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New Water Margin (When the Liangshan Heroes Meet the Turmoil of the Late Qing)
· 2026
This is a late-Qing satirical novel that transplants the 108 Liangshan heroes into late-Qing society: Song Jiang schemes for office, Wu Yong throws hi…
Understand in One Book: Rhapsody on the Epang Palace
· 2025
Taking Du Mu's timeless masterpiece Rhapsody on the Epang Palace as its thread, this book uses the rise and fall of an illusory palace to reveal the p…
Tangyu Gate: Singing Again
Nanhai Publication Company · 2024
Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early intellectual forms have distinctive features, and…
How Chinese People Live
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2022
This book speaks in an open, contemporary idiom, turning to the past with an eye on the present. It ranges across historical figures from Li Yuan and …
Soul on the Sea
· 2026
A modern vernacular chapter novel, written around the 33rd year of the Guangxu reign; the original text was a manuscript, later collated, annotated an…
Memorial Against Expelling the Guest Ministers
Bashu Publishing House · 2020
As an outstanding piece of ancient official correspondence, "The Petition Against Expelling Foreign Officials" is an important subject in the study of…
On Antiquity
The Commercial Press · 2024
On Antiquity is a work of religious philosophy. It includes many discussions, such as whether King Wu was a sage and whether the Zhou dynasty's eastwa…
On the Six States
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
A representative political essay by Su Xun. It sets forth and argues the incisive thesis that the six states perished "because their ruin lay in bribi…
Censuring Wrongs
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
When a king first rises, he always first establishes the root, widely sets up fences and screens, so as to build his own party and thus strengthen the…
Spring and Autumn and Warring States: Sung Again
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
Zhou Tan, birth and death years unknown, native place unknown. A Tang dynasty poet. In the late Tang, he served as Guozijiang (Instructor at the Imper…
Reflections on the Past at Golden Valley
Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024
"Golden Valley Reminiscence" is a five-character ancient-style poem by the Tang poet Du Mu.
Calls from Antiquity (Hardcover) -- Collected Works of Chen Guying
Zhonghua Book Company · 2021
This volume collects nine essays in which the author, by examining ideas of the people's will, valuing life, and peace that surface in pre-Qin texts, …
Secretly Laughing at Dream of the Red Chamber
China Overseas Publishing House · 2017
This book uses the characters and stories of Dream of the Red Chamber as its backdrop to observe, with a knowing smirk, how the Grand View Garden ente…