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Hidden Rules (Revised Edition): Real Games in Chinese History
In this book that interprets history, the author uses a writing style that is both elegant and vulgar, solemn and humorous to describe countless cases, large and small, worthy of people's consideration in history. While vividly and interestingly telling the story of officialdom, the author uses historical appearances to reveal the unwritten rules that are hidden under the formal rules and actually govern the operation of society. He calls them "hidden rules" and further points out that the emerg
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The Days Are Calm and We Have a Long Way to Go
The years pass silently, and you are not in a hurry. In the ordinary fireworks, I hope that with a pure heart, I will be happy that the days will be longer; I hope that morning and dusk will depend on each other, and the four seasons will be joyful; I hope you will go all out to live a life of calmness and gentleness. Holding the breeze in hand, waiting for the bright moon, and living a life with fireworks on eyebrows. This book is divided into seven chapters. It selects classic essays and prose
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Miscellaneous Memories of the Cowshed (Hardcover Collector's Edition)
"Miscellaneous Memories of the Cowshed" is Ji Xianlin's memoir of his experiences during the Cultural Revolution. He recounted his unfortunate experiences during the "Cultural Revolution" in a humorous and even ridiculing tone. This little book was bought with blood and written with tears. The author hopes that this book will bring not hatred and revenge, but a mirror from which we can see evil and good, ugliness and beauty, despair and hope.
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Zhang Henshui's Prose
This book is a collection of classic prose works by Mr. Zhang Henshui, a master of modern literature, describing the ancient capital of Peking. Following his writing, readers will stroll through the alleys shaded by pagoda trees and listen to the long and meaningful sounds of the city; Savor the fragrant fragrance of the Mid-Autumn Fruit Market and feel the warmth of the fire in the deep alleys on winter nights; Appreciate the desolation of reed flowers and flying snow in Taoranting, and be imme
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Selections of Russian Lyric Poems
Lyric poetry is a type of literary work alongside narrative and drama. It generally expresses the poet's personal emotions and thoughts in a subjective way. This book follows the historical development of Russian lyric poetry and collects more than 400 poems from more than 300 years. Among them, there are many representative works by some star poets, such as Pushkin, Tyutchev, Feit, Yesenin, Tsvetaeva, etc. The translation is exquisite, the emotions are sincere, the poetic style is endlessly cha
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Tenth Floor Human Room
Some people live in high-rise buildings, some live in deep ditches; some are radiant, and some are covered in rust; some are free, relaxed and romantic, and some make a living and support their families with a heavy burden... There are smooth roads and ravines in the world. Living on the tenth floor of the human world, who has not encountered this charming and torturous life? Among these encounters, there is a father who drove a big car into a ditch three times and had to die to stay alive; a mo
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I Prefer the Desolation of the World + the Set of 2 Volumes of the Crazy Bone Collection
[I prefer this world of desolation + Crazy Bone Collection set of 2 volumes] "I prefer the desolation of the world" I also want to make that moon Pick up all the romance Call you to get on the boat tonight Don't be trapped in this miserable world anymore I hope you can climb over the clanging mountains here before spring "Crazy Bone Collection" "Crazy Bone Collection" contains more than 80 emotional essays, each with a poem at the end. The works are written with love and true feelings, and the w
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Beautiful Pastoral Prose
Pastoral life allows people to have close contact with nature. People who feel the beauty from pastoral life must love nature, observe life attentively, and project their emotions into nature. Prose writing about pastoral life is not only a description of things in nature, but also a combination of one's own understanding of integrating with nature. From such prose, readers can feel not only the beauty of natural things, but also the author's careful observation and understanding of beauty.
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Jian Yu's Thirty-Year Prose Journey Hardcover Commemorative Edition (All 4 Volumes)
Winner of Taiwan's three major prose awards, Jinshi Hall Person of the Year, best-selling author, and contemporary Chinese prose master, Jian Yue's 30-year writing hardcover commemorative edition includes "Water Questions", "Daughter's Red", "The Fainting Forest" and "Rouge Basin". Jian Yu specially wrote a new preface to review the prose journey in the past thirty years. Specially included are precious photos related to Jian Yu, which are of more commemorative significance.
