," an…
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Rating 3.8
All the Roads in the World 王选 Writers Publishing House · 2026 The book uses the author's own experiences (time) as its warp and the circumstances of others (space) as its weft; each chapter revolves around a sing…
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Rating 4.2
Zong Pu's Fiction (Writers' Fiction Collection) Hardcover Zong Pu Writers Publishing House · 2026 This selection of Zong Pu's short stories includes her finest and most representative work, among them "The Un sinking Lake," "Dream on the Strings," …
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Rating 2.8
Just Saying 冰耘 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 The title of this book, Just Saying, was personally inscribed by the renowned writer Jia Pingwa. The collection contains over 100 micro-short stories …
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Rating 3.8
Selected Works of Mu Tao 穆涛 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Selected Essays of Mu Tao is a self-selected collection by Lu Xun Literary Prize winner Mu Tao, part of the "Highest Flower" Series · Contemporary Chi…
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Rating 2.5
Gathering Fragrance Through the Years 木囧 中国科学文化音像出版社 · 2025 A collection of essays, *Gathering the Fragrance of Time* is divided into four sections—"Whispers of Fleeting Life," "Memories Like Smoke," "Reflectio…
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Rating 2.8
Two Ounces of Poetry, Three Ounces of Heart Medicine: 26 Emotional Prescriptions from Ancient Literati 魏祎 Chongqing Publishing House · 2025 Open the long scroll of history, and countless poets have left behind poems that endure in literary history; between the lines, their life trajectorie…
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Rating 4.2
Morning Glory 志贺直哉 / 楼适夷 Chongqing Publishing House · 2025 Under the title Morning Glory, this short story collection by Naoya Shiga, the "god of fiction" in Japan, brings together 21 stories translated by the…
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Rating 3.0
The Philosophy of the Ordinary 葛昌永 国文出版社 · 2025 This is a collection of philosophical essays. Comprising 69 life essays rich in philosophical insight, the book includes intriguing allusions and stor…
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Rating 4.3
The Old Courtesan 冈本加乃子 / 司马 · 2025 If the two of them truly cared for each other and liked each other from the bottom of their hearts, she said she would be all for it. "But if it's jus…
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Rating 3.8
Family Records Xiao Fuxing Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 This is a collection of essays by the renowned contemporary writer Xiao Fuxing, chiefly recording episodes from the lives of his parents, siblings, an…
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Rating 2.5
Chong'er Collection 黄学军 World Joint Publishing House Pte. Ltd. · 2024 This collection brings together a series of poems by the poet "Chong'er," works that vividly record the details of daily life, portray the myriad face…
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Rating 3.9
The Seven-Tiered Pagoda Zhu Hui Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 This collection brings together 14 of Zhu Hui's finest short stories, including "The Seven-Story Pagoda," "Dark Red and Withered White," "The Ass's Sk…