Novels like A Portrait of Hong Kong Life
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Portrait of Hong Kong Life, best match first.
- 1 Showbiz: Back to 2006 华娱之重回2006 After years of making his way through the entertainment industry, this seasoned veteran is thrown back sixteen years by a twist of fate. Can he forge a different life for himself? 0Votes8.2kRecs31.9kFans
- 2 To Get More Updates, I Infiltrated the Author’s Group 为了催更，我混进了作者群 Tian Yunxiao: “You damn author, update already! Four thousand words a day? Who’s that supposed to be enough for? You lousy author, get writing!” The damn author: “Do you even know what the human body can take? Four thousand words is the limit! Write even one more and I’m not human!” “The Online Fiction Update-Chasing to Godhood System has been bound.” Many years later… Reader: “You damn author, update already! Four thousand words a day? Who’s that supposed to be enough for? You lousy aut 0Votes10.5kRecs52.4kFans
- 3 I Turned Out to Be a Top-Tier Star! 我竟然是顶流！ Middle-aged, he suddenly goes missing. After twenty years of hard work, actor Zhou Dingran finally achieves fame and is crowned Best Actor. But one slip of fate turns him into a handsome, beloved young student in Beidian’s acting department… … A dual career as a singer and actor… The author has completed several other entertainment-industry novels, including Reborn as a Superstar and Reborn: The Superstar. 1Votes13.1kRecs65.9kFans
- 4 Hao of Chinese Showbiz 华娱之昊 I honestly have no idea how to write this blurb. I've racked my brains and think four words sum it up: Chinese showbiz, 2001, director, female lead! “Showbiz's Whip” and “Showbiz's First-Generation Top-Tier Star” are already complete and ready to binge! 0Votes61.2kRecs44.5kFans
- 5 The Tearjerker Director 催泪系导演 Moviegoer: Every time I watch a Li Yi movie, I cry! Film critic: Li Yi’s movies always strike a chord deep inside you! Director: Li Yi is one of a kind. He never makes big-budget films, yet he always manages to work miracles! Actor: Director Li’s films always make you laugh until you cry! He’s a director unlike any other, and he never chases big-budget productions! Yet his films always manage to move you when you least expect it! This book is meant to revisit the classics that once moved you! Hi 0Votes30.1kRecs176kFans
- 6 Reborn in 1988: Getting Rich After Rejecting My Ex-Wife 重生88：从拒绝前妻开始暴富 An accident sent Lin Shuping back to 1988. In the early summer of that year, he looked at the girl who couldn’t care less about him and smiled... Then he put his hands in his pockets, turned around, and walked away. In the turbulent sea of business and the great tide of the times, danger and opportunity coexist in this life. But once I catch the wave, getting rich is my only option. 134Votes36.5kRecs189.4kFans
- 7 Gourmet Cuisine Begins with the Green-Skinned Train Chef 美食从绿皮火车厨神开始 Food along the way, stories along the way, scenery along the way. After transmigrating to a parallel world, Zhou Zhou becomes the chef aboard a green passenger train. This world has scrambled eggs, but no stir-fried egg ribbons. It has iron-pot stewed goose, but no chicken stewed in a clay pot. It has fish-fragrant shredded pork, but no kung pao chicken. It has jianbing, but no Goubuli buns. It has roujiamo, but no oil-splashed noodles. It has roast duck, roast chicken, roast goose, and all kind 0Votes27.2kRecs53.3kFans
- 8 Showbiz: I Only Like Making Movies 文娱，我只喜欢拍电影 In 2008, Chinese entertainment cinema emerged from its pioneering era and entered a period of wild growth and flourishing diversity! That year, countless people experienced both joy and sorrow! That year, Chinese entertainment cinema gained a Fang Ziheng! Transmigrated and reborn, he sets sail! From low-budget comedies to big-budget suspense, historical, and sci-fi films, Fang Ziheng goes step by step from a newcomer to a world-renowned director with box-office hits, forging his own path in the 0Votes44.3kRecs306.1kFans
- 9 Reborn in 2009: Becoming a Heartthrob 重生09做男神 After returning to his high school days, Zhou Muyan accidentally breaks the heart of the girl he has always loved. At first, he only hopes it was a mistake. But then she follows him to college. With his first love before him and the childhood friend who has always waited for him behind him, Zhou Muyan feels utterly helpless. 1Votes57.3kRecs302.8kFans