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Xiaoshan Ci
"Xiaoshan Ci" is a Song poetry work that occupies an important position in the history of Chinese literature. Feng Xu commented in "Examples of Sixty-one Poems of the Song Dynasty" that "their plain words are all interesting, and the simple words are all interesting. I hope that the two Song Dynasties can be compared, but it is rare." The works in "Xiaoshan Ci" are full of nostalgia for the past and express sadness. The style of writing is full of sentimentality, the sadness is deep and sincere,
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A Trip to This World Is Just for Fun
The book is divided into five parts: the words become warm, and peace of mind will last a lifetime; the old stories of old friends, in twos and threes; those who have never escaped will never return; the world is full of different situations, everyone is busy in his own way; the years are running fast, looking at Angelica from afar. It includes 68 classic Liang-style prose essays such as "Bean Juice", "Fried Meatballs", "Cheese", "Shaobing Fried Dough Sticks", "Missing My Mother", "Beiping New Y
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Peach Blossom Spring (Picture Book)
Sixteen hundred years ago, the Chinese weaved a romantic dream for the whole world. Become the life that all mankind yearns for! In the busy present, I hope to have a place for spiritual rest, even if it is just for a moment. "Peach Blossom Spring", we have been waiting for thousands of years!
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Letters from Home During the Anti-Japanese War: the Memories of Our Ancestors During the Anti-Japanese War
This book contains more than 30 family letters and the stories behind them from ancestors such as Zhang Zizhong, Cai Bingyan, Zuo Quan, Dai Anlan, Xie Jinyuan, etc. It is highly story-telling and readable. The book contains letters from home of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army under the leadership of the Party, as well as letters from the officers and soldiers of the Kuomintang's frontal battlefields, and letters from ordinary people, vividly showing the history of the Chinese peopl
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Smart Life
"Wisdom Life" is a large-scale anthology that collects thousands of works by Huang Xiaoping, the "king of Chinese sketches". Huang Xiaoping's sketches are based on life, with profound meanings and inspirational stories. The author stands in the details of life and looks up at the heights of human nature and soul. He combines the characteristics of fables, stories, and poems. His writing style is elegant, meticulous, clean and concise, with subtle meaning, full of grassroots atmosphere and firewo
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All Encounters in the World Are Reunions After a Long Absence
"All encounters in the world are reunions after a long separation" is a representative collection of essays by Bai Luomei. The author carefully selects poetry works full of Zen and profound charm written by eminent monks Huineng, Huiyuan, Xuanzang, Cangyang Gyatso, poet monks Hanshan, Jiaoran, Shide, Su Shi, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin, Cao Xueqin and others in Chinese history. He divides more than 40 poems into six volumes and appreciates them one by one. The writing is fresh and beautiful, full of p
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Humorous Prose Reader
This book is a compilation of humorous prose by famous writers. It has selected many modern and contemporary essays. The writing is humorous, playful, and satirical. It exposes and criticizes all kinds of worthless things in reality, so that the absurd and ugly behavior is fully exposed and there is no way to hide it. The book has nearly 300,000 words, with classic, interesting content and rich connotations. This is an excellent collection of essays. While exposing and satirizing, writers often
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Fine Dust
I have seen so much misfortune that I have never been depressed. ——Chen Nianxi This book contains 21 original non-fiction essays by Chen Nianxi. The book tells the story of a group of ordinary and simple workers. They are blasters, stone movers, country carpenters, farmers, peasant women, small workshop owners... The writer's own story runs throughout: digging mountains and blasting rocks five thousand meters underground, raising a family amidst the smoke and roar, writing poems in work sheds an
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The Sadness of the Ages
This book is a selection of Lin Xianzhi's ideological essays. The author uses delicate and beautiful words to describe the ideological status of celebrities in ancient and modern Chinese and foreign history. The breadth of coverage and the depth of understanding make it a masterpiece worth reading. The author is full of enthusiasm and uses poetic language to describe their lives - refusing to outline the appearance of ideas from the perspective of intellectual history, but using thick pen and in
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Don't Go Meekly into That Good Night
