Novels like China Chic 1980
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as China Chic 1980, best match first.
- 1 Reborn in 1987: My Girlfriend Is from 1907 重生87，我的女友来自1907 The second checkpoint at Pengcheng was a dividing line. It separated the Special Economic Zone, and two different eras. At the foot of Wutong Mountain in Pengcheng. Li Weidong, reborn from the future, meets Lin Xiuying, a young martial arts heroine from the late Qing dynasty who has transmigrated to the present at the same time. “Brother Weidong, to be fair, I may not be as good as you at arguing, but when it comes to fighting, you definitely can’t beat me.” “Brother Weidong, someone aske 134Votes19.9kRecs50.2kFans
- 2 Time Roundhouse-Kicked Me 我被时间回旋踢 You like being reborn? Then I'll let you be reborn as many times as you want! They say being reborn is a blessing that lets you make up for every regret in life. But is it really that simple? Zhuo Qun died in 2019 at the age of forty-one, disillusioned with his life, only to wake up again in 1996. Overjoyed, he thought he would finally have a perfect life. But even with memori 0Votes77.4kRecs23.3kFans
- 3 I Really Never Wanted to Become a Top Student in the Past 我真没想在过去的年代当学霸 A mediocre college student transmigrates into the impoverished, fervent era. Who would have thought that my family would have an eldest brother, a second brother, a third brother, a fourth and fifth brother, an eldest sister, a second sister, a third and fourth sister, and three to five younger brothers and sisters? There are two or three older uncles in the courtyard, one or two younger uncles, a second aunt and a younger aunt. My father ranks first at slacking off, while my mother ranks first 0Votes143.5kRecs161.1kFans
- 4 A Young Peddler in the Old Days 年代里的小货郎 Zhang Fang transmigrated to 1949, just as a new era began and the old world was turned upside down. He chose to become a carefree peddler, selling goods, catching a few secret agents, saving a little money, and watching the winds shift and clouds gather as he ambled through the times. … 183Votes24.6kRecs93.9kFans
- 5 The Easygoing Rural Life of an American 自在的美利坚田园生活 A strange man, an adorable little girl, and a cheeky dog. This odd little group sets out from deep in the mountains. After all the bizarre and extraordinary things they’ve been through, Zhang Dawei has changed. He’s become more cheerful and generous, stronger and funnier, because now he knows what kind of life is most precious! Riding horses with his daughter, herding cattle, and following Xiaobai to beat bears and chase off wolves: this is the life Zhang Dawei feels most at ease with. Yes, a ca 0Votes22.8kRecs31.5kFans
- 6 Li Maoyang, the Village Doctor 乡村中医李茂阳 A reckless young man who never even finished high school studies Chinese medicine in hopes of finding a way forward. To his surprise, he makes a name for himself and shakes up the entire world of traditional medicine! See how he uses Chinese medicine to treat patients, and whether he can really cure them with it. All the medical cases in this book are adapted and analyzed from real cases. Readers may learn the prin 2Votes39.1kRecs61.9kFans
- 7 The Grandmaster of the Siheyuan 四合院里的大国宗师 Gao Zhendong transmigrates into the world of "The Courtyard". There, he is a true son of the people: strong and healthy, handsome, a veteran with a distinguished military record, university-educated, technically skilled, financially secure, and backed by a System. He has the knowledge from his previous life before transmigrating, supplies guaranteed by the System, and occasional flashes of future wisdom from lucky draws. He doesn’t want to spend his days scheming over trivial matters and pocket 19Votes180.9kRecs480.7kFans
- 8 Summer’s Approach 临夏 He has no grand ambitions. Fang Lin just wants to live in this world, and live well alongside the people he cherishes. … P.S. Not a goody-two-shoes story. A slice-of-life tale that explores and reflects history through the perspective of a family. … 0Votes31.3kRecs158.9kFans
- 9 Nursing Children in the Journey to the West 我在西游奶孩子 After transmigrating into Journey to the West as a wild boar, Zhu An finally accepted reality and faced it bravely. He ended up with a litter of piglets, and the strongest among them turned out to be Pigsy, who had only just been reincarnated! (Note: The male lead became a pig before Pigsy was born, and had already cultivated into a demon. You know how it is.) Zhu An: “Keep up with your old man! The fake Heavenly Court is full of fresh, juicy cabbages waiting for us to root around in!” The goofy 0Votes48kRecs47kFans
