Novels like The Golden Age of Chinese Entertainment
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Golden Age of Chinese Entertainment, 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 Chinese Showbiz's First-Generation Top-Tier Star 华娱之初代顶流 At the end of 2009, Chen Jing leaves Super Junior-M and returns to China, becoming one of the country's first top-tier stars. From then on, China enters the age of mega-stardom! Chen Jing: “A top-tier star isn't scary. Having no work to show for it is what's embarrassing!” Chen Jing: “I'll take the path of a top-tier star and leave top-tier stars nowhere to go!” Chen Jing: “Only elementary school students have to choose. Traffic, great works, XX, I want it all!” “Sh 0Votes37.5kRecs118.3kFans
- 3 Marvel: The Super-Time Cop 漫威之超时空战警 His soul arrives in the Marvel Universe, where he has a strange System but cannot do whatever he pleases. The law must govern his actions. Whether he is arresting superheroes or supervillains, detaining Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or alien princes, or killing Hydra spies or members of The Hand, he must first start out as a police officer. 0Votes12kRecs41kFans
- 4 Prisoner of Calamity 灾厄之囚 I am the shadow of darkness, the herald of the apocalypse; I am the embodiment of misfortune, the master of calamity; When the throne of white bones rises high, the authority over disaster shall be mine! Evil spirits, curses, divination, stitched-together abominations, hourglasses of time, mechanical augmentation, werewolves, vampires, gods, the abyss, elemental lords... The protagonist is rational and ruthless. A steampunk tale with a Lovecraftian vibe. 0Votes11.2kRecs11.1kFans
- 5 Showbiz: Sweeping the Globe 娱乐之横扫全球 In an age when the stars vie for favor, in an age of endless business opportunities, Li Yun, also known as Lin Yun, is reborn on Hong Kong Island and rises with the tide, dominating the entire island and even the world... 0Votes30kRecs50.8kFans
- 6 A Grandmaster in the Entertainment Industry 娱乐圈之一代宗师 A martial arts prodigy returns to Hong Kong to write a passionate, blood-pumping legend of a grandmaster. 0Votes54.3kRecs25.6kFans
- 7 The Rise of a Superstar in Chinese Showbiz 华娱之巨星崛起 He had just inherited a fortune worth billions from his rich uncle, but before he could enjoy it, some useless System hurled him back to 2002. Fang Yunmo: Tell me, how do I get back and enjoy my vast fortune? Useless System: Just do this and that... and then you can go back. Fang Yunmo: ...Do you take me for an idiot? P.S. The System plays only a minor role. Readers who don't like system stories can ignore it; it won't affect your reading. The author has already completed The Glory of Chinese En 0Votes33.7kRecs22.4kFans
- 8 The Director Strikes Back 进击的导演 0Votes12.7kRecs64.8kFans
- 9 Reborn: Riding the Tides of a New Era 重生之搏浪大时代 Being reborn doesn’t solve everything! A cautious reborn man keeps a low profile, hoping to achieve financial freedom as soon as possible and then live a happy, carefree life like a pig. Born in a turbulent era, he soon discovers that he often has no say in what happens and no choice but to go along. 0Votes342.3kRecs155.8kFans
- 10 The Unfamous Movie Emperor 非著名影帝 [A quick plug for my new book, "Stealing Skills from Celebrities: I’m Invincible". If it sounds like your thing, go check it out!!!] Mr. Sun Hao, could you briefly introduce yourself? Well... how should I put it? Among writers, I’m the best singer; among musicians, I’m the best actor; among actors, I’m the best director; and among directors, I’m the most handsome... With looks like mine, I’d wipe the floor with everyone, whether it’s Xiaogang, Yimou, or Kaige here at home, or Cameron and Spielbe 0Votes56.4kRecs128.6kFans
- 11 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
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 Marvel: The Great Movie Demolition 漫威之电影大破坏 From the start, I picked up a Scarlet Witch and, along the way, became Iron Man's sworn enemy. This whole setup seems a little off, doesn't it? Fortunately, I have a golden finger, but this System also seems a little strange. I want to be a good person, so why is the whole world pushing me into being a villain? A solo infinite-flow story mainly set in the Marvel Universe. 0Votes80.6kRecs113.1kFans
