The Library
Books, Films & Photography
Works that let readers enter another world from the inside.
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Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang · 2008
A documented account of factory labour in China, used here as a library relation for CMS query verification.
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《education》
Tara Westover · 2018
I came to it because it is a first-person account of growing up outside school, then having to enter a world that already had rules.
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庆历四年秋
Xia Jianyong (夏坚勇) · 2023
I came to it because a recitation every 1980s schoolchild knows — 庆历四年春，滕子京谪守巴陵郡 — never told me who Teng Zijing was, or what year 庆历 was. This book did.
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王医生与张医生
Yi Xianfeng and Yang Ying (伊险峰 杨樱) · 2021
I came to it because it follows two doctors out of the northern industrial world, and because chapter 8 names a split I grew up inside: one child kept for school, one sent out to learn the street.