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The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms 东周列国志
More than five hundred years of upheaval in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods unfold in this book! The Zhou royal house declined and the feudal lords rose. The Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period took turns dominating, while the Seven Warring States fought for control of the Central Plains. From the brief hegemony of Duke Zhuang of Zheng to Duke Huan of Qi uniting the feudal lords; from Wu Zixu’s quest for revenge to the battle of wits between Sun Bin and Pang Juan; from
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Chronicles of Mountains and Rivers 山河志
His beautiful mother was nearly assaulted by a village lout, but she tearfully begged the man who rescued her not to call the police. Young Gao Yuan couldn’t understand why at the time. Only when he reached his thirties and looked back on the past, with those scenes flashing through his mind, did he realize that the lives of countless rural people together form a chronicle of the mountains and rivers of China!
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Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀
Living Sacrifice
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- 54 My Years as a Ghost Constable 我当鬼差的那些经历 My Experiences as a Ghost Constable 422Reads—Score—Shelves
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National Treasures: 100 Artifacts Tell the Story of Chinese Civilization 国家宝藏：100件文物讲述中华文明史
Treasures of China: 100 Artifacts That Tell the Story of Chinese Civilization selects 100 treasured artifacts from major museums across China. Following the historical course of Chinese civilization, it tells the stories behind these national treasures and reveals the cultural significance they embody, as well as the development of Chinese civilization. Bringing these scattered treasures together means you can appreciate their appeal without leaving home and truly feel the breadth and depth of C
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Delfino: Endless Summer in Those Years 查理九世：那些年无尽夏
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- 57 Artifacts Are Full of Surprises 文物超有料 An incredible guide to China's national treasures. They're not only adorable, they're full of history, too! Bronze Sacred Tree: We're not aliens, we're from the Sanxingdui culture. Sword of Goujian, King of Yue: Sorry, we refuse to be marketed as a set with the spear of Fuchai, King of Wu. Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow: Has anyone ever thought about how the swallow feels? Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains: Out of the way! This artist is ready for a comeback. A collection of 20 tren 102Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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The Wolf's Schemes and the Strategist's Plans 狼谋人策
In the mid-1950s, on the Great Northern Wilderness along the Sino-Soviet border, a deadly contest between a man and a wolf king begins amid the work of farming the land. The disabled veteran Sha Ren settles in Mishan, where he comes face to face with a wolf king who fled the Soviet Union: Lao Tao. To survive, they fight each other to the death. This beast has battled golden eagles, killed wild boars, raided horse herds, wiped out wolf packs, fought black bears, challenged packs of jackals, and t
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- 59 Super National Treasure (Two-Volume Set) 超级国宝（全2册） This book is adapted from the audio program Treasures of China, which ranked among the top sellers on Ximalaya and earned a rating of 9.8. Fifty presenters from China's first-grade museums tell the extraordinary stories of 100 national treasures. These artifacts come from more than 40 museums, including the Palace Museum, the National Museum of China, the Shaanxi History Museum, the Shanghai Museum, and the Nanjing Museum. Spanning collections such as ritual bronzes, paintings and calligraphy, m 38Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 60 The Official and His Charms 官人官色 The road to becoming an official is narrow, so narrow that if you want to climb it, you can only step on other people's shoulders. Yet it is also broad enough to encompass everyday life and the people's hardships. Along this road lie intrigue and shifting fortunes, ruthless decisions, and love and hatred... 264.5kReads9.4Score18.9kShelves
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I Spent Ten Yuan on a Secondhand Marketplace and Bought a Fiancé 我在二手平台花十块钱，买了个未婚夫
I Spent Ten Yuan on a Secondhand Marketplace and Bought Myself a Fiancé
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- 62 Lie Flat Immortal Venerable 躺平仙尊 [Rapid-fire laughs + lighthearted + no romance] Lin Xian transmigrates to a cultivation world gripped by cutthroat competition. His previous incarnation was the ultimate grind king, who worked himself to death from cultivating nonstop. Lin Xian binds himself to a System that rewards him with cultivation whenever he rests, lies flat, or slacks off, but punishes him if he cultivates seriously... 1.2kReads—Score103Shelves
- 63 The Day My Husband Turned Gentle, My Best Friend’s Marriage Died 老公变温柔那天，闺蜜的婚姻死了 The Day My Husband Turned Gentle, My Best Friend's Marriage Died 5.9kReads—Score—Shelves