- 15 Reborn as a Mining Tycoon 重生之矿业巨头 Li Tang was reborn on the eve of the new millennium. He knew how the mining market would develop over the next twenty years, had the coordinates of every newly discovered super-deposit, and understood the ins and outs of the century’s biggest mergers and acquisitions between mining giants... Experts were still lamenting that all the richest deposits were in the hands of mining conglomerates. The giants were fretting over their aging mines and dwindling reserves, and their strategies had shifted 0Votes28.8kRecs113.9kFans
- 16 Chinese Showbiz: A Director's Simple Joy 华娱：导演的快乐就这么简单 Reborn in 2000, does being a film directing student mean you have to join the entertainment industry? Lu Ping'an wiped his glasses. “Sure, I'm handsome, but sorry. I have a house, a car, and stocks. I can lie flat until old age without a worry, so I'll pass on joining the entertainment industry and burning through my vitality and lifespan.” [Ding~ Successfully wrapped production on The Piano Tuner. Reward: enhanced physique; nearsightedness can be corrected.] Lu Ping'an: “Help me up!” 0Votes28kRecs238kFans
- 17 I'm an Acting Pro 我是演技派 In his previous life, he achieved nothing. In the next, a chance encounter and an unexpected brush with the world of film led to an unforgettable experience that suddenly made him realize life didn’t have to stay the same. From then on, he couldn’t get enough... 0Votes95.1kRecs105.1kFans
- 18 The Daily Life of a Young Chinese Showbiz Star 华娱小生日常 Su Mu is reborn and becomes the hottest star in the entertainment industry! Thank you for your support! 0Votes63.6kRecs72.6kFans
- 19 Warlords Vie for Supremacy: Global Online 诸侯争霸之全球在线 At noon on December 19, 2017, Earth underwent a sudden transformation. Its surface area doubled, and modern civilization vanished. People from every dynasty in history returned to Earth, which became a real-life game of conquest. Everyone is welcome to join the Warlord Conquest group chat. 0Votes17.9kRecs11.9kFans
- 20 The Protagonist's Taunt Aura 主角嘲讽光环 "Naruto, you like Hinata, and I like Hinata too. Doesn't that put us on the same side?" "Conan, you like Ran Mouri, and I like Ran Mouri too. Aren't we on the same side?" "Ken Kaneki, you like Touka Kirishima, and I like Touka Kirishima too. Doesn't that mean we're..." "Get lost!" Naruto Uzumaki, Conan, Ken Kaneki. 0Votes2.7kRecs9.6kFans
- 21 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
- 22 The World’s Greatest Director 全球大导演 “Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have successfully unlocked the All-Around Director System!” “Congratulations to Su Xiaofan on winning both the Best Director and Best Screenwriter awards!” “Wait, Director Su, please stay a moment. The Best Actor award is yours too... Is there anything you'd like to say?” “Uh... First, I'd like to thank that restroom I used when I was nervous during my film school entrance exam...” From then on, that men's restroom in the Film Academy's directing and acting buil 0Votes19kRecs14.8kFans
- 23 The Movie Emperor Begins with Sign-In 影帝从签到开始 In the entertainment industry, there are countless actors with good acting skills who work hard but never quite make it big. A little fame depends on promotion, major fame depends on fate, and forcing someone to stardom invites disaster. So how can Ye Qin, an unknown extra with no connections, no company, and no background, make it big? He is Hu Ge's stunt double in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". He is the most handsome Er 0Votes59.2kRecs187.4kFans
- 24 Power Over the North and South 权倾南北 In an age of chaos, people are like specks of dust, swept along by the wind with no say in their own fate. After accidentally transmigrating as the descendant of an old soldier from the White Robe Army, this oddball office worker has more urgent concerns than grand ambitions and unifying the realm: first, he has to stay alive in this era. Here are Yang Jian, Li Yuan, and Yuchi Jiong, among countless ambitious warlords; 0Votes52.6kRecs56.6kFans