Dylan went against the rational color of British poetry and sprinkled a kind of Gothic barbarism to express the natural growth force and the rhythm of human nature. His personalized "process poetics" revolves around the three major themes of life, desire and death, and incorporates Christian theological revelation, metaphysical mysticism, Welsh heptad poetry and homophony, as well as the Druids' legacy in Celtic cultural beliefs. Throughout his life, he creatively used various verbal techniques
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Innocence Is Worth Years
The rare sobriety in life is to bid farewell to complexity and return to simplicity. Only by looking at people, things, and the world with an innocent eye can you be curious, feel at ease, and resist the passage of time. Ji Xianlin's life was "rich and innocent." This innocence is not pure, nor is it ignorant. It is a choice after experiencing the taste of life, and the most authentic and pure after experiencing all the vicissitudes of the world. This book selects 46 classic chapters by Ji Xianl
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Time Is Quiet for a Moment, Chicken Feathers on the Ground Are Daily Life
The quietness of the years is just a moment, and the chicken feathers on the ground are daily life. Even if the world is occasionally cold, there will always be flowers blooming inside. Light joy, quiet love, deep understanding, light relief. What you see in the distance is the scenery, and what you see close is life. I only hope that in this life, the years will be safe; I only talk about warmth, not sadness! This book selects 43 classic essays from 21 famous writers such as Ji Xianlin, Shi Tie
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The Most Beautiful Prose in the World
The prose extracted in "The Most Beautiful Prose in the World" is not only recognized as the best work, but also divided into categories with broad implications. They may eulogize nature or analyze society; they may praise truth, goodness and beauty, or lash out against falsehood, evil and ugliness. Behind their beautiful words, there are always profound philosophies contained or explained, providing people with ideological enlightenment and behavioral insights. In addition, each essay is added
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Little Orange Lamp (Classic Reading, Translation by Famous Writers)
This book is a work with eulogizing themes of love, beauty, and kindness. Every line of the book demonstrates the "philosophy of love" that Bing Xin has advocated throughout her life. "Little Orange Lantern" is a famous novel written by Bing Xin to young friends more than half a century ago. The calm, brave little girl with a heart full of love has touched countless people. That precious little orange lamp is the spark of light and hope, inspiring young people to move forward bravely. This book
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The Awakening of My Soul (Classic Prose by Liang Xiaosheng)
This book contains Liang Xiaosheng's classic prose essays on personal growth and life value. Liang Xiaosheng's writing is sincere, melancholic, profound, heroic, and full of profound humanistic care. Here there is the sharp side of the idealist - using words to question the conscience of society and exploring the pulse of the times; there is also the warm, emotional and simple side - using delicate brushwork to write about the mother's love, the father's age, the brotherhood between brothers and
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Meet in the Warmer Wind
This book is a collection of prose works by Li Hanrong, winner of the Baihua Literature Award and the Bingxin Literature Award. It focuses on the wonderful chapters selected for the nine-year compulsory education Chinese textbooks and the Chinese reading test questions for the high school entrance examination. It also includes some new works. His words are full of aura and have a strong and full sense of life, like flowers blooming above the clouds and below the earth's surface. When we are trap
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There Is a Kind of Elegance, Taking Advantage of the Youth
Classical famous objects are originally settled in the world of mortals and have no intention of gathering or dispersing, but they accidentally touched the heartstrings of passers-by, thus giving birth to this elegant incident that lingers in their hearts. Prosperity through the ages is just a thin breeze at the corner of the historical corridor, but the author has found for readers an elegant life like Tang poetry and Song poetry in ink and wash, leading readers to cook tea, look at the prosper
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Gardenia Smells Fragrant When Plums Are Ripe
It selects more than 40 representative prose works by 21 famous literary figures such as Shi Tiesheng, Ji Xianlin, and Wang Zengqi. The selected articles mostly revolve around the four seasons, but they also incorporate seasonal emotions, highlighting feminine characteristics such as cuteness, realism, and life style, and have a bright and light sweetness. When the plums are ripe and the gardenias are fragrant, whether they are in full bloom or the clouds are scattered, the moment when the scene
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Short Novel
120 Representative shots of life, 120 influential classics, find a quiet afternoon, a cup of tea, listen to the sound of flowers blooming, and savor the true feelings and tastes of life in "30 Years of Little Novels (The Essence of 120 Most Influential Little Novels in Contemporary China)" edited by Yang Xiaomin. Small story, big character.
