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Original title：	还可以的金女士
Translated title：	Ordinary Ms. Jin
Author(s)：	Jinzi 金子
Publisher：	Guangxi Normal University Press
Date published：	April 2025
# Pages：	240
ISBN：	9787559880154

As I begin writing this article, the recently published Ordinary Ms. Jin (original title: 还可以的金女士) ranks 12th on Douban’s list of trending books for July. So far, this brief memoir has gathered around 1,400 ratings with an average score of 8.2 out of 10. Roughly 1,500 readers have marked it as read, while more than 5,000 have added it to their want to read shelf.

Original title：	人性的深渊
Translated title：	The Abyss of Humanity
Author(s)：	Wu Qi 吴琪 / Wang Shan 王珊
Publisher：	SDX Joint Publishing Company
Date published：	May 2025
# Pages：	320
ISBN：	9787807684473

In January 2024, China executed Wu Xieyu (吴谢宇), once a star student at Peking University, for the murder of his mother nearly a decade earlier. The case has haunted the Chinese public ever since: not only because of the brutality of the act, but because this gruesome femicide seems to grow out of the very soil of academic aspiration, filial duty, and educational pressure that are so familiar to many young Chinese nowadays.