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- 1 Reborn in the Late Qing: I Forced the Great Powers to Sign Treaties 重生晚清，我逼列强签条约 [National Fate] x [System] x [Ultimate Emperor], no female lead, pure satisfaction from beginning to end. A modern man transmigrates into the late Qing Dynasty, turns the tide, thrashes the great powers, and restores the glory of Great Xia! 2kReads6.6Score123Shelves
- 2 Away From My Father Li Hongzhang, I’ll Become a Power Broker in Korea 远离家父李鸿章，去朝鲜当权臣 Anti-Qing + political intrigue + building a powerful nation Tired of stories that start in China? Follow our protagonist as he rises to power from Korea and becomes a minister opposing the Qing. Reborn as Li Hongzhang’s son, he gets called a traitor by the capital’s righteous scholars. My father may be a traitor, but men who only talk and never act have no right to criticize him. In Tianjin, Li Hongzhang gives a stern order: “Go and keep our tributary state of Korea under control!” Li Jingyuan: 476Reads—Score115Shelves
- 3 Overthrowing the Qing: From the Start, I'm Bruce Lee 反清，开局李小龙附体 While playing a game on his computer, Zhang Hong, a man from the twenty-first century, is accidentally electrocuted and sent to the Kangxi era. He discovers that his computer has become his golden finger. Since he doesn’t want to lose his head for refusing to shave his hair and wear a queue, he has no choice but to eliminate those who give him trouble. 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Reborn in 1888: Opening Up the Wilderness and Building Industry in the Mountains 重生1888，深山开荒造实业 Zhang Wei wakes up to find that he has become the only son of a wealthy landowner in the Guangxu era. The Self-Strengthening Movement is in full swing, and everything seems prosperous, but the empire is rotten to the core and on the verge of collapse. Starting out with a thousand mu of fertile farmland, he opens mines, builds factories, and establishes schools, helping the people of his hometown thrive. When the imperial court proves useless, he raises his own militia to protect the local commun 216Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Reborn in 1900: Plotting a Rebellion in Qing China 重生1900：穿清造反 Back in the late nineteenth century, people go hungry and have nothing warm to wear. If you transmigrate to the Qing dynasty, how can you not rebel? Foreign powers keep encroaching from abroad, while uprisings and unrest erupt at home. Japan steadily tests the empire’s strength, until it realizes that this mighty dragon is already on its last legs. Guns and cannons force open the nation’s gates. The influx of Western culture gives rise to all kinds of groups and people: conservatives, Self-Str 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 I Lead the Remnants of the Taiping Army in Search of Survival 我率太平军残部求生 Who can tell who will win or lose? Shan Tiandong transmigrates to the late Qing dynasty, where he unexpectedly finds a greatsword and a dying dynasty: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. What others see as defeated remnants on the brink of ruin, he sees as the perfect team to build a new enterprise. Ragtag soldiers? No, they’re the seeds of a future revolution. Prince De, Li Gan? No, he’s my angel investor. Redistribute the land, establish a base, open military academies, launch an industrial revo 64Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 7 Transmigrate to the Late Qing: The Tiger Warriors of Troubled Times 穿越晚清之乱世虎贲 Yuan Xiao transmigrates once again, this time to Changbai Mountain on the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, where a twist of fate makes him the mountain chief. So what if he’s a mountain chief? A hero’s origins don’t matter. With the land shattered, China fallen, and the great powers bullying the nation, I, a mere mountain chief, will rewrite this humiliating chapter of history! A sweeping heroic saga of outlaws in a chaotic age and peerless warriors! 2Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 8 Drop Me Into the Late Qing, and I'll Take Down One Enemy With Every Shot 让我降落晚清，一枪一个敌人 Li Zhen, a special forces sniper, returns to the late Qing dynasty, with the Second Opium War looming. With a rifle in hand, the world is mine! Armed with modern special forces tactics that never fail and marksmanship so superb he can take an enemy's head from a thousand miles away, he leaves Britain, America, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan weeping in despair. He puts down the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, quells internal unrest among the barbarians, launches an industrial revolution, and opens a 10Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 9 Reborn in 1836: The Silver War 重生1836之白银战争 (No System, no technology from the future, not a power fantasy. Diplomacy and political intrigue take precedence over war. Foreign enemies and domestic traitors are of normal intelligence. Read at your own discretion if this bothers you.) The century of humiliation begins in 1836. A young man from the 21st century transmigrates into the body of the Daoguang Emperor. Can he wash away a century of shame? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 The Late Qing Dynasty: An Era of Peace Begins with the Western Campaign 清末：太平盛世从西征开始 Hong Tianbao, a young archaeologist, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Hong Tianguifu, the Young King of the Heavenly Kingdom, after the Tianjing Incident in 1857. Just then, he encounters the Wing King, who has been marginalized and fallen under suspicion. One needs to stay alive, the other wants dignity and freedom, and the two hit it off. Together, they successfully hoodwink Hong Xiuquan and lead an army of 200,000 westward, occupying Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan to establish a new 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 I, Qingjue Sect, Dig Up My Own Ancestral Grave from the Start 我，清掘宗，开局先挖自家祖坟 [The Qing emperor’s fake grandson / real tyrant X Civilization Revival System, where ancestors are given a good old-fashioned physical send-off] I transmigrated into the unlucky fake cousin of the Xianfeng Emperor, just as China stood on the brink of ruin and the great powers closed in. Others save the nation through reform. Zai Yuan saves it by... digging up graves. System activation requirements: rob tombs, steal the Mandate of Heaven, destroy the Qing! And so, history’s most “filial” grandson 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Transmigration: Making Waves During the Qianlong Era 穿越：我在乾隆年间搞事情 Chen Yanzhou, a modern university student majoring in history, transmigrates into the body of an impoverished Han bannerman scholar in the Qing dynasty. His family is destitute, and he suffers humiliation at every turn. The Eight Banners run rampant, corrupt officials rule, the people starve in droves, and the court is rotten to the core. After witnessing the powerful treat human lives as worthless, he vows to overturn this bloodthirsty world. By chance, he gains a golden finger that lets him se —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Those Times I Transmigrated to the Qing Dynasty 穿越清朝的那些事 A modern man transmigrates to the Qing dynasty during the Yongzheng reign. Through the eyes of a modern thinker, you’ll experience the glory and stories of that era as he uses modern methods to climb, step by step, to the highest position. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 If Chongzhen Won’t Save the Realm, I’ll Take It! 崇祯不救，这天下我夺了！ In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, Hong Taiji takes a detour through Mongolia, breaches the Great Wall, and lays siege to Beijing. Xiao Feng transmigrates into the body of a night scout in the Xuanfu garrison, waking up on the battlefield. The incompetent Emperor Zhu Youjian is stubborn and narrow-minded, having loyal officials unjustly killed? The corrupt eunuch supervising the army withholds soldiers' pay and persecutes anyone he suspects? Xiao Feng draws his blade and points it to the h 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Strange Tales of the Five Dynasties 五代异闻録 [Transmigration] + [No System] + [Conquest] + [Taoist Arts] + [Powerful Minister] + [Warlord Rule] Raised in secret for over a decade, the naive young Taoist Qingzhu, armed with a mastery of Taoist arts, is thrust by his master into the chaotic Five Dynasties era. Amid a treacherous court and a blood-soaked frontier, he is forced to navigate one faction after another. He vanquishes evil spirits, subdues monsters, exterminates demons, fights on the battlefield, and conquers far and wide, earning 96Reads7.1Score101Shelves
- 16 The Great Qing's Porter 大清搬运工 Han Lin transmigrates back to the late Qing dynasty. Using spatial transport technology, he crushes the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and puts down the Nian Rebellion. He deals repeated devastating blows to the foreign powers' allied forces, tears up every unequal treaty, and is ennobled as a prince of a different surname for his achievements. He later forces the imperial family to abdicate. 7Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 17 A Food Delivery Guy Enlists in the Western Han Army 外卖小哥西汉从军记 Ancient history + transmigration + Han Dynasty + war + behind-the-scenes stories A nobody finds himself in the Han Empire, an age crowded with legendary warriors. With no strength to speak of, how will he survive, and how will he forge an unconventional path through military life? This book takes you back more than two thousand years to reveal the moving stories behind the epic war between the Han and the Xiongnu... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 A World of Blood: Starting at the End of the Yuan Dynasty 赤血天下：从元末开始 [Development and Farming] [Science Fiction] [The Internationale] From warhorses and clashing blades to ironclad ships and heavy guns, from ironclad ships and heavy guns to interstellar travel. Should one power dominate, or should a hundred flowers bloom? Where is human civilization headed? Will it destroy itself, or venture into the vast sea of stars? Light, or darkness. Destruction, or order. This is the ideal world in the author’s heart! May we encourage one another. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 A Lost Soul Beneath the Double-Headed Eagle 双头鹰下的歧途者 The river of fate swept two stars from the modern world into the final twilight of the Byzantine Empire. Chen Moting becomes Prince Alexios II, clad in a heavy purple robe and standing at the edge of the empire's collapse. His eyes take in the turmoil at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, yet his heart holds just one purpose: finding his missing younger sister, Yu Che. Far away, in a monastery cell of stone, the girl who was once Chen Yu Che has become Irene Komnene, burdened with “original sin. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Ancestors of Sui and Tang, Uniting North and South 南北一统之隋唐先祖 Why write about this period? The most gripping power struggle in Chinese history did not take place during the Three Kingdoms or the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It was at the end of the Northern Wei. What does this history contain? A mother who poisoned her own son, Empress Dowager Hu; an emperor who personally assassinated a powerful minister, Emperor Xiaozhuang; a warlord who slaughtered two thousand officials in a single night, Er Zhu Rong; a legendary battle in which thirty 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Greatest Landlord of the Late Qing Dynasty 清末之最强大地主 My future does not lie among the stars, but across vast expanses of land. There is no problem that cannot be solved by staking out a plot of land. If one plot is not enough, stake out another. “I stake out land, and I’m happy.” These are the musings of a transmigrator from an agrarian civilization about planets and the earth. 408Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Fearless Sea Soul 1914 无畏海魂1914 Amid the dusk of Jutland, a dreadnought battle line stretching for more than ten kilometers extends across the boundless sea. The horizon, set alight by flashes and thunderous blasts, has become a sight for the ages. A strange twist of fate sends the young Li Wei back through time. In 1896, he takes over the body of the Kaiser's sixth son and sails into a whole new world, composing a magnificent, sweeping saga. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Ballad of the Hegemon's Court 霸府长歌 Street-office clerk Mo Xiaofeng accidentally transmigrates a thousand years into the past, taking over the body of the second young master of a powerful house. He gets to experience firsthand a life that soars to the heights of success, only to have dark clouds gather overhead. A poem says: After riding through Luoyang, I sing of the east; each parting and reunion, each joy and sorrow, is different. By the Bronze Sparrow Terrace, I seek the Ice Well; before Li Yuchuan, I savor the Martial Ances 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 The Celebrity System of the Taiping Rebellion at the End of the Qing Dynasty 清末太平天国之名人系统 “Your Majesty, the weather's turned cold. Let me get you another layer!” the personal guard said, holding the imperial robe beside him. Ren Woxing shook his head slightly. “Sigh! You're putting me in an untenable position!” “Never mind, never mind.” “It is a little cold, so I'll graciously allow myself to wear it!” 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Peace Reigns Across the Land 天下皆太平 Long Baihan was an ordinary “last-place” boy in the Taiping Children’s Camp. At the age of ten, he suddenly began speaking a foreign tongue and was hailed as the “Father in Heaven’s spokesman,” receiving the title of “Holy Child” and becoming Hong Tianwang’s perfect accomplice in his charlatanry. Later, because he became close to Shi Yi Wang, Hong Tianwang grew suspicious of him. With no choice, Long Baihan went overseas, embarking on a life of adventure across the seas… 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 My New Great Powers 我的新列强 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 230Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 27 I Am Yakov 我是雅科夫 A gunshot rang out, and Yakov fell heroically beneath the fascists’ guns. From that day on, a red specter haunted Europe... Now Yakov has returned to that passionate era once more... 166Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 28 Late Qing: Deceiving the Emperor and Rebelling to Save China 晚清：欺君造反救华夏 Set in the second year of Xianfeng, during the Taiping Rebellion. The protagonist, born a bandit, impersonates a county magistrate and takes up the post, planning to make a quick buck and run. But life is a drama, and somehow he just keeps climbing the official ranks… I eat the Qing’s food and wear the Qing’s clothes, yet I’m also going to rebel against the Qing. Watch me drive out the Tartars and rebuild China! 268Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 29 The Qing Dynasty Is Gone, but China Has Become Earth's Hegemon 大清没了，但华夏成了地球霸主 A government clerk dies suddenly from overwork and wakes up as an emperor. The System in his head has an interface that looks exactly like the government intranet OA portal. [Pending task: Reform the Customs Service] Used to write reports → Now writes imperial edicts Used to balance competing interests → Now collects vassal states Used to get chewed out by the boss → Now gets surrounded by British and French fleets Not much difference. 94Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Another World: Naval Storm 异世：海军风暴 What? You’re the strongest power in the Far East, and your Combined Fleet rules the seas? You’re exactly who I’m here to fight! I’ll bombard Kyoto and scare the Emperor half to death! What? You’re the world’s reigning superpower, and the Royal Navy commands the oceans? You’re exactly who I’m here to fight! The new world will be divided, starting with Leo! Who’s Leo, you ask? He’s the best-looking guy at Carey Academy (according to himself), a strategic genius of the Drak Empire (by popular opi 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Great Qing: I Will Never Be a Puppet Emperor Again! 