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Tolerance and Freedom
Hu Yong promoted the vernacular, opened up the people's wisdom, and pursued democracy with his own actions. He was a role model for generations of young people. This book selects a number of Hu Shi's famous and representative articles and speeches on the themes of freedom, civilization, society, Chinese and Western culture, etc., Covering his academic culture throughout his life, involving a large number of life philosophy and social current affairs. The selected chapters in this book demonstrat
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May You Be Away for Half Your Life and Still a Young Man When You Return
Growth will make you gain something, and you will also lose something accordingly. This book not only tells the author's experiences and insights, gains and losses over the years, but also reflects on it. These reflections are also beneficial to more people like the author who have been sensitive, vulnerable, and hesitant, but have always insisted on being themselves. Give it to yourself who will never come back many years later. Whether you abandon it or own it is your own choice. No life is st
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At This Time All Living Beings
This is a weekly diary of life written carefully by Jiang Xun, starting in May of a certain year and ending in May of the following year. In each solar term, he observed and experienced the subtle changes in nature, recording the light and shadow of dawn and dusk, the fragrance of flowers and leaves, the sound of wind and tide in the forest, and the chirping of insects and frogs. From his brush-like writing style, we can reproduce precious memories, discover the beauty of life in the changing se
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The Record of Panic (Hardcover)
"The Record of Panic" is a collection of late essays by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, all of which are fragments of "fake diary". It is one of the author's masterpieces. It was a work that had been lost for a long time and was later collected and compiled by many Pessoa research experts. The author's position in the essay changes from time to time. Sometimes he is a spiritual person, sometimes he becomes a material person... This is the persistence in the change, the similarity in the diffe
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Zhu Ziqing's Prose
Zhu Ziqing is an outstanding essayist, scholar, and poet in the history of modern Chinese literature. His literary achievements are mainly concentrated in prose. This collection of essays includes Zhu Ziqing's famous works such as "Hurry", "Back View", "Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Oars and Lamps", "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond", "On Appreciation of Refined and Popular". Read Zhu Ziqing's works slowly and start a journey of fragrance.
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Crescent Moon Set
"New Moon Collection" is one of Tagore's masterpieces and has great influence. It has been translated into multiple language versions around the world. It is one of the earliest works of Tagore to be translated into Chinese. In the poem, the poet vividly describes children's games and skillfully expresses children's psychology and their lively imagination. Its special and timeless artistic charm brings us to a pure and beautiful world of children, evoking our fond memories and yearning for child
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Private Book
People are more often like a piece of manuscript paper. The elves in the starry sky occasionally fold their wings to write, and then they have notes. The words selected in the book are the traces of the spiritual project being carried out day and night, and the floating images of wandering between life and life, nature and reality, individual and group, human relationships and literary affairs. This "private book" is divided into five chapters based on time. Therefore, there is no deliberate cla
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The Qinhuai River in the Sound of Oars and the Shadow of Lights
This book is a prose written by Zhu Ziqing. Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), whose original name was Zihua and whose nickname was Qiushi, was later renamed Ziqing and whose courtesy name was Peixian. An outstanding modern essayist, poet, scholar, and democratic fighter. Born in Haizhou, Jiangsu (now Lianyungang City), he later settled in Yangzhou. His prose is simple and meticulous, clear, meaningful and melancholy, his language is concise, his writing is clear and beautiful, and he is full of true fe
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White Horse Lake Winter
This book is a growth book for teenagers and is a collection of personal works. This book selects articles suitable for teenagers to read from Xia Zunzun's classic works and collects them into a volume. By reading this book, readers can truly feel the charm of famous artists, comprehend rich philosophies of life, and appreciate the colorful world and life in the eyes of famous artists.
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Wait for a Flower to Bloom
The representative work of national cartoonist Kobayashi. The book is divided into nine chapters, including Xiaolin's healing cartoons, talented writings, photography of human fireworks, unique interesting talks about food from various places, and interesting interpretations of "The Book of Songs" and Tang poetry and Song poetry. Because the work was selected as a college entrance examination essay topic, Xiaolin wrote about three teachers who influenced his life, and recorded his dreams and gro
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Orange, Orange, Green, Semi-Sweet
"You must remember the good times of the year, the most orange and green." Selected more than 40 representative prose works by 16 literary masters such as Shi Tiesheng, Ji Xianlin, Wang Zengqi, etc., Divided into four chapters: "Spring Night Banquet of Peaches and Plums", "No Summer Events in the Mountains", "Osmanthus Falling in Leisure" and "The Sound of Broken Pine Branches". The four seasons of spring tea, summer fruits, autumn falling and winter brewing, the writer's pen also constructs a p
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Look up at the Moon Twenty-Nine Times
Zhang Haochen's first collection of prose essays in his writing career is also his brand new work after two years of absence. In this book, Zhang Haochen records his life in recent years, shares his life, the stories of people around him, and the insights derived from them. He cut himself open and revealed to the readers, including his past memories, his youthful past, his understanding of life, and his care for the people and things around him. For everyone, maybe the worst period has been over
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Daughter Red
This book is a collection of Jian Yu's creations between 1991 and 1996. It is complementary to "Rouge Basin", which was written at the same time, but has different themes and expression methods. This book explores the inner world of women, listens to their voices, and gets a glimpse of their emotions. It uses a genre between prose and novels to travel between various female appearances in the past and present. It insists on its own gender stereotypes, tracking and searching, and by not flinching
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All Song Ci
"Complete Song Ci" is a literary treasure that spans a thousand years, like a shining pearl in the bright galaxy, waiting for every reader who loves Chinese culture to come and explore. With its grand scale and rich connotation, it has become an indispensable classic for the study of Song Ci.
