Fanqie catalogue
Books by 江南老怪头
- Matches
- 3
From the Fanqie books we index, matched on the author's name.
-
The Name That Rules the World in Brocade 锦衣天下名
After the Ming Dynasty was founded, Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the chancellor system in 1380 to prevent powerful ministers from usurping the throne. In 1382, he reorganized the Imperial Guard Command into the Embroidered Uniform Guard, filling the vacuum in oversight over those in power. The Embroidered Uniform Guard existed through nearly the entire history of the Ming Dynasty. When power was at stake, imperial authority reigned supreme, officials abused their positions for personal gain, and they
42Reads—Score—Shelves
-
A Perilous Tomb-Raiding Adventure 盗墓险记
A bronze compass led me to dig up my ancestors’ graves. On the day I dropped out of school, I burned all my archaeological notes. Yet the bronze compass my father left behind reassembled itself in the ashes, its needle spinning wildly as it pointed beneath the ancestral shrine. On my first tomb excavation, I unearthed a Western Zhou bronze coffin. Carved into the inside of its lid was an inscription: “Lin Jiuchuan, you who dig your own grave shall never be reborn.” And inside the coffin lay some
5Reads—Score—Shelves
-
The Art of Wasting Money in the Wealthy Elite 豪门挥霍之境地
A young master from a wealthy family has absolutely no worries about work or daily life. His family has been rich for four generations, and by his own time they are fabulously wealthy. Spoiled by his family since childhood, he lives carefree and at ease, gradually acquiring all kinds of bad habits as he grows older. His father, the chairman of the Li Family’s Honghao Group, has connections in both the underworld and the legitimate world. Fixing his son’s problems should be a breeze. But everyone
—Reads—Score—Shelves