- 64 I’m Sneaking Glances at Her, and She’s Sneaking Glances at Me 我在偷看她，她也在偷看我 I was sneaking a look at her, and she was sneaking a look at me too 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 65 I’m Dead, But Not Entirely 朕死了，但没完全死 I Am Dead, But Not Entirely 2.1kReads—Score—Shelves
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Lin Huiyin 林徽因
Lin Huiyin was one of the most legendary women of the twentieth century. Though frail in health, in her 51 years she established China’s first architecture department, discovered the Foguang Temple timber structure dating back to the Tang dynasty, designed the national emblem and the Monument to the People’s Heroes, and left behind poetry that would never be forgotten. As her love stories are endlessly retold, we forget how she surveyed ancient architecture amid the flames of war, wrote books fr
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- 67 From Abandoned Disciple to Demon Venerable: My Master Kneels Before Me 从弃徒到魔尊，师尊向我下跪 From Abandoned Disciple to Demon Lord: My Master Kneels Before Me 162Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Snake-Man I Found in the Trash Pretends to Have Amnesia Every Day, but the Comments Say He Wants to Marry Me 垃圾堆捡来的蛇人天天装失忆，弹幕说他想娶我 The Snake Man I Found in a Garbage Dump Pretends to Have Amnesia Every Day, and the On-Screen Comments Say He Wants to Marry Me 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 When a Man Becomes a Country Girl, the Whole Family Starts to Tremble 当男人变成农村女孩，整个家都开始发抖 When a Man Turns Into a Rural Girl, the Whole Family Starts to Tremble 199Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Selected Writings on Architecture by Lin Huiyin 林徽因建筑文萃 She was a poet of extraordinary talent, a penetrating critic, and an accomplished architectural scholar. She was a lover who lingered in the heart, a friend who made everyone feel at ease, and a wife who could share every hardship... She was Lin Huiyin, the woman hailed as “talented and beautiful” in nearly a century of Chinese cultural history, embodying romance, legend, artistic gifts, learning, and beauty. Her articles and discussions on architecture, including her views and assessments of an 2Reads8.0Score—Shelves
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Dark History: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 暗黑历史系·亚瑟王与圆桌骑士
“The renowned King Arthur rests here on the Isle of Avalon.” So reads an inscription at Glastonbury Abbey from the 12th century. Long before the Marvel Universe, there was the romantic world of King Arthur, a legendary figure of the West. This book explores the historical foundations of the Arthurian legends, and how their characters, stories, and themes developed through history, poetry, and prose. In polished, authoritative writing, the author examines the intersections of literature, mytholog
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Unofficial History Isn't Necessarily False 野史未必假
[The full-cast audio edition is now available. Give it a listen!] From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the Ming and Qing dynasties, discover the truth behind popular unofficial histories! This book examines 22 popular historical tales from China’s earliest dynasties through the Ming and Qing, using vivid reconstructions, close study of historical sources, and logical analysis to uncover the truth behind them. Was Qin Shi Huang’s biological father Lü Buwei? Did Emperor Taizong of Song m
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Poor Thing! President He’s Obsessively Doting on Her Day and Night 可怜的她！被病娇贺总日夜宠爱！
[Ruthless hero + no escape + 22-year age gap + dark and intense + deranged, possessive love + no scruples + powerful man, vulnerable woman + both are each other’s first and only + marriage before love + innocent heroine + winning her back] Deranged, possessive financial magnate uncle × naive, timid little bunny Wen Tongtong lived in the wealthy He family’s home, where food and clothes were always brought to her. Outsiders envied her life beyond measure. But Wen Tongtong knew that although she en
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- 74 My Life Is Yours 我的命，都给你 Ji Mingshu hated Xu Meiling with all his heart and tormented her until she died. But when she was really gone, Ji Mingshu realized... he had fallen in love with her. 1.7kReads8.1Score207Shelves
- 75 No One in the World Is Like Her Anymore 世上无人再像她 Shen Ange knew that love could leave you battered to the bone, but without love she would become a walking corpse. Stubbornly, she believed that life was long enough for her to wait until he came back to her. In the end, though, she could no longer hold on... 1.6kReads8.1Score168Shelves
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Strange Outdoor Expeditions 诡异户外探索
Phones are inseparable from daily life and constantly in the public eye. Livestreaming on phones has become a way for some people to explore the world and make money… Wang Fan was a professional online celebrity. At first, he livestreamed himself singing and chatting with viewers online… As time went by, singing and chatting on livestreams were no longer enough to satisfy his audience. A chance outdoor outing led him to explore outdoor livestreaming.
