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Books by Wei Min
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The Ming Dynasty's Final Seventeen Years 大明最后的十七年
This book recounts the turbulent and controversial final years of the Ming dynasty. Beginning with the fall of the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian, it follows the dramatic rise and fall of the great general Yuan Chonghuan, the treacherous minister Wen Tiren's domination of the court, peasant uprisings sweeping across the land, the dilemma of internal strife and external threats, and the patriotic deaths of renowned generals Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting. At last, in 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor h
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Who Says a Rich Young Lady Can't Work a Wok? 谁说千金小姐不能颠勺
A descendant of the Suzhou Imperial Silk Bureau. The eldest daughter of the Su Textile Mill. Before she turned twenty-one, those two titles were her whole life. After twenty-one, they meant nothing. Her father died, the mill was gone, and the family was ruined. The day the creditors showed up, she tucked a cleaver and a cookbook under her arm, put on a blue cotton outfit, and walked out through the sealed front gate. A distant relative tossed her two silver dollars. “Don’t starve to death on t
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