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Rising Through the Official Ranks, Starting as a Secretary 官场从秘书开始
When hardship reaches its limit, good fortune follows. With a pure and earnest heart, Zhang Jun gets his lucky break and begins his career on the bench at an institute of traditional Chinese medicine. Skillfully navigating political maneuvering, officialdom, and human relationships, he wins allies at every turn and steadily rises through the ranks.
325.7kReads9.2Score17kShelves
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The Educated Youth Years: Starting with an Escape from the Village 知青年代，从村子里逃亡开始
During the years Liu Haibo spent in the countryside as an educated youth, he fell in love with Yang Xiuqing, a girl from the village. When he eagerly asked Yang Xiuqing's parents for her hand in marriage, they refused. He fled Shibantian Village and returned to Haicheng, a thousand miles away. Just as he married a woman named Wu Jie and prepared to start a new life, Yang Xiuqing came to his door...
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My Years as a Tomb Raider 我当摸金校尉的那些年
Forty years ago, a great flood exposed an ancient tomb from the Warring States period. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather led me back into the tomb. A ghost village deep in the mountains, black-haired zongzi, yin-yang child servants... My companions and I escaped death again and again, yet still couldn't get out of this cursed land! What caused both groups of tomb raiders to die horrific deaths? And what was it that scared my grandfather out of his mind? Never dig when dang
11.8kReads8.4Score931Shelves
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A Western-Obsessed Me Meets a You Born and Raised Here 崇洋媚外的我遇上土生土长的你
From worshipping all things foreign to protecting our culture, from conflict and division to integration and coexistence, this story seeks to explore how we can rediscover the roots of our cultural confidence in an era of globalization. Just as tea and coffee can share the same morning, tradition and modernity will eventually find a balance.
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I Have a Lover in My Hometown 我在故乡有情人
They are all ordinary people. Their language is the sort that accompanies everyday actions in real life: unconsciously, naturally, and simply, they speak of the things they intend to do and set about doing on the surface. They cannot reveal their inner essence or prove they have the right to act. Nor can they claim that the tragedy they belong to is free from the constraints of chance and the peculiarities of individual personalities. And they are even less able to reflect deeply and express the
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Treasure Boy: The Stay-at-Home Dad 宝藏男孩之家庭煮夫
The Treasure Boy Who Runs the Household
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A Deadly Escape from the Prison Mountain 越狱大山的生死逃亡
This novel tells the story of Chen Dashan, a farmer who was sentenced to prison after getting into a fight while selling mutton, all because he wanted to stand up for someone. In prison, he met Scarface and others. Egged on by them, he tried to escape, but someone reported them and the escape failed. Later, he and four others, including Scarface, had their sentences changed to life imprisonment and were sent to a prison in the far northwest. The four men clashed repeatedly with their group leade
5kReads8.1Score371Shelves
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You, My Desk Mate 同桌的你
The Girl at the Desk Beside Me
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Rising Through the Ranks 火线提拔
Qiao Yan witnessed someone jump to their death and was urgently promoted to investigate the real culprit behind it. But the case led him to a vast network of vested interests and a fierce battle. Relying on his own strength, he brought down the powerful forces and rose steadily through the ranks...
59.5kReads9.3Score7.9kShelves
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May the Rest of My Life Be Filled with Joy 余生皆欢喜
[Women's Growth + Marriage and Relationships + Emotions] Marriage is for happiness, and so is divorce! A new novel from Wang Erqiao, author of the acclaimed ensemble novel I Wish You Everlasting Joy! Marriage is for happiness, and so is divorce! Open this book and discover the happy lives of two girls who make different choices! Originally titled The Woman Holding a Flower of Happiness. After graduating from college, Sichuan native Wang Yanzi moves to Beijing to join her boyfriend, Wen Bo. Just
5.5kReads9.5Score806Shelves
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Seven Kilograms of Love 七公斤的爱情
Jian Nuo is always thinking about changing her name. She thinks it sounds so delicious that she'll never be able to lose weight.
