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Great Qin: I Reveal That I Transmigrated, Because Honesty Is My Policy 大秦：自曝穿越，主打一个坦诚
Good news: It’s finally my turn to transmigrate! Bad news: I’ve transmigrated to the end of the Qin dynasty. In five years, the First Emperor will die, and the realm will descend into chaos as heroes vie for supremacy. Good news: Five years is plenty of time to build up my strength and lie low while I grow. Bad news: The Black Ice Terrace has burst through my door. “Chen Qing, your case has come to light!” Good news: Your Majesty, I’m a transmigrator from the year 2200! I know the future of Grea
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The Ming Dynasty's Officials: Tyrant Zhu Houzhao 大明百官：暴君朱厚照
[Ming Dynasty’s Zhu Houzhao + court intrigue + cracking down on corrupt officials + sweeping through Mongolia + crushing the barbarians + opening up a New World] Drowning from the start, with civil officials always trying to kill me! Crush the landlords and put the Ming economy under state ownership! Let the red flags fly and open up nine continents and five seas! Rule the entire world: from the founding to the fall of the Ming, none can rival us!
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Master Calligrapher? Poet Immortal? Chief Minister? That's Right, I'm All of Them 书圣？诗仙？首辅？没错，都是我
In his previous life, Cui Xian was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from a top-tier university. In this life, he transmigrates to ancient times into a poor family with humble origins. There’s a destitute household, a pregnant mother, older siblings still young, a father who has failed the imperial exams six times, and a grandmother whose obsession with her son placing high in the imperial examinations has driven her to delusion. And then there’s Cui Xian, who is only eight years old. Cui
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The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令
[Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave
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Chinese History That Hooks You from the First Page 一读就上瘾的中国史
In Li Bai's eyes, Yang Guifei was “clouds hint at her robes, flowers at her face; spring breezes brush the balustrade, dew glistens in their splendor.” To Du Mu, she was “a horseman gallops through the red dust, the consort smiles; none knows the lychees have arrived.” But to Luo Yin, she was “Aman below must have something to say: this time, don't blame Yang Guifei again.” Which is the real Yang Guifei: the beauty, the favored consort, the profligate woman, or the heroine made to take the blame
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Five Thousand Years of Chinese History 中华上下五千年
Arranged chronologically, this book selects major events, influential figures, remarkable achievements, and brilliant cultural accomplishments from five thousand years of history. It strives to reach new heights in accuracy, appeal, and insight. Through a rigorous structure and innovative design, it explains Chinese history from every angle, offering fresh perspectives and multiple layers of analysis while vividly and concisely recounting the basic course of China's historical evolution and the
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A Half-Hour Cartoon History of China (Complete in Five Volumes) 半小时漫画中国史（全五册）
Read comics for half an hour and master three thousand years of history, with a crystal-clear timeline you can recite backward as soon as you finish. Using nothing but hand-drawn illustrations and jokes, Er Hunzi lays out the grand sweep of history with impressive clarity: the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were like a classroom; the Qin dynasty burned brightly and died young; the Three Kingdoms era came down to three great battles; the chaotic Wei and Jin period was full of oddbal
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Regrets of History 历史的遗憾
The Regrets of History combines history and literature, using clear, logical prose to tell the stories of famous historical figures and objectively recreate some of history’s most lamentable events. Drawing on works such as Zizhi Tongjian and Records of the Grand Historian, the author strives to reconstruct the facts and explore little-known stories about historical figures. The book also offers a thorough analysis of important events, seeking to present history as it really was. While respectin
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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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Heavenly Chess: The Path to Chess Sagehood 天弈：棋圣之路
[A brand-new setting] [Heroes at the Chessboard] What happens when chess meets heroic battles? When civilizations collide, would you dare to play against Heaven? After transmigrating, Zhuge Yi discovers that although modern Huaxia is prosperous and powerful, its people know almost nothing about their own history. The game Tian Yi, a chess game built around the heroes of the people, has become the world's mainstream pastime. At that time, the Huaxia chess world is weak, while Western chess dom
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Starting with Ying Zheng: Emperors of Every Dynasty Arrive One After Another 从嬴政开始：历代君王陆续降临