- 10 Chinese Showbiz: Born to Be the Protagonist 华娱之天生主角 Reporter: “Zhang Nanyi, ever since you entered show business, you’ve always played the lead. You’ve never taken a supporting role, or even made a cameo.” Zhang Nanyi: “That’s right. What about it?” Reporter: “A veteran actor criticized you for acting like a diva and refusing to take anything but lead roles. Is that why you turned down The King of Kung Fu?” Zhang Nanyi: “Don’t make things up. I didn’t turn it down. My girlfriend’s been sick and in the hospital lately, so I have to do my duty as a 0Votes24.5kRecs112.8kFans
- 11 A Rising Star in Entertainment 文娱新贵 That year, a number of rising young actresses had just started to make names for themselves and set out on their own brilliant paths; That year, mainland China's box office surpassed 6.2 billion, with the world's fastest growth rate; That year, the mobile internet developed rapidly, ushering in the wireless era of online fiction; That year, Zhou Xia, from ten years in the future, transmigrated into a first-year acting student at the Beijing Film Academy; "Life is just a journey. I pass through y 0Votes53.7kRecs101.8kFans
- 12 Table Tennis King 乒乓天王 Kong Zhendong, a man who reached the top by choosing between becoming the Great Demon King and training the Great Demon King... One day, Kong Zhendong will sit in the stands with a cute little kid in his arms, watching a game. He’ll point down at the field and say, “Listen up, kid. Daddy made every one of those guys cry~~” Add to favorites +100, and I’ll post another chapter. 0Votes30.4kRecs15.2kFans
- 13 Food Service Mogul 餐饮大佬 After one drunken binge, Liu Xiahui was reborn in the year 2000. With his golden finger, Liu Xiahui secretly used his tuition money to start a business without telling his parents. Starting with a tiny stall selling sliced poached chicken, he eventually grew into a leading figure in the food and beverage industry. (A separate post after Chapter 84 explains the prices in the book. If you think something seems off, don't rush to judgment. Read that post first.) 0Votes88kRecs82.2kFans
- 14 The Golden Age of Chinese Entertainment 华娱大时代 Back in 2004, when Chinese-language cinema was just beginning to take off, Tang An's directing career started anew! From China to the world, this was the era when Chinese-language cinema would rise to glory, and it was Tang An's own grand age! 0Votes258.2kRecs265.5kFans
- 15 The Card Game Superstar 卡牌大明星 Fatty Lin had a dream: he successfully lost weight, became a big star, and reached the pinnacle of life. Then he woke up. The fat was still there, and he had to start all over again with losing weight! The author has completed The Peerless Superstar and Entertainment’s Golden Touch. You can count on the quality! 0Votes38.3kRecs49.1kFans
- 16 Master of Performance 表演大师 It’s more or less a story like this: An unknown fourth-year acting student at a film academy has a strange dream. When he wakes up, he discovers his mind is full of movies and TV shows from the future. And so a master of acting begins his rise... 0Votes40.8kRecs27.2kFans
- 17 Reborn in 1990: A Twist of Fate 逆转重生1990 Turn your life around and be reborn in 1990. Make your mark in the south and dominate Hong Kong. Song Zhichao goes from a super-rich tycoon in his previous life to a penniless worker at a toy factory in the south. Then his comeback begins. Hero or ruthless kingpin? Come revisit that magnificent, golden age. 0Votes142.3kRecs192.6kFans
- 18 Reborn in a Dazzling Hong Kong 重生迷醉香江 This is the best of times, the most beautiful of times, an era of the most handsome and beautiful stars, the most glorious age of Hong Kong cinema, an era that began in 1980. 0Votes39.7kRecs69kFans
- 19 The Supreme Physician 上医至明 The superior physician treats illness before it appears, the ordinary physician treats illness in its early stages, and the inferior physician treats illness after it has already developed! Yu Zhiming, with a serious expression: You don't have to believe me, but I have to tell you that you will develop cancer within the next year… P.S. Readers waiting for updates can read the author's excellent completed older works, The Miracle-Working Heart Doctor and The Hospital Doctor with Cheats! 1Votes146.2kRecs216.5kFans
- 20 America: From Oil to Mold 美利坚从石油滋生霉菌开始 The US military forms organ-harvesting units in the Middle East. After certain military operations, they enter the battlefield and use their expertise to select targets and harvest high-grade parts. After Tang Ning is brutally harvested, his soul crosses over into the body of an American soldier. He successfully infiltrates the US military and vows to stir up a storm within its ranks. America, Special Agent Smith, the kill line, the Middle East, oil, cannon fodder, enlisting on credit, causing t 453Votes68.2kRecs103.1kFans
