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Books by 老朴客
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The Warlord of Late Qing: Shu Marshal 清末枭雄：蜀帅
In 1905, he was the finest student at a Sichuan military academy, yet also the most notorious playboy in Chengdu’s pleasure quarter. He had meant to drink and make merry until the end of his days, but then came devastating news from home: his father had been killed by bandits. The flames of vengeance for his family burned away his reckless ways. He abandoned his prospects in the New Army and returned home, beginning his path to warlord rule by organizing a local militia.
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The Brotherhood Constable 袍哥警士
Chengdu, 1903. Zhou Shanpei establishes the General Police Bureau, and Shiziyuan is designated a “special zone,” where residents must pay a monthly prostitution tax. This is when Zhang Wu puts on his police uniform. He is the son of the third-in-command of the Li Banner and the younger brother of the Black Banner’s chief steward. As a boy, he listened to sworn brothers spinning yarns in teahouses on Dongshuncheng Street and watched girls solicit customers in Shiziyuan’s alleyways. Now he returns
354Reads6.6Score102Shelves