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A Math Game: Thrown Into the Sea to Feed the Fish from the Start 数学游戏，开局被丢进海里喂鱼
When I thought these were just ordinary glasses, I found myself standing on a Mediterranean cliff in the centuries before the Common Era. When I thought all I had to do to survive was prove that √2 is irrational, I discovered I had become a “professional substitute” in the history of mathematics. From Hippasus to Galois, from Archimedes to Emmy Noether. When I thought this was only a personal fight for survival across history, the laws of physics in the real world began to collapse. An organ
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- 2 I Transmigrated to Newton’s Era, and Only I Know Mathematical Analysis 穿越牛顿时代，只有我会数学分析 A young mathematician from the 21st century transmigrates to Newton’s era. He invents no new theories, but launches a “revolution in the rigor of mathematical analysis,” replacing infinitesimals with epsilon-delta language and geometric intuition with axiomatic systems. In the end, he transforms mathematics from an art dependent on the intuition of geniuses into a modern science built on logical foundations, while choosing to become an anonymous founder in history. 66Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 3 The Empire's Economic Storm: The Qing Empire's Final 70 Years 帝国经济风暴：大清帝国最后70 Fiscal and economic affairs are the lifeblood of a country, exerting an enormous influence on the course of history. They also shape everyone's daily needs and activities, so the public has both the need and the desire to understand economic relations. Yet books on economics today are mostly academic monographs that struggle to attract readers, or else unofficial histories and legends that leave readers unable to tell truth from fiction. The late Qing dynasty, the last feudal dynasty and the one 83Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 4 The Fiscal Code 财政密码 History is the warp, economics the weft: an exploration of the rise and fall of dynasties through the lens of public finance. History is the warp, economics the weft: an exploration of the rise and fall of China's dynasties through the lens of public finance! The number one economics history book on Douban's popular list, rated 8.3 by ten thousand readers and with over 150,000 print copies sold! One of Guo Jianlong's "Code Trilogy," alongside "The Code of Philosophy" and "The Code of Military Af 1.8kReads9.4Score48714d adds
- 5 Three Thousand Years of Chinese Finance 财政中国三千年 What fiscal mechanisms sustained the long-term development and effective governance of the Chinese Empire? How did China's path toward becoming a modern state differ from that of the West from a fiscal perspective? What fiscal forces drove China's political development? China has a history spanning more than three thousand years, dating back to the Shang dynasty, the earliest period for which we have reliable written records. Drawing on the thread of public finance, Three Thousand Years of Fisca 74Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 6 Sixteen Lectures on Chinese Fiscal History 中国财政史十六讲 The Sixteen Lectures on the History of Chinese Finance does not focus on piling up traditional historical sources, nor does it follow a simple framework of time and place. Instead, it uses theories from the political economy of public finance to reinterpret financial history from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the present day. Through the lens of finance, it reveals the patterns behind the development of the Chinese state. By weaving together the evolution of financial thought and the practice 22Reads8.9Score814d adds
- 7 Guo Jianlong's Cipher Trilogy 郭建龙“密码三部曲” Historian Guo Jianlong's “Code Trilogy” examines the rise and fall of China's ancient dynasties through the lenses of finance, military affairs, and philosophy! The Financial Code explores the internal causes of dynastic change through the successes and failures of successive financial systems. The Military Code traces military strategy across geography and warfare, revealing why campaigns succeeded or failed. The Philosophical Code seeks the logic behind dynastic rule in the history of politica 254Reads9.4Score9914d adds
- 8 A Yuan Dynasty Guide to Getting Rich 元朝理财记 Did inflation bring down the Yuan dynasty? From Genghis Khan's rise to the Yuan dynasty's fall, this is a history of the dynasty's fortunes told through its finances. A contradictory system of government? Revenue buckling under the crushing burden of military spending? The long-term risks of a divided north and south? An inconsistent policy of Sinicization... This book explores the mystery of the Yuan dynasty's short lifespan from multiple angles. A new work by renowned historian Guo Jianlong! T 39Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 9 A Concise History of China: Power and Finance Behind Corruption Through the Dynasties 简读中国史.中国历代腐败背后的权力与财政 A detailed brief history of imperial rule and official corruption in China! The power game and the rules of finance, systems and checks and balances, grand designs and the naked human nature revealed by entrenched abuses: it is all real and brutal. The root of corruption throughout Chinese history has always been the absolute concentration of power. Without addressing the foundations of the power structure, corruption cannot be solved. The history of imperial rule has always been inseparable fro 188Reads9.1Score—14d adds
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I Crush the Cultivation World with Mathematics 我用数学碾压修仙界
Mathematics prodigy Lin Jianwei transmigrates into the world of immortal cultivation and discovers that immortal arts and divine powers are nothing more than functions, matrices, geometric probability! While everyone else is still struggling to comprehend the mysteries, he is already using calculus to derive supreme cultivation techniques and optimization to deconstruct divine restrictions. Cultivation? Break through in a second! Pills and formations? Optimize them with a wave of his hand! Geniu
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Tales of the Qing Dynasty 满清野闻录
Originally titled Ten-Leaf Anecdotes, this book recounts customs and notable events of the Qing dynasty, covering a wide range of subjects. The author devotes considerable attention to exposing the Qing court's many dark secrets. His scathing satire of Empress Dowager Cixi's autocratic rule and extravagance, as well as the arrogance and greed of the eunuch Li Lianying, comes vividly to life on the page.