大清：朕不会再做傀儡皇帝！ Top-tier political intrigue + historical comeback + no golden finger + no System + not a feel-good power fantasy Japanese pirates invade our land. We will slaughter them all! The great powers humiliate us. We will punish them, no matter how far away they are! Modernization and reform: carry them out without fail! Rule from behind the curtain? Sorry, that violates ancestral law! See how the most timid and humiliated emperor in modern history turns his fortunes around in a crumbling, corrupt feu 5Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 32 The Romantic Little Tyrant of Troubled Times 乱世多情小霸王 No System! This is a genuine transmigration story: no bragging, no mindless wish fulfillment, just a realistic tale of transmigration, taking one solid step at a time! There is danger, love and hate, and plenty of bluffing. Its sole guiding principle is passion, patriotism, and romance. A historical fantasy novel. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Red Star Shines on the East 红星照耀东方 Li Qinfeng is 10, Wang Qinian is 42, Meng Jianguo is 38, and Chen Yonghua is 28. After exploring a sinkhole, they find an artifact that lets them transmigrate. Together with an unreliable System, they embark on a sweeping journey of rebirth and battle, in an era when fireworks filled the skies. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Can't Modernize the Nation? The System Helps Me Turn Over a New Leaf! 洋务带不动？系统助我换新篇！ Don’t rebel in the Qing dynasty, and don’t put chrysanthemums on a power drill. The protagonist, Qi Xiaoqiang, transmigrates to the late Qing dynasty in 1883. Using the System to purchase technology, equipment, and personnel, he establishes an armed regime, overthrows the Qing dynasty, founds an empire, and conquers the world. 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Dawn in Xichuan, 1909 西川欲晓1909 With a gun in hand, follow me. Don’t say we have nothing at all. Our fate is in our own hands. A modern township civil servant arrives in the Xichuan region for reasons unknown. Faced with local thugs and bullies running rampant, government officials squeezing the people, imperialist powers infiltrating and invading, and a population struggling to survive, Xia Ping draws on the knowledge he gained in his previous life and copies the playbook of the forebears who came before him. He leads the mas 1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 36 Warring States: Rebellion Begins with the First Industrial Revolution 战国：造反从第一次工业革命开始 Yun Xiao is a science-minded man with a PhD in chemistry. By chance, he ends up in a parallel world resembling ancient times. He takes the place of an honest, old-fashioned young prince, and to make matters worse, he's granted a barren territory. Within the palace, several imperial brothers watch him like hawks. Beyond its borders, the barbarians are poised to strike. Scheming Yun Xiao decides to build some trains, planes, ships, rockets, and atomic bombs in this world! 146Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 37 Transmigrating to the Late Qing: From Bandit to King of the Northeast 穿越清末从土匪到东北王 [Industry]+ [Technology]+ [Military]+ [Political Intrigue] The protagonist, Zhang Jing’an, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a minor Boxer Rebellion leader in Northeast China in 1900. While being hunted down by Qing troops, he unexpectedly awakens the Hearts of Iron System. After driving off the Qing troops, the group has nowhere to go and is forced to become bandits. Their very first heist is the kidnapping of a county magistrate, but the magistrate accidentally drowns while trying to 103Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 The Northern Expedition Begins in Guangxi 从广西开始的北伐战争 Zhang Chengyu transmigrated to the late Qing dynasty. Through a twist of fate, he saved Hong Xiuquan, and so joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising and overthrew the Qing dynasty. Alternate history transmigration, with a golden finger. 56Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 39 The Age of Sea Power 海权时代 Coming toward you is this world's: Strongest maritime power! True empire on which the sun never sets! Blue Star's world police! The beacon of justice for the world! An essential cornerstone of world peace! A vital pillar of stability! Being a dog for Longhan is the greatest honor, woof! 40Reads7.6Score—Shelves
