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Old Fox Heshen: the Double Life of Greed and Wisdom
Taking the growth of Heshen's "fox nature" as the core - from a down-and-out young man to a powerful man, from a shrewd and capable minister to a greedy giant beetle, it reveals the double alienation of power and human nature.
5.8kReads7.6Score630Shelves
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Guo Jia's Rebirth: Cao Cao's Destiny-Changing Situation
In the twelfth year of Jian'an, Guo Jia died of illness in Liucheng at the age of thirty-eight. Before he died, he looked at the vast sky in the north, full of unwillingness in his heart - he knew very well what detours Cao Cao's camp would take next: the fire of Chibi, the embarrassment on Huarong Road, the defeat of Hanzhong, Guan Yu's missed opportunity to move the capital during the Northern Expedition... The seeds of all tragedies were planted long before Cao Cao was satisfied. What if I co
79Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Honest Official: Peng Yulin's One Hundred Thousand Plum Blossoms and Iron Blood
This book takes Peng Yulin, one of the "Four Famous Officials of Zhongxing" in the late Qing Dynasty, as the backbone of his personality with his "three don'ts" (no money, no official, no life) and his painting of 100,000 plum blossoms for his first love "Mei Gu" who died young. His emotions persist as the foundation of his soul, spanning the four dynasties of Dao, Xian, Tong and Guang, panoramically showing his legendary life from an unappreciated county school student to the commander-in-chief
15Reads—Score—Shelves
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Qin Shihuang: the Lone Star Shines on the Qin Dynasty
"Qin Shihuang: The Lone Star Shines on the Qin Dynasty" is an authoritative historical work that deeply analyzes Qin Shihuang, the one emperor through the ages. This book uses a grand historical perspective to panoramically reproduce the magnificent journey of Qin Shihuang from being a prostitute of Zhao State to unifying the world and establishing the Qin Empire. At the same time, it deeply reveals the complex historical truth of his merits and demerits. The book uses Qin Shihuang's life as a c
3Reads—Score—Shelves
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Li Hongzhang: Patch Life in the Qing Dynasty
This book uses "patch life" as the core metaphor, and through Li Hongzhang's life trajectory of more than seventy years, shows the entire process of the late Qing empire from internal and external troubles to its final collapse. The whole book takes Li Hongzhang's perspective as the main line, and intersperses it with the observation perspective of the fictional character Lin Yifeng (a young journalist who returned from studying abroad), forming a dual narrative of "the authorities are obsessed"
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