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- 12 Day and Night 【朝夕】 Day and Night This is a story about growing up, about choices, and about love. An ordinary story, but never a dull one. A story that is still unfolding. Between day and night, find your own rhythm. Between gains and losses, find balance within yourself. Amid change, hold on to what has never changed in your heart. Because this is what real life, real relationships, and real growth are like. On the river of time, be the captain of your own ship and find your own direction. On life’s journey, 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Notes from the Taoyuan Garden 弢园笔乘 The Taoyuan Bicheng is a collection of essays and miscellanies compiled in his Taoyuan study by Wang Tao, a late Qing thinker, political commentator, and man of letters. It is an important source for understanding social changes in the late Qing and the practical application of Wang Tao's ideas. Wang Tao (1828–1897) was a highly influential figure in modern Chinese history. Not only was he an early advocate of reform, he also pioneered political commentary in the Chinese press. Lin Yutang hailed 4Reads7.9Score214d adds
- 14 A Brief Account of the Cantonese Rebels' Invasion of Hunan 粤匪犯湖南纪略 The Account of the Guangdong Rebels' Incursion into Hunan is an anonymous historical chronicle from the Qing dynasty. It is a local account from the late Qing period concerning the Taiping Rebellion and the Qing court's military campaigns against the rebels. In the title, “Guangdong rebels” mainly refers to the Taiping rebel forces, whom the Qing authorities regarded as bandits, while “incursion into Hunan” refers to the military and social events surrounding their movement from Guangdong into H —Reads7.6Score114d adds
- 15 The King Says: Essays on Unearthed Documents 王若曰：出土文献论集 This book is a collection of research papers written over many years by Professor Wang Lianlong on excavated texts, especially the organization and study of newly discovered stone inscriptions and related issues. It brings together twenty of his recent papers on excavated texts. Most of the papers make extensive use of excavated bamboo and wooden slips, stone inscriptions, and transmitted texts. From the perspective of philology, they focus on cataloguing, collating, collecting scattered texts, —Reads7.7Score—14d adds
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Idiom Cognition Dictionary: Unlocking the Algorithms That Shape Your Life 成语认知词典：解锁人生底层算法
A contemporary urban romance about a woman's growth and rebirth. The story begins on the night of her former lover Lu Chenzhou's lavish engagement party. Su Wan, a jewelry designer, chooses to stay alone in her studio, setting fifty-seven chips of diamond into a platinum base as she begins creating a pair of earrings called “Breaking Free.” Eight years of waiting and the collapse of her family's business have not crushed her. Instead, they have forged a quiet, resilient brilliance within her. W
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- 17 Career Leap: A Guide to Going from Rookie to Expert 职场跃迁：菜鸟到大神的认知法 Three months into the job, Ling Che has become the company's most miserable “office tool”: he takes the blame, works overtime, and gets dumped on by other departments. Colleagues steal credit for his hard work, connections get the promotion he deserves, and he earns an entry-level salary while doing core work. He's nearly laid off! At his lowest point, he unexpectedly awakens a Workplace Insight System and unlocks eight smart tools: The Entropy Reduction Engine sorts messy materials in three mi 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Day of the Beastly Disguise: A Plan to Reset Humanity’s Knowledge 异兽伪装日：全人类认知清零计划 The Day of the Disguised Beasts: A Plan to Erase Humanity's Understanding follows Lu Ming in an inverted world where “humans disguise themselves as beasts, while beasts infiltrate humanity.” He goes from an “ordinary student kept in the dark” to someone who “awakens supernatural powers, sees through disguises, and uncovers the truth about the world.” At the beginning of the novel, Lu Ming lives in “seemingly ordinary Qingteng City”: he goes to school every day, jokes around with his classmates, 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Bottom-of-the-Barrel Dictionary 底渣词典 The CEO’s Contract Wife: His White Moonlight Turns Out to Be Me To save her gravely ill younger brother, Pei Yuwei signs a contract and becomes a stand-in for the late wife of business tycoon Jiang Hanzhou. Thirty million yuan, three years: she must live as the shadow of another woman, copying her smile and preferences, even wearing the earrings she left behind. Jiang Hanzhou is cool and cruel. He sleeps beside her every night, yet gazes through her at his lost white moonlight. Day after day, 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 The Archaeology of Thought: A Handbook of Conceptual Dissection 思维的考古学：概念解剖工具书 This is an unconventional “dictionary,” as well as a precision tool for the mind. It offers no standard answers, only a scalpel called the “Three-Layer Archaeological Method,” used to dissect core concepts that shape our understanding and emotions, even though we use them every day without thinking about them, such as “I,” “love,” “perspective,” and “value.” Starting with outrage over the plot of an anime, readers will follow the author’s deeply thought-provoking and practical guidance to treat 162Reads—Score—14d adds
