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Canongate Books Ltd.
Canongate is an independent publisher: since 1973 we’ve worked to unearth and amplify the most vital, exciting voices we can find, wherever they come from, and we’ve published all kinds of books – thoughtful, upsetting, gripping, beatific, vulgar, chaste, unrepentant, life-changing . . . Along the way there have been landmarks of fiction – including Alasdair Gray’s masterpiece Lanark, and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, the best-ever-selling Booker winner – and non-fiction too. We’ve published an American president and a Guantanamo detainee; we’ve campaigned for causes we believe in and fought court cases to get our authors heard. And twice we’ve won Publisher of the Year. We’re still fiercely independent, and we’re as committed to unorthodox and innovative publishing as ever. Please find the link to our latest Rights Guide with digitial content here: Rights Guide and our Canons Guide here: Canons Guide
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January 2021Two Centuries of the Grand Council
by Yuan Canxing
Centered on the Grand Council, the book deciphers the power operation of the Qing Dynasty and probes its secret history of the rise and fall. It vividly represents the honors or disgrace and ups and downs of key military figures in nearly 200 years of the Qing Dynasty, truly and comprehensively showing the important role of the Grand Council as a power center in the key moments of the Qing Empire. It is an integral history of the rise and fall of the imperial power center. The book is a masterpiece on the history of the Grand Council and the middle and late Qing Dynasty with a lively, detailed and accurate narration and humor and sprightly tone.
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January 2020Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
by Yuan Liaofan
The book is based on Confucianism and focuses on reformation, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and the study of life. The book is written in a simple, fresh and timeless manner and is highly readable. The author's extensive quotations and examples make this book a 'mini-encyclopaedia' of traditional Chinese culture. The Yuan Family Sermon is mainly a record of the daily teachings of Yuan's parents to their children, the contents of which can be cross-referenced with the Four Sermons of Yuan.
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Liao-Fan's Four Lessons
by Yuan Liaofan
It is the family instruction of Yuan Liaofan, a scholar of Ming Dynasty. The book is based on Confucianism, focusing on clarifying reforms, loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and the learning of living in the world.
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March 2013This is War: Teacher Yuan Tengfei's Lesson of WW1
by Yuan Tengfei
This book tells the story of WW1 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
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January 2013This is War: Teacher Yuan Tengfei's Lesson of WW2 1
by Yuan Tengfei
This book tells the story of WW2 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
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April 2013This is War: Teacher Yuan Tengfei's Lesson of WW2 2
by Yuan Tengfei
This book tells the story of WW2 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
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August 2021Cookbook of Suiyuan Garden
by Yuan Mei
Yuan Mei is a culinary expert with rich experience. His Cookbook of Suiyuan Garden is an important work that systematically introduces Chinese cooking skills and cuisines in southern and northern China. The gourmet’s Cookbook of Suiyuan Garden summarizes his 40 years of culinary practice. As an important masterpiece of Chinese food in the Qing Dynasty, it details the dietary habits and cooking skills in Jiangsu and Zhejiang during the Qianlong period with traditional Chinese essays, describes 326 popular cuisines from the 14th century to the 18th century in China, and introduces famous liquor and tea at that time.
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December 2025Zibuyu
by YUAN MEI
Yuan Mei, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty, compiled all the stories he heard about gods and ghosts, monsters, fox fairies, and even strange people and wonders. The story is concise and clear, the characters are concise and vivid, and the language is simple and natural. In many articles, it also shows its liberal, humorous and humorous language characteristics.