- 10 EN Symbiotic Panel: Farming for Immortality in the Cultivation World 共生面板，我在修仙界种田长生 [Cultivation + Farming + Everyday Life + A World Abundant in Resources] When Li Ye transmigrated to the cultivation world, he thought he'd have a difficult time making progress on the path of cultivation. He never expected this world to be so unimaginably rich in resources. Powerful cultivators regulate market prices, deliberately releasing cultivation resources and opportunities to support low-level cultivators, so that every cultivator can pursue the path of immortality. On top of that, he gai 2Votes61.5kRecs170.7kFans
- 11 Sean's Struggle 肖恩的奋斗 Amid the roar of steam engines, lead bullets were pressed into shape. Soldiers lined up shoulder to shoulder and took aim at the mighty blood warriors, while bronze cannons roared. Bloodthirsty predators hid among the celebrating crowds, secretly sneering at the splendid aristocratic carriages. Ambitious schemers held their wine and watched the tides of fortune change with a smile... 0Votes56.3kRecs30.1kFans
- 12 Back to 1977: Farming and Raising Kids 重回七七种田养娃 Xu Shiyan is reborn forty years in the past, on the second day after his wedding. His lovely new bride has just arrived, and everything is off to the best possible start. He can grow crops, go hunting, and head into the mountains to dig up a giant ginseng root whenever he likes. Life in the 1970s really isn't so bad. He wasn't much to speak of in his previous life, and he has no grand ambitions in this one. He just wants to live happily with his wife and raise their daughters to succeed. His eld 3Votes131.1kRecs363.2kFans
- 13 They Said We'd Convert the Military to Civilian Use, So What's with This Gas Canister? 说好军转民，这煤气罐什么鬼？ Wang Ye was reborn and returned to 1982. A graduate of Huaqing University, he volunteered to become the director of the Red Star Military Industry Factory and carry out military-to-civilian conversion reforms. “They said this was military-to-civilian conversion, so what is this gas cylinder supposed to be?” When the senior officials saw the first product Wang Ye had developed for the Red Star Military Industry Factory, they were left completely dumbfounded! And all of this was because Wang Ye un 0Votes216.4kRecs716.1kFans
- 14 The Dragon Knight's Happiness 龙骑士的快乐 “Wealth corrupts me, good looks bewilder me, and wisdom leaves me lonely. I, Baron Aldington, only wish to wander through a sea of books for this glorious, long life.” The story of a small landowner who rises through the shifting tides of power and ultimately becomes a dragon knight. 0Votes92.2kRecs68.9kFans
- 15 I Want to Become a Hong Kong Tycoon 我要做港岛豪门 After transmigrating to 1947, Wu Guangyao wasted no time choosing to keep running and made his way to Hong Kong. First, he followed the path of “Fourth Uncle” Li Zhaoji, opening a gold and silver shop to trade foreign exchange. Next, he followed the example of Japan’s YKK, importing automatic zipper machines from Germany and building a zipper business. Then he entered real estate, pioneering the presale of unbuilt apartments and ushering in the era of presale housing. He became a shipping magnat 0Votes67.4kRecs155kFans
- 16 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
- 17 Reborn as a Great Architect 重生之大建筑师 Reborn in the 1980s, he becomes the world’s greatest architectural designer. Dubai’s ruler: Hey, could you design the world’s tallest building for us? The French president: I’d like to ask you to create a new landmark in Paris. Lin Lou: Sorry, I’m busy designing the main stadium for the 2008 Olympics. I don’t have time! 0Votes81.5kRecs80.8kFans
- 18 The Way of the Commoner Is King 庶道为王 He accidentally stumbles into a world altered by a transmigrator who came before him, and simply goes with the flow... 0Votes323kRecs69.2kFans
