
The Sorrows of the Ming: Joking About Li Zicheng
明殇之笑侃李自成
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 265k Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Historical & Ancient
- Updated
- 1y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
Synopsis
Other names
- 大明王朝的落幕Alternate title on Fanqie
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It can be seen that the author is a scholar who is good at summarizing historical experience and lessons, and is accurate and pragmatic! Well written!
A wonderful historical novel with interesting language and worth reading. The chaos in the late Ming Dynasty is explained thoroughly!
The language is easy to understand and very humorous.
Easy to understand and humorous
🈶The taste of the drama is generally good, I hope you will continue to work hard...
It's good-looking, but a bit verbose, not as good as Shan Tianfang's Weiburn. OK [OK]
Sister hahahaha