- 21 The Road to Arts and Athletics 文体之路 0Votes172kRecs85.2kFans
- 22 Turbulent 1979! 激荡1979！ This literary giant is no ordinary man! He wears luxury watches, drives expensive cars, lives in a mansion, and is close to several actresses. He shaped not only one generation's childhood, but the childhoods of several generations, and their childhood idols, too. Want to know why he's so bold? Wei Ming: “I was already earning foreign currency back in 1980. The culture I exported on my own was worth about as much as the entire contemporary literary scene. I've spent my whole life writing novels. 358Votes382.2kRecs576.1kFans
- 23 Reborn as a Rich Man 重生豪宅男 Li Huai was abruptly sent back to his high school days in 2002. With no great ambitions, he figured he was still a good-for-nothing, so he decided to remain a shut-in, only this time he’d take it up a notch and become a mansion-owning shut-in. To achieve that goal, he began slowly changing the course of his life… I’m no good at writing introductions, but the story… This is a serious novel! 0Votes69.9kRecs58.5kFans
- 24 I'm a Lawyer in North America 我在北美当律师 After taking revenge for his great grudge, Gu Zheng unexpectedly finds himself reborn in a parallel world and given a new life. A legal aid lawyer who graduated from a second-tier law school is now a Harvard golden boy, reduced to working at a second-tier firm in Los Angeles. The only problem is that this glittering diploma didn't come with the memories to match. “Gu, I know you don't want to be someone else's assistant. No problem: you can go to court on your very first day!” “I...” “Here are f 0Votes34.1kRecs68Fans
- 25 Traversing TV Dramas 穿梭在电视剧 Starting with My Own Swordsman. Young Justice Bao, Young Zhang Sanfeng, The Number One Under Heaven, Wind and Cloud, Snowflake Goddess Dragon, Lotus Lantern, Handsome Monkey King Conquers the World, Journey to the West: The Sequel... Jiang Yi transmigrates through one television world after another, step by step reaching the summit and attaining eternity. 0Votes55.4kRecs115kFans
- 26 Entertainment in a Golden Age 盛世娱乐 It was the golden age of mass entertainment: variety shows were at their peak, idol dramas were just getting started, and the music scene was enjoying its final moment of glory. It was a true heyday for entertainment. As a classmate of Big S and Little S, how will Du Hanwen usher in his own era? Taiwan’s Seven Fairies, Black and White Match, F4, I Guess, Super Sunday, the Four Little Heavenly Queens. They all shone brightly in this golden age. Join Du Hanwen and witness an era of entertainment t 0Votes65.7kRecs30.6kFans
- 27 A Dream in Chinese Entertainment 华娱之梦 A beautiful spring day is no match for a dream, where the grass smells sweet. In the early spring of the new millennium, Lin Mu settled in a village outside the capital. Then everything began to feel like a dream. A fantastical dream of Chinese entertainment! P.S. My 2.4-million-word novel about the same genre, Chinese Entertainment, is complete. Come on in and enjoy. Satisfaction guaranteed. 0Votes142.1kRecs105.7kFans
- 28 When It Comes to Matchmaking, I Don't Bow to Anyone 做媒这一块，我谁都不服 “Once the newlyweds enter the room, the matchmaker gets tossed over the wall.” “Believe in ghosts if you like, but never trust a matchmaker's mouth.” “Don't act as a go-between, a guarantor, or a matchmaker, and your descendants will be blessed for three generations!” These three sayings show just how awkward the matchmaker's standing is in the eyes of the public. Jiang Feng has just graduated from college when he suddenly gains the uncanny ability to see how compatible two people are for marria 0Votes95.3kRecs347.6kFans
- 29 Three Kingdoms: The Great Army Expansion 三国之大爆兵 If I had to transmigrate, why did I have to become Shi Hui, the third son of Shi Xie? Jiaozhou is a godforsaken place, with neither people nor talent to speak of... Oh, I can raise troops at will? There’s no population cap? I can spawn an endless number of commoners?! The inn has a Hall of Heroes and a Hall for Recruiting Talent? They can summon historical scholars and generals from every era? System, can we talk? Could you summon the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai?! Before long, Jiangnan had a popul 0Votes46.5kRecs62.1kFans
