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Books by 菠萝地仙
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Qianlong Returns 乾隆再临
He died. At eighty-nine, after sixty years on the throne, he was the Perfect Old Man, an emperor for the ages. Then he woke up. Nineteen years old, a failed candidate who had not even passed the lowest imperial exam, in remote Pengshui County, Sichuan. His parents were destitute and worried sick. What kind of joke was this? It was fine. The empire was still the same empire; only the person on the throne had changed. He had forgotten how to wage war? He had conquered the Dzungars. He had forgo
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Xianfeng: Prisoner on the Dragon Throne 咸丰：龙椅上的囚徒
The dragon throne is the loneliest instrument of torture in the realm. He took his seat at nineteen and died coughing blood at thirty-one. For twelve years, he gave his life to sing a requiem for a great empire that no one could hear. He treated being emperor as a punishment. At nineteen, Aisin Gioro Yizhu took his seat on the dragon throne in the Forbidden City. He thought he held supreme power, unaware that he had become the foremost prisoner in the most splendid cage in the realm. Beneath
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Biographies of the Legalists 法家列传
An intellectual epic about reshaping Huaxia through institutions What is Legalism? It is not harsh laws and severe punishments, nor political scheming. At its heart, it is about establishing a predictable order through clear rules. From Guan Zhong laying the foundations for administrative grid systems with "dividing the state into three parts and its outskirts into five," to Shang Yang breaking hereditary privilege with a system of ranks based on military merit; from Han Fei bringing together th
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