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A Glorious Dream, Mountains and Rivers Far Away 浮华梦山河远
Is marrying up into a noble family a ladder to the clouds, or a blade at your throat? Everyone envies a merchant’s daughter who marries into a marquis’s household. But after a torrential rain in Huazhou, everything changes. Her husband gets caught up in the succession struggle, and she’s abducted by human traffickers... Even her family thinks she’ll never come back. But she not only returns, she also becomes the owner of Baoxing Trading House. Every time you think she’s finally found her foo
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Matters of the Soul 灵魂的事
If this life has left you with too many regrets, then when your luck is at its worst, especially once the feelings that follow a run of bad luck have gradually settled or gone numb, spend some time alone and smoke a cigarette. You might as well think about your next life. Feel free to imagine it as you please, or even design it for yourself. At times of misfortune, I at least think it's a good remedy: first it calms your mind, then it lifts your spirits. If, as an adult, you can't look back fond
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A History of the Ming Palace 明代宫闱史
Venture deep into the palace to explore the love and hatred between emperors and their consorts; delve into history and discover the twists and turns of feudal dynasties. Understand this series, and you understand the palace. Understand the palace, and you understand history. Understand history, and the realities of the world become clear. Palace romances are an important branch of traditional historical fiction.
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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Dream of the Red Chamber: Metaverse 红楼梦元宇宙
Keywords: #DreamOfTheRedChamberMetaverse #CyberpunkTraditionalChineseMedicine #AntiClicheTransmigrationIntoABook #HealthcarePunk #DreamlandLivestream [A viral, wildly imaginative premise] What if the 108 heroes of Dream of the Red Chamber all transmigrated and opened a hospital? The Fairy Disenchantment becomes the hospital director, and Jia Yucun handles administration, turning a top-tier hospital into a Dreamland livestream! Jia Baoyu writes prescriptions in verse, Lin Daiyu uses her tears f
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- 82 The Legend of Yue Fei 岳飞传 A historical epic novel by Huan Zhu Lou Zhu. Based on the life of Yue Fei, the famous Southern Song general who fought against the Jin, it begins with Yue Fei learning martial arts as a boy and vowing to serve his country. It vividly depicts how he formed the Yue Family Army, fought the Jin forces, and won one victory after another, until he was framed by treacherous officials and met a tragic end. The novel celebrates his unwavering loyalty and devotion to his country. 990Reads9.6Score—Shelves
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After I Learned Her Secret, She Took Me to the Civil Affairs Bureau 我知道她的秘密后，她却带我去了民政局
After I Learned Her Secret, She Took Me to the Civil Affairs Bureau
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- 84 Adoption into the Family 过继 This is a novel about a man growing up through blood and tears. Along with the cruelty of reality comes the trickery of fate. But if you’re a man, wipe away your tears and face every hardship. Make yourself tough as steel, unbreakable... 29.9kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 85 Work the Immortals and Buddhas to Death! The Liangshan Heroes' Cross-Time Adventures 卷死仙佛！梁山好汉的跨时空生涯 (A convention-defying ensemble novel blending classical chivalry, modern absurdity, and cultivation that leaps across the bounds of imagination!) When the Liangshan heroes are sucked into a modern city by a bizarre heart lamp and forced to don yellow uniforms as food delivery riders, their cultivation path takes a sharp turn… Nantianmen milk tea, Five Elements Mountain vegetarian meals, and Moon Palace desserts? Those are just basic orders! Life-saving medicine in a cyberpunk world, clean water 53Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 86 Party Struggles Throughout Chinese History 中国历代党争 Chinese Factional Struggles Through the Ages is a history of power struggles between factions, between factions and imperial authority, and between individuals. Using strategy as its thread and history as its fabric, it recounts a host of tangled stories. Covering three thousand years of factional strife, from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods through the Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the book details major events, rises and falls, triumphs and humiliations, and 302Reads7.7Score100Shelves
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Rookie Season 菜鸟季