[Lighthearted + humorous + adventure] History buffs, enter at your own risk After Qin Shi Huang died, he was transported to a walled city. One day inside equaled one year in the outside world. Each time the city gates opened, the setting was different, bringing all kinds of fantastical adventures. On the third day, Hu Hai arrived. “Father, you have to get justice for me!” Twelve days later, Liu Bang arrived. “Brother Zheng, don't tell me you still don't know your Qin has fallen!” Wang Mang arriv
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Who Put a Yellow Robe on Me When It Got Cold? 天冷谁把黄袍披我身上
[Signed for print publication: ensemble cast + rival nations vying for supremacy + political intrigue and strategy + patriotism and national pride + original poetry + memorable supporting characters] [This is a fictional setting, and some historical references should not be taken as fact. This is not a mindless wish-fulfillment story. The plot is carefully developed, the logic is rigorous, and the cast and scope are large. There is no System or golden finger. There are no brainless villains or c
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My Wife Is the Eastern Jin Dynasty's Number One Female Demon 我老婆是东晋第一女魔头
The kings of the Sima clan turned their blades on one another. The northern barbarians ate their fill of human flesh. The aristocratic families fled south in terror. The starving commoners boiled their children in pots. Heroes fought for their lives on the battlefield, while nobles got high in their palaces. Sons killed fathers, younger brothers killed older brothers, daughters became slaves, and men became concubines... This absurd age was one long debauch. Tang Yu: “I just want to protect myse
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Sui-Tang: Inheriting the Overlord's Legacy and Stealing Guanyin Bi 隋唐：继承霸王遗产，截胡观音婢
[The animated series is out. Search for “The Great Sui's Co-Ruling Prince” on Hongguo] [Invincible God of War + Broken Engagement + Pledge Allegiance to Yang Guang + Feel-Good] Yang Ao transmigrates to the Sui-Tang era, engaged to Li Xiuning from the start. Hoping to lie flat after the wedding, he uses his advantage as a transmigrator to help the Li family plan their rise to power. But the Li family wants to ally with the Chai family through marriage, and throws Yang Ao out with a mere letter of
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Yanhuang! Yanhuang! Yanhuang! Yanhuang! Yanhuang! 炎黄！炎黄！炎黄！炎黄！炎黄！
Reborn as Zhao Yun’s elder brother, Zhao Feng awakens the National Fortune Sharing System, linking his fortune to that of Great Xia in the twenty-first century. The stronger Zhao Feng becomes, the stronger Great Xia becomes! He tempts Dian Wei with boxed lunches, lures Guo Jia away with Maotai, and trades glass marbles with Emperor Ling of Han for an official post. He pacifies the turbulent age, slaughters foreign invaders, and develops the world into a Chinese nation! Only those who can fight c
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Our Whole Class Transmigrated to Great Qin, and the First Emperor Made Me His Heir? 全班穿越大秦，始皇竟传我皇位？
[Group Transmigration + Power Struggles + Class Beauty + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Invincible] The entire class transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty. The class sports representative becomes the Crown Prince of Zhao? The class monitor becomes a princess of Han? The discipline committee member becomes the Crown Prince of Qi? … In the entire class, are all the princes and princesses of every state except Qin? Once they gain power, their human nature changes completely! But Zhao Cheng awakens a
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The Three Kingdoms: Forging a Heavenly Court from the Bronze Sparrow Terrace 三国之铜雀铸天庭
[Feel-Good Fiction] [Historical Beauties] [Generals] [Conquest] [From the Start] [Infinite Flow] [Invincible] Set against the historical cultures of various nations, Dynasty became a special online game in an era of upheaval. From the moment Lin Han obtained the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, the course of Dynasty changed. Zhang Jiao: “The Azure Heaven is dead; the Yellow Heaven shall rise. I can see that you have an extraordinary bearing and the makings of a hidden dragon. Would you be willing to beco
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Lu Bu, a Three-Surnamed Lackey? I've Got Countless Godfathers! 我吕布三姓家奴？明明干爹无数！
Lu Shu's soul travels to the late Han dynasty, where he becomes the infamous turncoat Lü Bu and gains the Super Adoptive Son System. As long as he pledges himself to a powerful adoptive father, he can earn all kinds of rewards from the System. And so the late Han dynasty's most filial son makes his debut. His own master is a god-tier expert, one of the Five Supreme Masters? Then he has to become his adoptive father! The great scholar Cai Yong has two lovely daughters? He needs to become their fa
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Three Kingdoms: I Can't Hide It Anymore, Cai Wenji Exposed Me 三国：瞒不住了，我被蔡文姬曝光了
