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Books by 末日七夕
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The Years of Jingmin 京民岁月
In 1949, eighteen-year-old He Shunzi, a shop assistant at a pickled-vegetable store in the hutongs, married Xiurong, the shopkeeper’s only daughter. The wedding was simple: they set out three tables of food in Houtongli Hutong. From then on, He Shunzi went from shop assistant to something like a junior shopkeeper. Then society began changing at breakneck speed, and the next thirty years swept by mercilessly for this young shop assistant. Was the era moving too fast, or were people slow to adapt?
999Reads—Score115Shelves
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I Was Once a Convict 我本罪卒
A special forces soldier transmigrates into the body of a condemned convict. Trapped in a desperate situation with his entire army wiped out, he relies on modern tactics and strategy to fight his way back from the frontier’s deadliest reaches to the heart of power, clearing his wronged family’s name and vindicating his fallen brothers.
160Reads6.8Score—Shelves
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Cornmeal in the Heart 心窝的棒子面
Set in Bahe Village, Beijing, this novel follows the changing lives of the Zhao Dehou family over the thirty years from 1949 to 1978. With the image “As long as the cooking pot is here, the family is still together” at its heart, the family’s ups and downs reflect the history of rural China, from land reform and collectivization to the Great Leap Forward, the People’s Communes, the difficult years, the Cultural Revolution, and the eve of reform and opening up.
117Reads—Score—Shelves
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The General's Journey North 将途北归
When a civil official’s pen becomes a weapon for killing, a martial artist’s blade becomes the last word in justice. But in the end, Shen Zhonglou chooses neither power nor riches. He chooses to return to the land where his brothers lie buried. He spends his life showing us what it means to say, “Generals die in a hundred battles; the brave return after ten years.” What he returns with isn’t glory, but duty, a promise, and the words, “In the next life, I’ll still follow you.”
37Reads—Score—Shelves