- 30 The Restaurant Tycoon 餐饮巨头 The journey of transmigrating and being reborn continues. Li Guohao, an ordinary restaurant owner, woke up one day to find his soul in 1970s Hong Kong. Watch as he grows a small cha chaan teng into a global restaurant empire. (This is not simply a food novel.) P.S. 0Votes87.2kRecs96.2kFans
- 31 You Don't Know How Much Fun Being a Director Is 导演的快乐你不懂 ★ Book status: Complete! Conquest 108 ★ Born in 1985, admitted to the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy in 2003, went on exchange to the University of Southern California in 2005, and directed his first Hollywood movie in 2006. He became famous overnight! But at the height of his success, Wang Quan announced he was returning to China to pursue his career. The domestic entertainment industry was shaken, and the international scene was stunn 2Votes192.6kRecs495.5kFans
- 32 Reborn: Rising in Hong Kong 重生：崛起香江 Rickshaws, floral water, the Four Great Detectives, and pleasure boats on the Kowloon River! Cheongsam-clad beauties swaying to and fro, and the dreamlike Hong Kong! Reborn in Hong Kong... With a hand full of unbeatable cards, Shi Zhijian makes opportunity bloom everywhere! 0Votes121.8kRecs293.2kFans
- 33 The Earthy Superstar 土味巨星 Country bumpkin Li Tiezhu accompanies his good friend Qin Tao to audition for a talent show. Li Tiezhu: “If you become a star, you can open a pig farm ten times bigger than your dad’s. I’ll do the construction work for you.” Qin Tao: “Damn it! I’ll be famous by then. Why the hell would I open a pig farm?” “If you’re not raising pigs, what will you raise?” “How do you not get it? Once I’m a big star, I won’t raise pigs any 0Votes129.4kRecs224kFans
- 34 The Ming Dynasty's Hegemony Overseas 大明之雄霸海外 Turn the Age of Western Exploration on its head! Let the East dominate the Age of Exploration! This is our era! Will Western powers smash open the East’s gates with their mighty ships and guns? No! The Eastern fleet, covering the sea from horizon to horizon, will become the West’s nightmare! Sailing-era ships of the line! Broadside duels between battle lines stretching for kilometers! Wealth, beautiful women, and land, all coming in an endless tide! Once, the despair of Admiral Guan at the Humen 0Votes109.2kRecs72.6kFans
- 35 Reborn: The Strongest Tycoon 重生之最强大亨 In 1978, Li Ka-shing was not yet the richest Chinese man. In 1978, Hollywood still had its eight major studios. In 1978, Apple had yet to take a bite from the apple. It was the best of times: technology was poised to take off, and gold was everywhere. It was the worst of times: profit came first, and capital ruled all. It was an age of chaos, when dragons and snakes danced and warlords rose everywhere. The story begins in a small fishing village in Hong Kong in 1978... Born on a rainy day, the f 2Votes526.9kRecs339.6kFans
- 36 Reborn: The Rise of a Tycoon 重生大亨崛起 He woke up to find himself back in Hong Kong. This was an era on the verge of a golden age. This was the story of a tycoon’s rise. 0Votes71.9kRecs108.8kFans
- 37 Reborn as a Capitalist Tycoon 重生资本狂人 In the 1970s, the world economic order underwent a seismic shift. The Bretton Woods system collapsed, and the oil crisis erupted. Hong Kong, on its way to becoming Asia’s financial center, entered its first great era of mass stock speculation, a time brimming with opportunity. And a young project manager somehow found himself in this era, as Chinese capital began to rise. On this dazzling grand stage, countless strivers, speculators, overnight millionaires, power players, prestigious families, o 0Votes166.5kRecs128.4kFans
- 38 From Today On, I'm a Big Shot 从今开始当大佬 After watching the 2019 Spring Festival Gala, Zheng Ge arrived in a world steeped in commerce. The story begins with a loan crisis. (Five updates a day. 0Votes123kRecs173.6kFans
- 39 The Great Warriors of the Sui and Tang 隋唐大猛士 My cousin is Qin Shubao, and my younger brother is Luo Shixin. I was just a country boy, but I grew into the mighty warrior of the Sui and Tang dynasties: the White Tiger, Luo Cheng. 0Votes170.4kRecs154.5kFans
- 40 Reborn as a Japanese Investor 重生之日本投资家 Capital is power. The more you invest, the greater your power. 0Votes118.2kRecs96.4kFans
- 41 The Reborn Age of Wildfire 重生野火时代 [The Reformed Rake Version]: In my previous life, I was a bastard. After being reborn, I still wasn't a good person. And I definitely wasn't going to take on someone else's baggage! Brothers, pass your burdens on to someone else. I don't want them! [Bittersweet Youth Version]: Turn back the tide of time, and let the regrets of those years blossom into the most dazzling flowers in this life… P.S. A business story focused on everyday life 0Votes31.2kRecs59.5kFans