Xiao Yun transmigrates into the Three Kingdoms era and quietly serves as a household servant for three years before finally unlocking the System. [Ding! Congratulations, Host, on successfully signing in for three years. All System modules unlocked.] [True Three Kingdoms: Unrivaled Hegemony System activated.] [Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have received the genetic enchantment of Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu, a divine weapon, the Dragon-Slaying City-Breaker Halberd, the Overlord’s ha
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Marrying Huang Yueying: It All Starts with Stealing Her from Liu Bei 迎娶黄月英，从截胡刘大耳开始
After transmigrating, he finds himself as Liu Feng, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang’s adopted son, whom they supposedly drove to his death. Is he really supposed to wait for A Dou to be born and let himself be forced to death? No! I, Liu Feng, will never yield! He binds himself to the Heroes Compendium. Like collecting stamps, gathering the mighty generals, strategists, and beauties of the Three Kingdoms earns him rewards? Liu Feng boldly takes up his little hoe! As the pages of the compendium are activ
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My Whole Class Is Full of Big Shots, So I Have to Inherit Wei Wu's Legacy 全班大佬，我只好继承魏武遗志
[Conquest of All Nations + Alternate History + Resurrection Game + Wei Wu] During an open lecture, everyone transmigrated together to a world of conquest. Here, everyone awakened an overpowered identity. And Qin Lang was just a commoner? Worse, he was assigned to a bitterly cold region on the western frontier? At a loss, Qin Lang squatted by the road and casually crushed an ant. To his surprise, he successfully recruited Sima Yi? He watched people play chess by the roadside and successfully recr
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Three Kingdoms: Reviving the Han, the Romance of Shu 三国：中兴大汉，蜀之浪漫
[This book is being published. Stay tuned.] (Conquest, strategy, iron-blooded heroics, beauties, System) After transmigrating as Liu Feng, Liu Bei's adopted son, he knew the fate that awaited him: losing favor, being marginalized, becoming a pawn to be discarded, and ultimately falling into a deadly trap. In this life, he chose to endure and bide his time, then turn the tables when all seemed lost! From the start, he risked his life to save Liu Shan at Changban Slope, earning a reputation across
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I Lift Mountains and Carry Cauldrons in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Terrifying Yang Guang 我在隋唐拔山扛鼎，吓坏杨广
Qin Yuan transmigrated into the chaotic Sui-Tang era. By chance, he obtained a System and began cultivating mystical arts that defied the natural order. According to its cultivation methods, he could gain the strength of dragons and elephants. He would show every hero of the Sui and Tang dynasties what it meant to overcome every technique with sheer strength. “What? Li Yuanba lifted a three-thousand-catty bronze lion statue?” “Bring me a five-thousand-catty one to warm up my legs!” When Qin Yuan
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Great Ming: The Strongest Crown Prince in History 大明：史上最强太子
[Great Ming] + [System] + [Invincible] + [Feel-Good Story] He transmigrated as Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son, Zhu Biao, the crown prince with the most secure position in history! He awakened the Fortune Golden Egg System! Once a year, he could smash open a golden egg. The stronger his fortune, the more amazing the prize! A flawless body, peerless swordsmanship, a divine command... With the System's support, he became the greatest crown prince in history! Under Zhu Biao's leadership, the Great Ming
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The First Emperor Made Me His Successor, and I Accidentally Extended the Dynasty by a Thousand Years 始皇让我当二世，不小心延续千年
Also known as: Did I unify the Six Kingdoms or the Six Realms? [Passionate] [Thrillingly satisfying] [Farming and conquest] [A veteran author who’s spent ten years pouring heart and soul into writing, guaranteed quality!] [Two Systems, one for each father and son] In the year 2333 of the Great Qin era, elementary school students from Great Qin visit the Great Wall. The children marvel at the wall’s grandeur and magnificence. Their teacher explains, “The Great Wall is a defensive fortification bu
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By the Sui Emperor's Command: Wipe Out the Northern Barbarians, Nation and People Alike 奉隋帝口谕，四方胡虏，灭国灭种
Wu Xin transmigrates to the Great Sui Dynasty and obtains an Abstract System. He can grow stronger by driving other people to the brink. Keep your spirits up, don't lose points. That's the way! Wu Xin: Yuwen Huaji, I'm coming for you first thing in the morning! [You drive Yuwen Huaji over the edge. He crashes his head against a pillar in front of everyone. You gain the strength of two elephants!] Wu Xin: Li Shimin, you really think your brother Li Yuanba is invincible? Today I'll show you there'
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Make Me Prince Consort Again, and I'll Start a Rebellion 再让我当驸马，我就要造反了