- 19 EN The Empire: Starting with the Fourth Calamity 帝国从第四天灾开始 - I transmigrate into the world of Star Wars and take command of a mothership from Homeworld. Everyone even calls me the Administrator... - The mothership's database somehow contains technology from all kinds of sci-fi games: StarCraft, Sins of a Solar Empire, Halo, Mass Effect, EVE, Stellaris. And it even has characters from those games... - I can't control my emotions. The dark side of the Force is influencing me, and I've become an apprentice to the Dark Lord Darth Plagueis... - To survive th 73Votes213.3kRecs196.2kFans
- 20 The Boundless Great Physician 大医无疆 He kills a man with every ten steps, leaving no trace even after a thousand miles! A demonic leader from an evil sect breaks through the barriers of time and space, becoming the descendant of a master physician. It is an era when traditional medicine is waning and successors are few and far between. The healing arts are in decline. The martial arts are disappearing. Humanity is sinking into depravity. Beneath the peaceful surface of a world of song and dance lies another Jianghu, treacherous and 15Votes1.4MRecs734.8kFans
- 21 Reborn in 1990 as an Invisible Tycoon 重生1990之隐形富豪 After falling out with his family over a huge housing-demolition compensation payment, the protagonist fell from a thirty-three-story balcony and landed on the final day of the previous year. Reborn with a property deed in his arms and twenty thousand yuan in his hand, he rushed into the shopping mall, ready to make his mark, only to be stunned by the prices in the markets of the early 1990s! Rice cost only twenty cents per jin, and gasoline was just sixty or seventy cents per liter! Vegetables 0Votes116.2kRecs145.8kFans
- 22 I Have a Catalog of Ghosts and Gods 我有一卷鬼神图录 Jiang Zhou is brought to the Great Ji by a scroll of ghostly records. Using half an episode of Journey to the West on his phone, he fools a vicious demoness into complete submission. Claiming to be a disciple of Mount Lingtai Fangcun and the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars, he sets out on a path to the heavens... Demons run rampant, yet immortals dwell in the mortal world. With one ancient register, he gains the blessings of creation. He commands the execution of ghosts, confers titles 1Votes132.4kRecs494.2kFans
- 23 Reborn in the Past: Shaking the Four Corners 重生过去震八方 An accident causes a forty-year-old man to be reborn in the body of an eight-year-old child, beginning his flamboyant life. 0Votes438.4kRecs278.2kFans
- 24 The Hammer of Technology 科技之锤 “We’ll go first and kill ourselves. Who’s brave enough to follow?” The Earth’s surface is locked in a nuclear winter. A magnificent city stands on Mars, yet a group of Chinese scientists have chosen to blow themselves up, all to send a biological computer back... Ning Wei has just received the biological computer from the future, but all he can think about is how to use the rules of academia to get rich by churning out SCI papers... “Forty swings with the small hammer, eighty with the big one.” 0Votes128.8kRecs373.8kFans
- 25 I Rewrote My Family’s History 我重写了家族历史 We've all seen stories about modern people transmigrating. But what kind of story would it be if a 120-year-old man living in the 21st century were reborn in his own youth? It was the final years of the Qing dynasty, a time of upheaval. Xu Cong was reborn as a wild fox. As a fox immortal, he began guiding his former self and making up for past regrets... “Great-grandpa, did you ever follow a celebrity? I like Jay Chou. The little yellow flower in the story has been drifting since the year I was 0Votes54.1kRecs105.7kFans
- 26 The Northern Song Dynasty's Young Literary Prodigy 北宋小文豪 Su Lu is in the Northern Song dynasty, and his hometown is Meishan. Born into a wealthy official's family, Su Lu has lived in luxury since childhood. Spoiled and pampered, he has no lofty ambitions and is only cut out to live off someone else. He is actively looking for a partner to take him on so he can spend the rest of his life as an unambitious couch potato. He's already made a thorough plan for his future: if he really can't find a wife who can support him, he doesn't mind staying home and 0Votes114.6kRecs66.3kFans
- 27 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
- 28 Reborn as an Electronics Empire 重生电子帝国 Li Xuan, a Chinese returnee, has an accident after failing to fasten his seat belt as his plane lands at Hong Kong International Airport. To his surprise, he transmigrates and is reborn as a Hong Kong teenager with the same name in 1979. In 1979, the computer age is just beginning, while the video game era is reaching its peak. Pac-Man, an unassuming arcade game, sells a staggering 100,000 units in a single year and takes 0Votes126.3kRecs85.7kFans