- 42 Reborn as King of South America 重生南美做国王 In 1868, the tumultuous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement drew to a close, and the Far Eastern continent entered the so-called Tongzhi Restoration. At court, an illusory scene of “song, dance, and the revelry of a golden age” prevailed. In the countryside, starving people were everywhere. Countless poor people left their homes overseas in search of a way to survive. Heading south to Nanyang and west through the passes, a mass migration that would last a century and affect tens of millions of peo 0Votes70.3kRecs104.5kFans
- 43 My Years in Film and Television 我的光影年代 Some say that film is a composite art, using powerful lights to project a continuous sequence of images onto a screen, creating the illusion of real movement. Others say film is a window, a mirror, and a dream. For Lü Xiaoran, movies are just a little garnish on an ordinary life… A friendly reminder: this is a showbiz novel… V group: 599828918 (verification of fan rank required) 0Votes492.6kRecs185.1kFans
- 44 Reborn: The Multinational Tycoon 重生之跨国巨头 My new book, Reborn in Hong Kong: Starting with a Top-Tier Conglomerate, is set in Hong Kong in the late 1980s. Check it out! Fang Zhe, a producer at a small game company in Beijing, returned to 2008 after a car accident. It was a year no Chinese person could forget: devastating snowstorms in the south, the Wenchuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, and the financial crisis. That year, words like iPhone, Android, Wi-Fi, smartphones, and cloud computing gradually entered the public consciousness. 0Votes70.2kRecs103.3kFans
- 45 Hunting Hollywood 狩猎好莱坞 A director from the mainland, born many years in the future, accidentally returns to Hollywood in 1986. From then on, he begins his legendary journey toward gaining control of the world’s largest center of the film and television industry. 0Votes527.7kRecs139.3kFans
- 46 Reborn as the Capitalist Empire's Mogul 重生之资本帝国 When a soul from twenty years in the future is reborn in the body of a young man of Chinese descent with Mexican citizenship, the world is changed forever. Faced with an era of upheaval, Guo Shouyun's ambition surges to unprecedented heights. The internet, wars, the subprime mortgage crisis, the European debt crisis: he seizes every opportunity to make a fortune. After twenty years of painstaking effort, he builds the mightiest financial empire of the twenty-first century! Conspiracy theorists: 0Votes108.5kRecs153.3kFans
- 47 An Unrestrained Life 超级潇洒人生 (An urban alternate setting, entirely fictional. Please do not identify it with real people or events. Entirely fictional, entirely fictional, entirely fictional: an important point repeated three times.) Guo Yongren transmigrates to Hong Kong in 1979, and from then on begins a legendary journey. Entertainment is a must, otherwise we would be letting down this era. Business deals are a must, otherwise we would be letting down those beautiful banknotes. The West must be visited, otherwise we woul 0Votes110.6kRecs182.3kFans
- 48 Legend 1997 传奇1997 The same rebirth, a different 1997. This is the year Sui Bo’s legend begins... 0Votes113.7kRecs125.9kFans
- 49 The Stormy Song Dynasty 风雨大宋 A soul crossed a thousand years and arrived in the mid-Northern Song, during the reign of Emperor Renzong. He starts a business in a small county town to improve his family's circumstances, then passes the jinshi exam and becomes an official, taking one steady step after another. During the Song dynasty's most prosperous age, this soul from a later era fulfills his life's ambitions and rises to the highest ranks of government. 0Votes333kRecs78.6kFans
- 50 Walking Across the Heavens 恒行诸天 Lu Heng becomes the protagonist of his own novel, enters the path of cultivation through internal martial arts, and travels through movie worlds. Traversing the Myriad Heavens: gods and demons flee before him! Completed worlds: 1. "Let the Bullets Fly" + "Call of Heroes" + "The Final Master" 2. "New Dragon Gate Inn" + "Reign of Assassins" + "Deadful Melody" 3. "Detective Dee: The Dragon King" + "Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon" + a spoof of "Journey to the West" 4. "Journey to the We 0Votes48.6kRecs86.7kFans