Based on the original novel of the short drama The Foolish Son-in-Law of Great Qian. Qin Mo, a single history nerd, transmigrates to Great Qian and becomes the foolish heir of the Duke of Qin’s household. He only wants to spend his life carefree, raising fighting roosters and walking his dogs, but everyone keeps pressuring him! Duke of Qin: Son, I’m begging you. Please marry the princess! The Emperor of Great Qian: My good son-in-law, you’re my lucky star. You have to be the imperial son-in-law
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A One-Night Substitute Bride: My Comatose Husband Begs Me to Let Him Go! 一夜替嫁，植物人老公求放过！
[Substitute Bride + Sweet Romance + Marriage Before Love + Face-Slapping and Scum-Bashing] Su Yiyi was tricked by her older sister and tied to a huge bed, where a strange man pinned her beneath him. Her eyes reddened as she asked, “W-who are you?” The man's deep, magnetic voice whispered in her ear. “I'm your husband!” One wild night later... When Su Yiyi woke up, she discovered that she'd been forced to take her sister's place and marry Fu Tingxiu, a powerful tycoon of the empire. But wasn't Fu
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Tales of the Southern Ming 南明那些事儿
Hu Tao, pen name Shicheng Donglin, was born in the late 1980s or early 1990s. He graduated from Wuhan University with a master's degree. He has read history since childhood, and as he grew older, he explored all kinds of other books as well. At university, he studied advertising and history in turn, so his writing combines an advertiser's unusual imagination and wide-ranging associations with a historian's sound reasoning and meticulous rigor.
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The Great Qin Empire: Abridged Edition (Five-Volume Set) 大秦帝国：精华版（全五册）
During the Warring States period, when rival kingdoms battled for supremacy, Qin was a weak state on the northwestern frontier. Hemmed in by aristocrats at home and watched by powerful enemies abroad, it stood on the brink of extinction. At this critical moment, Qin produced a succession of wise rulers and able ministers. In just over a century, it went from a weak state that could only take a beating to an invincible power that swept all before it. After Duke Xiao of Qin took the throne, he rec
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A Close Reading of the Seventy Years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 细读五代十国七十年
Was the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms a step backward in history? How did the recurring dynastic upheavals of the Five Dynasties profoundly affect the Song Dynasty? What criteria did Ouyang Xiu use to define the “Ten Kingdoms”? If Li Cunxu had not grown arrogant and indulgent, or if Chai Rong had not died so young, which of them would have been more likely to end the chaos? Read A Close Look at Seventy Years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
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The Seven Faces of the Ming Dynasty 大明王朝的七张面孔
This book focuses on seven figures whose lives reveal the workings of the Ming dynasty: An emperor: Zhu Yuanzhang; a usurper: Zhu Di; an upright official: Hai Rui; a eunuch: Wei Zhongxian; a rebel: Zhang Xianzhong; a traitor: Wu Sangui; and a loyal minister: Zheng Chenggong. Through literary portrayals of these seven figures in their historical and cultural settings, it examines the little-known hardships, anxieties, and difficult choices behind their lives, presenting the Ming dynasty in all it
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The Republic Era Was This Wild (4-Book Set) 民国就是这么生猛（共4册）
Exclusive historical sources, fresh perspectives, China’s answer to WikiLeaks. The “new master of humorous history” Wu Man Lan Jiang boldly brings the history of the Republic of China to life! The Xinhai Revolution swept away the old order, and the early Republic was a time of clashing forces and momentous encounters. Fierce battles and breathtaking political schemes make this period of history all the more tragic and stirring!
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A Close Reading of Two Hundred Years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties 细读南北朝二百年
The more than 160 years from the Liu Song dynasty's replacement of the Jin to the Sui dynasty's destruction of Southern Chen was a distinctive period in Chinese history. During this time, the Huaxia empire, led by Han civilization, stood in prolonged opposition to states founded by northern nomadic peoples. The intermingling and conflict among different peoples, which had begun during the Two Jin period, continued to intensify. From the perspective of people living at the time, this was certainl
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Huhai: Rebooting the Qin Empire 胡亥：重启大秦
After transmigrating, modern man Chen Mo finds himself in the body of Hu Hai, Qin Er Shi: the infamous ruler who brought his dynasty to ruin, a puppet emperor manipulated by the powerful minister Zhao Gao. With the Great Qin Empire on the verge of collapse, Hu Hai draws his sword. Kill Zhao Gao and restore order to the court! When the court calls a deer a horse, he will answer with blood! He exterminates treacherous ministers and promotes the loyal, turning the decaying Xianyang Palace into a
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