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Li Yu's Ci Collection
Li Yujing has certain attainments in calligraphy, painting, music, and poetry, especially his poetry. Li Yu's poetry inherited the tradition of Huajian poets such as Wen Tingyun and Wei Zhuang since the late Tang Dynasty, and was also influenced by Li Jing, Feng Yansi, etc. The language is bright, vivid, sincere, and distinctive in style. His poetry after the fall of the country has even more broad themes and profound meanings. It is unique among the poetry of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, a
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Living Clumsily Like Me
"Living Awkwardly Like Me" is a collection of essays chosen by the author. It includes the essence of Liao Yimei's 20 years of literary and artistic creation, including 9 conversations, 7 creative notes, classic lines from the drama "Rhinoceros in Love", "Softness", "Amber" and the novel "The Flower of Pessimism", and nearly 130 drama performance stills over the years... It has written unique insights into life, loneliness, pain, love and writing. It is brave and frank, without being pretentious
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Luo Yuming's Ancient Poetry Class
"Classic Poetry Lesson" is compiled based on the "Introduction to Classical Poetry" course taught by Luo Yuming, which has been popular for many years. In his narration, there is no distance in time and space between the readers and the poets. They stand in the same situation and taste life. Readers can feel their own life process while understanding the poems, and heal the anxiety of life. The language may be playful or humorous, or sharp and profound. There is no sense of "preaching" at all, o
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Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore
Open the reader's edition of "Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" and get started with basic reading of philosophical poetry! Recommended reading for the ninth grade (Part 1) of the unified Chinese textbook! Complete collection of "The Birds" and "The New Moon", as well as the remaining 60 representative works of Rabindranath Tagore's poems selected and translated by Zheng Zhenduo! Includes Tagore's handwritten paintings and original songs!
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Own Distant Place
In this prose, there are injured trees, bats driven blindly by brooms, and sparrows that cannot be fed. The screams and the brutal collision with the wall are full of shocking power. There are also the majesty of the mountains, the boundlessness of the grassland, the vastness of the sea, the depth of the cloud sky, the fragrance of flowers, the lushness of vegetation, the desolation of wind and rain, the joyful singing of birds... The text is leisurely filled with tenderness and joy.
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Human Vegetation
This book is divided into five chapters: "Human Plants and Trees", "Worldly Scenery", "Traveler Without Boundaries", "The Taste of Memory" and "Stars and Their Prose, Pure Person". It selects nearly 40 representative works of Wang Zengqi, presenting the essence of the author's decades of prose creation. Life is beautiful and people are poetic. Let art be generously integrated into words with the attitude of life, and describe timeless humanistic care in a lyrical style. There is a taste here, an
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My Loneliness Is a Garden: Selected Poems of Adonis (New Edition)
"My Loneliness is a Garden: Selected Poems of Adonis (New Edition)" is a selection and translation of seventeen poetry collections written by the translator in the nearly fifty years since the poet entered the poetry world. The poet Adonis is a rebel with a clear attitude, who fights against power and current customs with his indomitable stubbornness. His poetry is a window into the current situation of Arab society. He was saddened by the suffering suffered by his motherland, lamented that he w
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Xiao Hong's Collection
Xiao Hong, the "Luo Shen of Literature" in the literary world of the Republic of China, spent 31 years of turbulent life refining her writing that spans centuries. She is a "traitorous daughter" who escaped from the frozen soil of Northeast China, and she is also a talented writer whom Lu Xun praised as "powerful to see through the back of paper" - her writing is as penetrating as poetry, but also soaked in the roughness and pain of existence. This book selects the essence of Xiao Hong's creatio
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