- 29 The Great Era of Returning 回流大时代 Reborn, but twenty years too early. Chen Dahe is completely bewildered and feels utterly helpless! 0Votes90.9kRecs81.4kFans
- 30 I Have a Home in 1982 我在1982有个家 Wang Yi gets a key. Open a door in 2022, and it leads to 1982. Open a door in 1982, and it takes him back to 2022. Two vastly different eras lie before him: Plentiful food, advanced industrial products, miracle medicines, and an explosion of information: this is 2022. Simple, honest customs, abundant wild resources, forgotten antiques, and treasures of a bygone age: this is 1982. Traveling between these two eras, Wang Yi has no grand ambitions. He just wants to enjoy a comfortable, fulfilling li 3Votes659.1kRecs510.5kFans
- 31 The Age of the Yellow Sky 黄天之世 The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall rise. In the year of Jiazi, all under heaven shall prosper! “Hardship, corruption, oppression!” “We common folk have suffered hardship, while corrupt officials run rampant and oppress us at will. We're nothing but peddlers, laborers, farmers, and soldiers. We have no place to call our own, and the Han emperor doesn't even know we exist. To the lofty emperor of the Han, we're nothing but ants!” “The government troops call us the Yellow Turbans!” “ 0Votes123kRecs303.6kFans
- 32 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
- 33 Divination and Building 卜筑 By middle age, all things come to an end, yet one might still say, “What a lovely autumn chill.” If you haven’t made your mark by thirty, you won’t grow wealthy by forty; at fifty, even a high-ranking official might seek the end of the road. 0Votes389.7kRecs163.6kFans
- 34 Starting with Chips in 1991 1991从芯开始 Su Yuanshan, chief architect at Haixin, was reborn in 1991. Back when AMD was still surviving by copying Intel, he began laying the groundwork with EDA, seizing the initiative before the Wassenaar Arrangement. He would give the domestic semiconductor industry a whole new lease on life. A great nation's rise begins with chips! A new novel is underway: Reborn in '99: Starting Out as a Tutor to a Top Student 2Votes217.4kRecs302.5kFans
- 35 Raising the Han Dynasty 举汉 In the second year of Xingping (195 AD), Liu Jing, a young man from Changsha in Jingzhou, died and came back to life. Though he was a descendant of the Han imperial clan, and his ancestors had once served as the Three Excellencies, the family had fallen on hard times by now. His father had died long ago, and his elder brother had just passed away. All that remained were his stepmother and young siblings, his widowed sister-in-law and orphaned nephew. The house was full of women and children, and 0Votes188.2kRecs140.3kFans
- 36 The Calligrapher and Painter from the Mountain Village 山沟书画家 New book: The Peerless Sage of Calligraphy is now out! Masters of calligraphy and painting from every era teach and pass on their skills, while he shoulders the responsibility of reviving traditional martial arts. A brush technique unchanged for millennia, lost to history until now: the Nine Divine Gestures make their return. The legendary life of an unknown country bumpkin transformed into a master of calligraphy and painting will be written by me! Readers’ group: 458448029 0Votes66.2kRecs66kFans
- 37 Reborn in the Great Era of 1993 重生大时代之1993 The story of Zhang Xuan, who becomes a literary giant after being reborn. 41Votes460.5kRecs1.3MFans
- 38 A Common Man 市井之辈 Gu Cheng said: The night gave me black eyes, but I use them to search for light. Hong Tao said: My eyes are black too, but I use them to see through the night. 0Votes268.4kRecs135.3kFans
- 39 My Little Farmstead in 1978 我的1978小农庄 A small farm opens in a mountain village far from the noise of the city. Here, there is Moutai that costs more than ten yuan a bottle after aging for seven or eight years, and Wuliangye that costs seven or eight yuan. Organic vegetables, organic fish and shrimp, organic boiled mutton, all green, eco-friendly, and delicious. A failed, middle-aged divorced man turns around and becomes the leisurely owner of a farm. The small mountain-village farm becomes famous far and wide. Slippers, undershirt, 8Votes866.3kRecs407.4kFans