- 25 The Rise of a Mogul 大腕崛起 In 2013, mainland China’s total box office smashed through the 20-billion mark! In 2012, a single Chinese-language film broke the 1.2-billion box-office record for the first time! In 2011, a Chinese-language film reached 100 million dollars at the box office for the first time! In 2010, mainland China’s total box office surged past 10 billion! In 2009, three films in the mainland market each 0Votes52.9kRecs52.3kFans
- 26 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
- 27 A Portrait of Hong Kong Life 本港风情画 Hong Kong, 1983: a city alive with restless glamour, in an era when dreams were set free. Chen Weiyun arrives from across the sea, ready to show life at its most brilliant through film. 1Votes201.9kRecs82.5kFans
- 28 Becoming a Big Shot in America 在美利坚当大咖 Li Lei, an art student, brings along one terabyte of resources he's accumulated over the past 20 years when his soul transmigrates into Tracy Lee, a Harvard super-programmer in 2002. Now he faces a new challenge: how to break into Hollywood. No way is he becoming a programmer. (This is pure fiction. If anything sounds familiar, then great! Don't overthink it.) P.S. I made a group. Group 0Votes76.7kRecs27.1kFans
- 29 Showbiz: I Really Want to Improve Too Much 娱乐：我实在太想进步了 "A year after his debut, he became a breakout sensation. Two years later, his star status skyrocketed. How has Zhou Yutang improved so quickly?!" "That's what happens when you're handsome and talented." "In this era of everyone trying to outdo one another at being terrible, other stars are still fighting over billing to get ahead, while he's already become a mogul with capital at his fingertips." "He's an unparalleled movie star, the king of commercial-film directors, the dream man of the actres 171Votes180kRecs520kFans
- 30 Chinese Entertainment’s Crazy Years 华娱之疯狂年代 In this crazy era of chasing traffic, be an even crazier contrarian! 0Votes61.6kRecs39.1kFans
- 31 From Rising Star to Superstar 从流量到巨星 When Huo Ke wakes up, he discovers that he has transmigrated to a parallel-world China and become a member of a group that debuted through a talent show. Once he understands his situation, Huo Ke, who has dreamed of becoming a star since childhood, sets three goals for himself: 1. Build an image as a gifted songwriter and quickly gain popularity so he can go solo. 2. Break into television and become a top star who can rake in the cash. 3. Make it into the film industry and become a box-office su 0Votes51.1kRecs34.5kFans
- 32 A Dance of Light and Shadow, 1998 光影交错1998 (New book: The Literary World) On television, he is a heroic swordsman in period dramas: Long Bo in The Bride with White Hair and Lian Chengbi in Xiao Shiyilang. On the big screen, he is a delivery man on the banks of the Suzhou River, a young courier roaming the streets of the capital, Jiang Wuyang, who roars in grief, “Anyone who harms my brothers will die by my hand,” a frontier general, a village teacher, and a lonely soul free to roam the ocean. He moves audiences with his films and earns a 1Votes38.3kRecs62.4kFans
- 33 Once Again in 2010 再一次2010 After sixty years of peace, culture and entertainment flourished. The cultural industry reached an annual value of ten trillion, becoming one of the nation's pillar industries. Film box-office revenue reached one hundred billion, making it the world's second-largest market. Web dramas and online variety shows rose like comets, and the internet became an entirely new entertainment platform. This was an age of entertainment, a carnival of culture, this was… All right, I really cannot keep making 0Votes67.2kRecs87.7kFans
- 34 The Water Margin: A Tale of Conquest 水浒逐鹿传 Transmigrate into Water Margin and contend for supremacy! Chat group: 294684407 (fan verification required; readers of both old and new books are welcome). 0Votes218.9kRecs108.1kFans
