Novels like The Fifties: A Great Man's Life Begins as a Baby
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- 1 Sixies: Flowers in the Sun 六零之向阳花开 The genres are: Zhou Xiangyang never expected that one act of bravery during her senior-year internship would restart her life in 1960. She became a baby with the same name in the family compound of a machinery factory. Her family was simple but loving: an engineer father, a mother who worked at the supply and marketing cooperative, and two siblings, each with a personality of their own. Her English degree from her previous life was still with her, along with a temperamental “mystery box” sign- 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Born in the 1950s, Switched at Birth 五零，出生被调换 [Transmigration + 1950s + transmigrated as a baby + spatial storage + self-interested heroine + military marriage] Gu Yihan is caught up in a transmigration to the 1950s because of a mutated hamster. The moment she opens her eyes, she discovers that her mother, who favors boys over girls, has switched her with someone else's son. Her adoptive mother dislikes her, and her adoptive father favors boys over girls. From childhood, Gu Yihan works hard to win her grandmother's favor and earn the chance 11.7kReads7.8Score788Shelves
- 3 Transmigrated to 1970, Suddenly a Mom of Nine 穿越1970，喜当9个孩子的妈 Main characters: Zhao Wenting and Li Sixi [Period Setting + Information System + Transmigrate + Everyday Family Life] Zhao Wenting has transmigrated. There’s one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. The good news: she has a golden finger, an Information System. The bad news: she has nine kids from the start, more than the Calabash Brothers. Looking at the three children who are about to be sent to the countryside, Zhao Wenting rolls up her sleeves and starts toughening them up. As a res 18.1kReads8.3Score1.3kShelves
- 4 The 1980s: My Sister Is a Policewoman Who Puts Every Troublemaker in Their Place 八零之我姐是警花，专治各种不服 [Period crime investigation + family and neighborhood life + a spirited heroine + Beijing hutongs and courtyard homes + a slight golden finger] Lin Tiantian was a gymnast in her previous life. Reborn into the Lin family, she had extraordinary strength. To keep her from causing damage with it, her father taught her the family's martial arts from childhood. Though she was beautiful in this life, she chose to make policing her lifelong career. Everyone in the neighborhood knew that a female officer 1.2kReads6.8Score170Shelves
- 5 The Fragrance of Herbs Warms the Green Hills in the Fifties 五零之青山药香暖 Ji Lan, a captain in the apocalypse, is reborn as Lin Qinghe, the youngest daughter of the Lin family in a small mountain village in the 1950s. Not getting enough to eat? No problem. Her wood-element ability came with her. It may be weak, but it still comes in handy. Not strong enough? That’s not an issue either. She can shatter a millstone with one punch, and carrying water or chopping wood is a piece of cake. Most importantly, she has inherited her family’s medical knowledge, so her dream of b 4.3kReads8.4Score454Shelves
- 6 The 1960s: After Getting into Technical College, I Secure a Cadre Position 六零：考上中专后，我稳坐干部岗 [1960s + everyday life + extremely, extremely slow-paced + family squabbles + no rural assignment + vocational school entrance exams + few awful relatives] [This is a female-oriented novel! The heroine is an ordinary person, not a powerhouse heroine. Please don’t read if that bothers you.] Heartbroken and still looking for an internship? To escape reality, senior college student Zhou Yuan casually signed a contract for the full-immersion game Awakening. When she opened her eyes, she had become Z 17.2kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 7 The Sixties: Traveling the World with My Pocket Dimension 六十年代之带着空间畅游天下 Li Beibei grew up surrounded by stories, then unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a lucky girl in the 1950s. Touched by her family’s favoritism and kindness, she gladly accepts their love and decides to repay them with her own abilities. As she plans her future, Li Beibei chooses two careers that will let her travel at public expense, hoping to make up for the regrets of her past life: journalist and diplomat! And so begins her extraordinary journey in this world. By the seaside: “Qing f 9.3kReads9.3Score749Shelves
- 8 The Only Daughter of the 1970s 七零年代独生女 [No transmigration into a book, no System, no pocket dimension.] [Period setting + farming + serving the motherland + technical expertise] A researcher who loves and hates fiercely versus a reborn diplomat Yu Yue fell asleep in the bath and woke up in the 1970s, as the only child in her family. First, there was her timid mother, who was willing to work herself to the bone for her family. Then there was her father, spoiled by his family and utterly self-centered. Timid Mom: “Let’s see anyone try 17.8kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