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The Emerald Land
by Yuan Ye
This book is a fantasy novel which written by Yuanye, who places his gaze on the prairie where his life came from, gazing at the unique experience of exploring nature by Mongolian children. Through the perspectives of teenager Baiyin, Suolong and Uncle Tonglaga, their fantastic adventures show the beauty of the prairie's animals, plants, and folklore. This is a fantasy world in the depths of the prairie, which reads fantastically and purely. The naivete of children, the simplicity of herders, the reverence of nature, the exploration of the unknown world, and the cherishing of culture grow in this prairie, where there are adventures and growth, pure laughter and tears, making people yearn for childhood.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2017History of Ancient Chinese Diplomacy
by Yuan Nansheng
Ancient Chinese diplomacy refers to diplomatic activities during the period from the beginning of ancient diplomacy to the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840. The manuscript describes the history of this period. The Xia, Shang, and Western Zhou Dynasties were the emergence and formation of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods were the development of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The Han Dynasty was the stereotype of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of ancient Chinese diplomacy. The period of transformation of ancient diplomacy. Ancient China's diplomacy is foreign affairs diplomacy. The revelation left is that the stronger the national strength, the more capable it can be, and the more rational compromise, the more it can make a difference. The readers of the manuscript are researchers of Chinese history and diplomatic history, and students of Chinese history and diplomatic history.
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December 2020One Year:Spring
by Yuan Cimei
There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This book is "Spring". It tells about the arrival of spring, Nini was sent to the countryside grandmother’s house, she was first immersed in missing her parents and then gradually started to feel the vitality of the growth of everything on earth. Significant changes in nature awakened her heart to perceive the beauty of nature.
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December 2020One Year:Summer
by Yuan Cimei
There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This volume is "Summer". This volume tells about the summer. Nini experienced the change of solar terms from “Lixia” (the beginning of summer) to “Dashu” (the great heat) in the countryside: “Xiaoshu” (the small heat) and “Dashu”, frogs and cicadas, and different stages of farming. Nini felt that it was completely different from the urban life.
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December 2020One Year: Autumn
by Yuan Cimei
There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This book is "Autumn". This book tells about the autumn. Nini experienced the change from “Liqiu” (the beginning of autumn) to “Shuangjiang” (the frost season) and felt the joy of the autumn harvest. The influence and enlightenment of countryside life revealed to her the charm of nature and the taste of agriculture.
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December 2020One Year: Winter
by Yuan Cimei
There are 4 volumes in the series, one volume per quarter and each volume containing six short stories. From the perspective of children, they can experience the beauty of spring, summer, autumn, harvest, winter collection, seasonal scenery, and thousands of ecological beauty. This volume is "Winter". This volume tells that winter was finally arrived and it is soon the time when Nini's parents would pick her up. However, Nini, who has gradually become accustomed to rural life, began to truly fall in love with the four distinct seasons of the countryside. With the arrival of “Dahan”, the last big cold solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, she reluctantly returned to her home in the city with her parents. The charm of nature and the taste of agriculture that countryside life revealed to her has become her eternal precious wealth.
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December 2016Yuan Longping’s World
by Chen Qiwen
The profound reportage, Yuan Longping’s World, pays a tribute to a hero of our time -- Yuan Longping, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and a great scientist. The reportage has comprehensively and profoundly demonstrated the patriotism and scientific spirit of Yuan Longping, and objectively showed the rigorous but interesting daily life of Yuan and his team. The work has accurately describes the research principle and process of hybrid rice technology,analyzes and clarifies the generally concerned transgenic doubts about hybrid rice in the form of literature for the first time. It has been the most authoritative and deep-going biography of Yuan Longping so far, and even the most approved version by Yuan Longping himself. Chen Qiwen, author of the reportage, who lays emphasis upon field work and longitudinal interview, has worked for three years on this book, and nearly visited the paddy bases throughout the country, and even around the whole world.
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Dream under the Harvest: The Story of Yuan Longping
by Deng Xiangzi, Xie Changjiang
Dream under the Harvest: The Story of Yuan Longping is a picture book about Yuan Longping's life experiences from childhood to becoming a scientist. The picture book highlights Yuan's scientist spirit with a child-friendly story and realistic drawings, tells the story of Yuan's life for the cause of hybrid rice, and presents his vivid and colorful life, his persistent spirit of exploration and his bright and open mind.
