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Books by 颜季铭
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Siheyuan 1955: From Unemployed to Factory Director 四合院1955：从待业到厂长
Chen Jianguo opens his eyes and finds himself lying in a rundown shack in southern Beijing in 1955. No household registration, no job, no referral letter, and less than a yuan in his pocket. He owes rent, and has only half a jin of grain coupons left. Luckily, he has a jade shard containing an acre of rich black soil and a spring with miraculous water. He grows vegetables, raises chickens, and trades at the pigeon market, working his way from an unemployed youth into a steel mill. Purchasing age
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- There Is Light in Changshan 常山有明 Yan Chengzong, a master's student in history, wrote his thesis on the transmission history of the Manuscript for My Nephew. He knew Yan Jiming all too well. In the two histories of the Tang, there was only one line about him: "Jiming, son of Gaoqing." When Changshan fell, he was captured by the rebels. He refused to submit and was killed. The word "killed" in the footnote was written with cool detachment. Then he was reborn as Yan Jiming. He was eight years old, in the third year of the Tianbao 0Reads0Flowers0Tickets