The tree-lined avenue was the school’s annual rings. Beneath the shade of century-old parasol trees, their mottled, hardened trunks were covered in knots like the display walls of a museum. They seemed to tell the people sheltered beneath their branches stories of a distant past. Standing there, you could clearly see the footprints their predecessors had left beneath the fallen leaves, and clearly hear their sonorous recitations, their quiet love songs, and their ringing vows. A group of sunny y
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Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶
[Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w
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- 89 Delta Force: Knife-Running for Extra Lifespan, with a Thousand-Slot Secure Case 三角洲：跑刀爆寿命，我万格保险 [Delta Force lore · Hafk's favorite son · brainwashing humor · Vangard insurance] Delta Force has descended into reality. Running raids earns you more years of life. Fail to extract, and you lose a year of life. To stay alive, you have to spend years of your life in the Delta Force marketplace to buy necessities. Fried noodles: half a year of life. Cement: four years of life. A mantel clock: twenty years of life. During the Battle of the Breach, Jiang Tian obtains the Heart of Africa, worth 43.2kReads9.1Score7.4kShelves
- 90 A Complete History of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (Complete in Eight Volumes) 五代十国全史（全八册） The prosperous Tang dynasty, its fine-robed officials and noble families: in the end, even they could not stem the tide. The complete eight-volume History of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is a popular history of the late Tang and Five Dynasties periods. Grounded in historical sources, it uses careful logical analysis and lively, witty prose to recount this turbulent and unpredictable era. It focuses on major events over the century or so from the late Tang Huang Chao Rebellion to the Song 1.5kReads9.5Score401Shelves
- 91 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 232.8kReads9.5Score28.3kShelves
- 92 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 711.1kReads9.6Score100.9kShelves
- 93 The New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 The New History of the Five Dynasties was written by Ouyang Xiu of the Song dynasty. Originally titled Records of the Five Dynasties, it came to be called the New History of the Five Dynasties to distinguish it from the official history compiled by Xue Juzheng and others. It records fifty-three years of history, from the first year of the Kaiping era under the Later Liang (907) to the seventh year of the Xiande era under the Later Zhou (960). The New History of the Five Dynasties provides more d 13Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 94 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.6kReads9.6Score70.4kShelves
- 95 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.5kReads9.7Score69kShelves
- 96 City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 473.6kReads9.7Score67.7kShelves
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Heshen: Master of Power 和珅：权力的玩家
As a miniature reflection of the power structure during the Qianlong era, Heshen's life was forever entangled in the shadow of absolute imperial authority and the deep-rooted ills of the bureaucracy. From a penniless orphan living under another's roof in Lvrou Hutong to rising to the center of power through his gift for languages and financial acumen, his ascent was shaped by both the banner system and the emperor's political machinations. He was once a capable official who cleaned up the Minist
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A History of Chinese Institutions 中国制度史
This is China's first true work of general history, and it was also written in the vernacular. It became renowned in the early years of the Republic of China. The famous historian Gu Jiegang said that it “opened a new era in the writing of general history.” The book begins with the myths of primordial antiquity and continues through 1922, dividing history into five periods: ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary. It spans more than five thousand years, while offering detailed
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- 99 The Little Spy's Rise to Power 谍战小特务的逆袭 He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation... 187.4kReads9.5Score20.5kShelves
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Tales of the Past in Time 时光里的往事故事
Synopsis of Stories from the Years Gone By Steam rises from the stove, blurring her features. He smiles and reaches out to wipe the droplets from her temple. Amid the sewing machine’s steady clatter, they piece their patches together into flowers, making gentle blossoms bloom in their humble life. There are no earth-shaking vows in this book, only affection warmed by a coal stove, half an umbrella shared in a rainstorm, and half a flatbread split between them in an era of ration coupons. When a
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