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120 Years of the Late Qing and Republican Eras 晚清民国120年
[Book One: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: From the Jintian Uprising to the Founding of the Capital at Nanjing] “A transformation unlike any in three thousand years”: the tumultuous era is distilled into the 150 years spanning the late Qing and early Republican period. Extraordinary figures emerged one after another, as the fate of the nation and its people changed repeatedly. The times were against them, and their destinies were fraught with hardship. A penetrating vision and powerful prose cut throu
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Tales of the Republic 民国往事
How did Zhang Zuolin rise from an obscure bandit to a powerful warlord in the Northeast, and what kind of vile conspiracy lay behind the explosion at Huanggutun? What was the life story of Wu Peifu, who rose from a village-school scholar to a leading Zhili general, won fame on the battlefield, and established himself in Luoyang, and why did he end up abandoned by his allies during the Zhili-Fengtian Wars? Just how dashing was Cai E, the great general who defended the republic? Was his story with
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Memories of 1931: Hunting, Fighting the Japanese, and Raising a Family 回忆一九三一养家打猎打鬼子日子
In 1931, the Japanese invaded China. Ling Feng hunted to feed his family and fought the Japanese to capture supplies. He and his good brothers enjoyed the good life, built houses, and got married.
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The Rouge Calamity of War: Cao Feiyan, the Warlord 烽火胭脂劫：枭帅曹飞燕
She was born and her mother died because of it. At seven, her father sold her into a brothel. On the night she was forced to entertain her first customer at fourteen, Cao Feiyan drove a red-hot candlestick through the madam's throat. She fled into a ravine of the dead. When she was down to her last breath, the bandit chief lifted her chin. “Girl, can you handle a gun?” Five years later, the old chieftain died suddenly, and the three leaders were drenched in blood in the Hall of Brotherhood. No o
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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
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The Rise of Huaxia in Another Space-Time 异时空之华夏崛起
Studies have shown that parallel timelines exist. After dying, the protagonist arrives in another world at a stage equivalent to the late Qing dynasty in his previous timeline. Faced with an impoverished people, a backward nation, and the chaos about to erupt, he puts down bandits, nurtures talent, establishes factories, and secretly builds up his own power. Follow him as he carefully advances step by step and forges a dazzling life of glory! This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to
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