- 40 The British Civil Servant 大英公务员 The Second World War, which engulfed the entire world, was entering its final stages, but the decline of the British Empire had only just begun. The United States and the Soviet Union looked forward to a glorious future, knowing that the fallen aristocracy was no longer an obstacle. “I do not agree with their ideas, but dismantling British India first is not entirely a bad thing.” 0Votes566.4kRecs426.2kFans
- 41 I Don't Want to Be Emperor Again 朕又不想当皇帝 Given a second chance at life, he only wanted to live in peace. But everyone insisted on making him emperor... 0Votes981.6kRecs520.2kFans
- 42 Back to My Boyhood 回档少年时 If you were born into misfortune and have lived in misery, the distortions of the age and a violated soul have branded you with a life that can never be redone. 2022: Love in rebirth, the young return. 12Votes404.3kRecs506.1kFans
- 43 The Consumerist Heartthrob 消费系男神 As the tides of the times surge forward, Han Lie obtains a consumption System and swims against the current. 0Votes605.2kRecs762.8kFans
- 44 A Journey to the Ming 旅明 Cao Chuan used to shuttle local goods back and forth between the late Ming Dynasty and the modern era all by himself. Then one day, he discovered that even living people could be transported! It’s time to gather a team of ace soldiers, top students, CEOs, and miracle doctors, and head to the late Ming to conquer the world! After that, a bunch of good-for-nothings, unemployed drifters, construction contractors, and even slipper sellers are sent away in succession. There’s no choice. These people 0Votes302.6kRecs75.8kFans
- 45 Reborn in the Soaring Years 重生飞扬年代 Du Fei has been reborn. In this difficult era of extreme scarcity, he begins an extraordinary life with cheat-like powers... 13Votes542.5kRecs747.2kFans
- 46 Tang Cavalry 唐骑 The gale rages, sweeping across ten thousand miles. Wherever the horses’ hooves tread, there lies the Great Tang! 0Votes401.3kRecs211.1kFans
- 47 I Descended into the Myriad Worlds 我降临于诸天世界 New book: You're Cultivating Immortality All Wrong has started serializing! Welcome, readers! Lately, rumors have been spreading through the myriad worlds that I, Chen Chushi, am devious and treacherous, cruel in my methods, and willing to do anything to get what I want... Slander! I'm an upright man who stands up to bullies and helps the weak! The Descent of Kui, The Curse, The First Rule, Seven Days After the Zombie Rebirth, The Great Zombie Era, The Tag-Along, The Haunted School, The Ten Curs 1Votes147.2kRecs758.7kFans
- 48 EN Back to 1982: A Second Chance in a Fishing Village 重回1982小渔村 A fishing-and-seaside-life story set in the 1980s, with an average of 35,000 paid subscribers. The animated series of the same name, Back to 1982: A Small Fishing Village, launched on Hongguo on August 7! [Everyday life in the 1980s: fishing, farming, raising kids, and family squabbles. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read or leave hate!] It’s the same familiar little fishing village, but Ye Yaodong is no longer the young man he used to be. Reborn into the pas 221Votes2.1MRecs2MFans
- 49 Heavenly Official of Blessings and Virtue 福德天官 When the false is taken for true, even the true becomes false; when nothing is mistaken for something, even something becomes nothing. A fake Earth God: I shall become the cycle of reincarnation! A real Earth God: Once I kill you, I’ll set up a grand feng shui formation and give you a nice-looking burial mound. A fake Earth God: Great virtue bears all things. A real Earth God: Not bad. I’ll take that. Heavenly treasures belong to whoever has the virtue to claim them. Fake Earth God: Honest and s 4Votes180.5kRecs446.1kFans
- 50 EN Warhammer Wizard 战锤巫师 Fake wizard: Casts shields instantly, blinks away, covers the ground with a grease spell, then smacks you in the face with five massive fireballs. The embodiment of knowledge and artillery. Real wizard: Blood Fury, a body of steel, charges right into your face, Waaaaaaaaaagh, swings a warhammer and smashes your head in. This is the story of a melee wizard hammering his way through the whole world! Keywords: invincible protagonist, Warhammer, pseudo-DND, Azeroth, the Abyss, the Four Evil Gods, p 1Votes416.8kRecs484.4kFans