- 35 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
- 36 My Girlfriend Is a Superstar 我家女友是巨星 I woke up in a parallel world. The story begins at a music academy... 0Votes158.3kRecs138.1kFans
- 37 The Big Player in Light and Shadow 光影大玩家 Cheng Yu’an, a flop director, returned to 2002. He had no plans to change the entertainment industry. He just wanted to make some money and enjoy a quiet life with his wife and children. But somehow, as he kept making films, things took a turn: “Look, I really just want to make some money. Stop treating me like the godfather of cinema!” “My goal is to retire at forty. Stop asking me to make more movies!” “All the films on the charts are mine. What else am I supposed to shoot?!” “I’m out, I’m out 2Votes34.1kRecs115.7kFans
- 38 My Director Era 我的导演时代 I'm a director, a director who makes great movies: Li Qian PS: A Chinese entertainment-industry novel with a single female lead. 0Votes206.8kRecs183.1kFans
- 39 This Director Is Very Reliable 这个导演很靠谱 Filming a television or film production is an enormously expensive and mentally exhausting undertaking. Making a movie is difficult, and making a good movie is harder still. With all sorts of messy unspoken rules filling your mind every day, how are you supposed to make a good film? : Shen Changlin V group: 685421440… 0Votes203.6kRecs258.3kFans
- 40 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
- 41 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
- 42 The World of the Arts 文艺世界 New book: Love Yourself, Director In 2001, domestic art-house directors were rushing one after another toward Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. Commercial directors were obsessed with making blockbusters and taking on the global box office. At this time, Fang Nan was quietly working as a stuntman on one film set after another, starting from the bottom and eventually becoming a top-tier director known worldwide! 0Votes56kRecs164.8kFans
- 43 Starting a Showbiz Career with Variety Shows 文娱从综艺开始 After getting a second chance at life, Fang Jing never expected to be chosen for "Metamorphosis", the show netizens call a rich people’s game that poor people take seriously. The kicker? He’s on the poor side… 0Votes114kRecs247.4kFans
- 44 I Don't Want to Be the King of Football 我不想当球王 Go play soccer. If it doesn't get your blood pumping, you might as well die! From pickup games to the top of Europe, passion reigns supreme! (Book club: 480225845) My new soccer novel, The Playmaker, is now available. Come check it out! 0Votes38.2kRecs38.5kFans
- 45 Looks Are Justice 颜值就是正义 As the saying goes, a good-looking man can make even scooping cat litter look like golf, while an ugly man makes golf look like scooping cat litter. Looks are a man's best weapon for showing off: they come with a halo and a career boost. Lin Pingzhi has no special talents, apart from his stunning looks and a twenty-eight centimeter one. And a heart set on stirring up trouble. (A showbiz story: good looks and real talent, redefining the pretty-boy!) P.S. The author wrote this after a heartbreak, 0Votes58.3kRecs54kFans
- 46 Reborn as a New Farmer in the 1980s 重生之八十年代新农民 Reborn in a rural village in 1980, at the beginning of the reform and opening-up period, everything is in the past, yet everything is also a beginning. New challenges have begun. How will the protagonist write the story of his life this time? 0Votes154.4kRecs97.1kFans
- 47 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
- 48 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
- 49 The Black Gold Overlord 黑金霸主 An oil industry worker transmigrates forty years into the past and becomes a disciple of the King of Oil. In this golden age, he rises from disciple to a generation-defining overlord. 0Votes80.4kRecs45.1kFans
- 50 Yang Fei, the Richest Man 首富杨飞 Time folded in on itself, and Yang Fei returned to 1993. Amid the tumult of a great era, he would grow unchecked and live a life of dazzling brilliance! 0Votes106.6kRecs156.2kFans