4.8kReads9.2Score576Shelves
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I Wish Us Joy Forever 我愿常欢喜
[Women’s Growth + Romance and Marriage + Workplace + Relationships] Girls from different family backgrounds will all find their own happiness! A rose raised in a greenhouse will weather life’s storms, while a girl who grows like a weed will find her own spring. She is a rich girl from a big city, yet she falls prey to a gold-digging boyfriend, sexual harassment at work, and exclusion by her colleagues... She is a small-town academic who gets extorted by a fellow villager and drained by parents w
54.7kReads9.7Score7.3kShelves
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The Martial Emperor Comes to Qing: Wielding Dream of the Red Chamber to Restore the Ming 武皇临清：手执红楼复大明
“My empire! Who’s kneeling down and handing it over to someone else?!” Outraged by the late Qing’s incompetence and treachery, Wu Zetian and Zhu Di rise from the dead and travel through time in a fury. With the cipher key to Dream of the Red Chamber in hand, they restore the Ming dynasty…
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At Home in Another Land 本国他乡
Success doesn't depend entirely on ability. Sometimes, luck plays a much bigger role. If today's successful people had to start their businesses all over again, most of them probably wouldn't dare. This book tells the story of a man with thoroughly mediocre intelligence who defeats one cunning schemer after another. It can't help but make you wonder: between the clever and the foolish, who really has the upper hand?
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Good for Nothing 百无二用
This book is entirely made up. It does not refer to any person or event. If it happens to offend anyone, that is purely coincidental! If a scholar is useless in every way, what would it mean to be useless in every other way? Is there any truth to the saying that kindness cannot command an army and righteousness cannot manage wealth? Is the scariest thing in the world a thug who knows martial arts? There’s another possibility: a top student in a leadership position. Chen Xu, a core R&D team membe
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I Don't Have Superpowers 我没有超能力
This book is entirely fictional. There is no such thing as changing feng shui with traditional Chinese painting. Please don’t take it seriously; just enjoy it for fun! Mr. Liujiang was an ordinary, penniless painter until he met his master, Zhou Mingqi, who taught him a method for adjusting people’s feng shui and improving their fortunes. After five years of poverty, and with his master’s permission, Mr. Liujiang was finally able to use this supernatural ability to get rich. How did Mr. Liujiang
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The Upheaval of the Two Song Dynasties 两宋之变
This book traces the history of the confrontation between north and south, from the first lunar month of 1100, when Emperor Huizong, Zhao Ji, took the throne, to the 1141 Shaoxing peace agreement between the Song and Jin. It shows how the Northern Song Empire rose to prosperity, then plunged into decline and ultimately fell, while the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Song resisted step by step and eventually secured a foothold in the Jiangnan region. The book contains nine chapters coverin
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How People in Ancient China Lived 古人这样过日子
[A collection of standout articles from National Humanities History, a hugely popular history magazine published by the People’s Daily] 145 exquisite illustrations reveal the vivid history, authentic customs and traditions, and thousand-year-old Eastern aesthetics hidden in everyday life in ancient times. This book brings together the best articles from the National Humanities History magazine’s official account. Covering seven aspects of daily life, shopping, food, customs, entertainment, healt
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History at Its Boiling Point (Complete in Five Volumes) 历史的沸点（全五卷）
The Boiling Point of History 1: This book recounts nearly five hundred years of ancient Chinese history, from the Qin conquest of the six states to the reunification of China under the Jin after the Three Kingdoms period. Following the course of historical development and focusing on major events and figures, it tells the story of the Qin, Han, and Three Kingdoms across thirty-five chapters. Alongside the rise and fall of dynasties and the changing fortunes of individuals, the book shares the au
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The Sun and Moon Beneath One Sky: Princess Taiping 日月当空：太平公主
Princess Taiping was one of the most controversial and legendary female political figures in Chinese history, a thorny yet dazzling rose in the splendor of the High Tang. The most beloved daughter of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, she married Xue Shao at sixteen in a wedding procession stretching ten miles, hoping for a peaceful life. But she was implicated in Xue Yi's treason case and watched her husband starve to death in prison, shattering her dreams. She put away her innocence
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The Secret History of Wu Yanxiu, the Tang Dynasty’s Handsome Man 唐朝美男武延秀秘史
This is an imperial tragedy where desire and power intertwine. The young Prince of Huaiyang, Wu Yanxiu, was famed throughout Chang’an for his striking beauty. Wu Zetian sent him to the Turks to marry into their royal family, but they brazenly reneged on the agreement, claiming he was not a member of the Li imperial clan, and kept him hostage beyond the frontier for years. After returning home, his Hu Xuan dance dazzled the two most exalted women in the empire: Empress Wei and Princess Anle. With
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