- 40 Back to the Late Qing as a Taoist Priest 回到晚清当道士 A miserable twenty-first-century criminal detective gets brained with a brick by tomb raiders and transmigrates to the Qing dynasty. Then Uncle Li, a sleazy, disheveled fake Taoist, tricks him into becoming his disciple. With no choice but to follow his master into battle against ghosts and corpse fiends, he ends up battered from head to toe, while the woman he loves vanishes without a trace. And so the hapless detective becomes a useless Taoist, following his unreliable master on a demon-slayin 111Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 A Dream of the Republican Era: I Became a Warlord 梦回民国，我成了军阀 A first-year history student gives up on life, eats way too much corn, and accidentally transmigrates. He wakes up in the Beiyang Government era of the Republic of China. As the leader of a band of outlaws, watch me defy fate and rewrite my destiny. 81Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Rise of the Late Qing: The Mightiest Imperialist Power 清末崛起之最强列强 When the Maxim gun appears, the great powers are afraid. When the battleship appears, they’re afraid again! When the planes arrive, they’re even more afraid! Then, at the moment the atomic bomb explodes, the whole world falls silent. Eagle Nation: “How is this possible? How can they have weapons this powerful?” The Sun Never Sets Empire: “Could they have gotten their technology from aliens?” The Dwarf Nation: “Father, I’ll use every man in my country to conquer new territory for you.” 2.2kReads6.1Score174Shelves
- 43 Just Kidding, I'm a Revolutionary Army Member Too 骗你的，其实朕也是革命军 (No female lead) (Two-way transmigration) (Cheat abilities support the plot) Liu Changqin: “So you're saying you really are Chongzhen, but you transmigrated to the future and lived there for 20 years, even got into a 985 university, and now you've come back?” Chongzhen: “You got it, bro.” Liu Changqin: “Then what do you think about hereditary rule?” Chongzhen: “Long live the people! That vile feudalism only stands in the way of social progress.” Liu Changqin: “Wait, does that make sense?” Chongz 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 From the Start, I Turned the Tide and Saved the Nation 开局我力挽山河 He has no System and no golden finger. Step by step, he makes his way from a leaky old house into the troubled gap between eras. From the start, he joins the army and leads troops into battle, changing a broken dynasty, rescuing the nation’s fortunes, and trying to open a door to a different future. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Green Camp Rises: Yuan Xiucheng’s Global War Chronicles 绿营崛起：袁秀成的全球战记 [War-themed power fantasy, System + mass recruitment + 19th century] In the empire’s final years, internal strife, natural disasters, and foreign enemies converge. Yuan Xiucheng, a teenager born into the Green Standard Army, unexpectedly awakens a War System. Using it to recruit elite soldiers and purchase advanced weapons, he quickly builds a powerful, loyal force. Amid the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, revolts by ethnic minorities in the northwest, and upheaval caused by Nian rebel forces 25Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 46 Transmigrating to the Late Qing Dynasty to Build an Industrial Cthulhu 穿越晚清建立工业克鲁苏 [Transmigrating between past and present + decisive and ruthless + one heroine + no womanizing + technological development + farming] By a stroke of luck, the miserable Li Haiyang gained the ability to travel between the modern era and the Qing Dynasty. Seizing the opportunity, he began a time-traveling trade in modern goods, from everyday necessities like food, clothing, and shelter all the way up to aircraft and warships. He would take anything and everything! Empress Dowager Cixi? The Eight-N 3Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 47 Late Qing: The Iron-Blooded New Army 清末：铁血新军 A modern man is reborn as the son of a late Qing Dynasty Huai Army family. His family falls into decline, and he narrowly escapes death amid the smoke and fire of the First Sino-Japanese War. Having shed blood on the battlefield and seen through the rotten Qing court’s hopelessness, he travels to Japan to study in secret and quietly build his strength. After returning home, he joins the effort to train a modern army. With thousands of elite soldiers at his command, he keeps his edge concealed 820Reads—Score108Shelves
- 48 1919: Steel Ambitions 1919钢铁雄心 In 1919, Chen Xi, a native of this world, knows the history of the coming decades. How will he lead this great nation back to the pinnacle of its glory? “Only sacrifice and revolution can lead us back to greatness.” 363Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 49 I Betrayed Cixi and Became the Big Shot of the Beiyang Army 背刺慈禧，我成了北洋扛把子 [No System + Late Qing Dynasty + Plot + Political Intrigue + Epic-Length] Transmigrated into the body of a low-ranking military officer in the late Qing, Pei Liang stares at the queue at the back of his head and falls into deep thought. His superior is the unpredictable Empress Dowager Cixi. His colleagues are princes and powerful officials with their own schemes. And the history assignment is the looming national catastrophe of 1900. 261Reads5.2Score103Shelves
- 50 Transmigrating to the Qing Dynasty: Isolationism? Then Let's Revolt 穿越大清：闭关锁国？那还不造反 A physics student transmigrates to the Qing Dynasty and is transformed into the first AI through human experimentation. As foreign powers force the country to open its doors and the Qing government fails to act, how far can he go? Is he merely a witness to history, or a participant? Where does the power of redemption lie? And what secrets are hidden in the past? Chen Feng, targeted by the rulers as soon as he transmigrates, can he break the deadlock? 451Reads—Score—Shelves
