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My Three Years as a Madman in the System 我在体制内当疯子的三年
He lifted his thermos, now completely cold, and took a sip. The tea had steeped too long, bitter enough to numb his tongue. But he didn’t move. He just sat there, staring at the screen without taking anything in. On it was the report he had started writing that morning but never finished. There were seven people in the office. The fans of six computers whirred, mixed with the occasional clatter of keyboards. At the workstation across from him, Xiao Zhou wore headphones and nodded his head now an
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Half the Realm 山河半壁
The chaos of the Yongjia era had barely subsided, and the southward flight of the gentry still felt as if it had happened only yesterday. The wound of the north-south division ran deep, exposing bone. Northern regimes rose and fell in quick succession, their iron hooves crushing rites, music, and the well-field system. In the south, the Jin court clung to a corner of the realm, while powerful clans monopolized the nine-rank system, forging a rigid wall of class around the ladder of power. Talent
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A State-Owned Enterprise Section Chief Stirs Up Trouble in the Forbidden Palace of the Late Qing 国企科长在清末冷宫搞事情
In the third year of Xuantong, Beijing was like a giant corpse dressed in a magnificent shroud. It still bore the stately outline of a celestial empire, but time had hollowed it out from within, leaving behind a smell mingled with sandalwood, opium, and rotting timber. Here, time was no river flowing forward, but a mire slowly fermenting and endlessly circling back on itself. The sun rose and the moon set; bells and drums marked the hours. Everything followed strict rules, yet those rules seemed
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