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Make Big Money with AI: A Deal Too Good to Pass Up AI帮你赚大钱，白捡的大便宜
AI Can Help You Make Big Money: A Deal Too Good to Pass Up is a book about the convergence of artificial intelligence and business. The author explains the applications and potential of AI in business in a clear, accessible way, and offers plenty of concrete examples and practical methods to show you how to use AI to create business value and develop innovative business models. Lively and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for anyone looking to master the use of AI in business and
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Strange Attractor 奇异吸引子
[Urban Suspense + Business Warfare + Financial Maneuvering + Period Drama] Donghai City, 2006. Lin Yuan dropped out of college and works as a network administrator at a securities firm, but he has an incredible ability: he’s pathologically sensitive to numbers and can spot patterns in a jumble of data at a glance. The candlestick charts no one else can make sense of look to him like unmistakable trails of a hunt. One day, a mysterious account dormant for years suddenly becomes active. Every t
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- 23 From Underachiever to Top Student: The Tyrannical Math Prodigy Falls for Me 学渣逆袭：霸道数学爱上我 I wrote this while I was in an unstable state of mind, so please go easy on me. [Underachiever’s comeback + School life + Coming of age + Young, innocent crushes + Inspiring ensemble cast + Occasional comfort] One day, Huang Jiajia, who fails every math test, suddenly discovers that her math textbook has come to life! And if that weren’t enough, it’s now pushing her to study! But the upside is that every time she levels up her math skills, she gets generous rewards! For example, she can order he 710Reads8.6Score14014d adds
- 24 The Scholarly Underdog Strikes Back: The Complete Trilogy 进击的学霸：全三册 This novel is about study strategies for high school students. It tells the story of a group of teenagers who encounter academic and personal struggles, then ultimately overcome them and grow emotionally. After doing poorly on the high school entrance exam, Xiuyuan arrives at the experimental class of a second-rate high school carrying enormous disappointment and resentment. It’s the start of his first year of high school, and everything is new, but he remains caught up in the fantasy that he’s 776Reads9.5Score16514d adds
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Livestream: Teaching Kids to Write Essays and Be Good People 直播：教孩子写作文，学做人
Writing compositions is easy! This book shows parents how to guide their children in writing and in learning how to be good people. Drawing on traditional Chinese thought, it explores methods and techniques for parent-child education.
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Reborn in 1980: I Lead My Whole Family to Prosperity 重生之1980年我带全家奔小康
Jiang Yuanchao died. After forty years of struggle, from being laid off in the 1980s to becoming an IT magnate in the internet age, he had witnessed the opportunities of every era and tasted the bitterness of missing his chance. On Lunar New Year’s Eve in 2026, a sudden heart attack struck him at the New Year’s Eve dinner table in his own villa. In his hand was a red envelope he hadn’t had the chance to give his grandson. When he opened his eyes again, he was back in 1980, the year he turned twe
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- 27 After Saving a Tycoon, My Food Delivery Side Hustle Went Wild 救下富豪后，我的外卖卷疯了 After Saving a Tycoon, My Food Delivery Orders Went Through the Roof 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 System Binding After My Doctoral Admission Was Revoked 博士录取被取消后的系统绑定 Bound to a System After My PhD Admission Was Revoked 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Reborn: The Foolish Young Man Becomes a Peerless Medical and Martial God 重生之傻子极品医武神婿 Protagonist: Qin Fei Setup: After being reborn, he becomes a “fool” in everyone else’s eyes and finds himself in a difficult situation. Background: Apparently a live-in son-in-law, known as the “Divine Son-in-Law.” Golden finger: Combining medicine and martial arts, he seems to possess both medical and martial skills. Style: A classic play-the-pig-to-eat-the-tiger, comeback, and face-slapping power fantasy. Typical plot developments: Stories of this kind usually follow this pattern: At first, he 83Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 I Transmigrated and Became a Live-In Son-in-Law in Ancient Times 穿越，我在古代当上门赘婿 Xu Ye, a modern young man, died suddenly after working overtime all night. When he opened his eyes again, he was slumped over a wine table by West Lake, with half an unfinished poem, “Ode to the Willow,” in front of him. Core conflict: His original body belonged to a penniless scholar who had gambled away his money and been tricked into joining the Bai family’s poetry gathering to find a live-in son-in-law. Now he was being publicly humiliated by members of the Lu family, as his golden finger fi 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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