Novels like Reborn in 1993
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Reborn in 1993, best match first.
- 1 Building a Media Empire, Starting with Saw 打造传媒巨头，从电锯惊魂开始 Note: This story focuses more on business and has less entertainment-industry content. Back in 2003, Li Yang starts with the movies he knows so well. He takes control of cinema chains, seizing the lifeline of film scheduling; acquires media outlets, creates Weibo, and steers public opinion! He enters gaming, devours Blizzard and T2 to build a gaming empire, and expands into esports worldwide; builds his own streaming platform, upends traditional distribution, and gets users around the world to p 63Votes4.2kRecs45.3kFans
- 2 America, 1853: I'm Really Not a Troublemaker 美利坚1853：我真的不是刁民 "What was the most popular profession in the nineteenth century?" "Bandits and executioners!" "Who was the best of them?" "Me!" 0Votes11.3kRecs31.5kFans
- 3 Reborn in 2008: Starting a Business as a Rogue Cultivator 重生08，邪修创业 After being laid off by a shady cultivator, Wang Junshan was reborn in 2008. With one wild move after another, he set out to build his own shady cultivation empire! From campus group-buying to niche e-commerce. From social networking among acquaintances to browser games. From developing smartphones to investing in new energy... It all seemed like small-time hustle, struggling in the gaps between industry giants, but in reality, he was laying the foundations for a grand strategic plan. Years late 109Votes53.7kRecs186kFans
- 4 Those Years I Was Forced to Make the Forbes List 被迫登顶福布斯的那些年 Chen, a tycoon who once slogged through cement dust and steel rebar, and weathered the stock market’s rises and falls, opens his eyes to find himself back at the dawn of the internet bubble, when infrastructure development was surging ahead. To fund his technology ventures, he scrambles for money and is forced to become the richest man in the country… … As the nation’s technology rises and economic cycles are reshaped, nobody believes that: At first, all he wanted was to make a smartphone. … T 422Votes76.3kRecs296.3kFans
- 5 Hong Kong Stories: 1963 香江往事1963 Hong Kong history researcher Lin Zhaoyuan discovers he has been reborn on Hong Kong Island in 1963. Here, the four great detectives weave their interests together, laying the foundations of an empire of wealth. Here, powerful factions run rampant, and people clutch their clothes tightly whenever they go outside. Fortunately... The Fiendish Yuan has arrived, and the underworld is at peace! Mr. Lin is here, and Hong Kong finally has an incorruptible champion of justice! 249Votes18.9kRecs93.1kFans
- 6 King of Capital, Rising from 1978 资本之王，从1978开始崛起 Chen Bingwen wakes up to find himself back in 1978. Reform and opening up have only just begun. Asia’s Four Little Dragons are poised for takeoff, while undercurrents are stirring in the global industrial landscape. And in his mind lies a map of every opportunity waiting to emerge over the next forty years. From a dessert shop to a beverage factory, from taking on Coca-Cola with a single bottle of energy drink to crushing Nintendo with arcade games. While others are still fighting over territory 114Votes70.8kRecs252.1kFans
- 7 From Shanghai Tycoon to Hong Kong Mogul 从上海滩大亨到港岛豪门 The waves surge and flow The mighty river stretches on for thousands of miles, never ceasing Washing away the affairs of the world All blending into one surging tide Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s was home not only to gangsters and warlords, but also industrialists and tycoons, with all kinds of powers intertwined. Who would rise and who would fall? Naturally, the one with the sharpest eye. Who could possibly outdo someone who had transmigrated? This book is also known as A Century of Wea 0Votes47.8kRecs217.4kFans
- 8 Returning to Bolang Life 重返博浪人生 (Important notice: This is a heavily “write-by-the-cloud” style commercial novel. If that’s not your thing, don’t read it!!!) Wen Liang gets a second chance at life. Starting by saving a small company on the verge of bankruptcy, he explores all the possibilities life has to offer... “I’m Wen Liang. Please listen closely as I summon the Dragon’s Roar!” 0Votes91.2kRecs169.4kFans
- 9 Reborn in 1984: Developing the Han Card 重生1984：从开发汉卡开始 “What will become of the future when humanity loses its imagination?” A single advertising slogan took 1984 by storm... Back then, computers couldn't support Chinese input unless you installed a Chinese character card. Zhao Ye, a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, returned to 1984 and plunged into business. Starting with the development of Chinese character cards, he founded Imagine, a company built around imagination, and launched into a re 0Votes43.3kRecs126.9kFans
- 10 Tales of America, 1988 美利坚往事1988 Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government sentiment, freedom. Amid the tides of the late 1980s, a country boy from the Rust Belt struggles to press forward just as the door to upward mobility is about to close. College, Silicon Valley, startups, HP, Apple, Microsoft. To become part of the 1%, or even the 0.1%, he gave up a lot and gained a lot. 0Votes30.3kRecs105.3kFans
- 11 The Great Era: 2010 大时代之2010 Also known as Reborn: The Mobile Internet Empire In 2010, the PC era, the three giants BAT dominated the internet industry, towering above their rivals. The rise of Apple and Android smartphones opened the door to the mobile internet. Zhou Yujie, a senior ByteDance programmer, returns to his youth and builds a vast mobile internet empire... (The author has also completed an older novel, Reborn: The Rise of a Tycoon, a purely business-focused urban story. If you enjoy this genre, go check it out! 0Votes41.5kRecs82.5kFans
- 12 Reborn in 2008: Rising from Cheap Knockoff Phones 重生08：从山寨机开始崛起 Reborn in 2008, Xu Shenxue discovered that he had become the owner of a mobile phone company. Unfortunately, the company was facing a crisis. Xu Shenxue simply said, “No problem. System, get to work.” With a research and development System in hand, Xu Shenxue could turn ordinary researchers into experts, and experts into world-class scholars... Developing chips is difficult? Would a hundred scientists be enough? If not, bring in another thousand! Developing lithography machines is difficult? Wou 101Votes71.6kRecs219.6kFans
- 13 Reborn in 2011: From a Second-Tier College to a Top University 重生2011，二本捡漏985 [Over 35,000 premium subscriptions, a top-tier hit.] More than ten years ago, the provincial cutoff for a first-tier university unexpectedly let students get into top 985 universities outside the province. Wang Yi and countless other exam takers regretted their choices. Those were the tears of an entire generation! Now reborn in 2011, Wang Yi, who should have gone to an ordinary second-tier university, manages to snag a place at a top 985 school! With e-commerce in one hand and feminine, figure- 0Votes119.9kRecs498.2kFans
- 14 EN Immortality Begins with Stacking Infinite Talents 长生从无限叠加天赋开始 [Mortal's journey] [Slow burn] [Building an enterprise] [He has formed his Nascent Soul. The story only gets better from here, so feel free to dive in!] [Over 8,000 words updated daily, without fail!] The vast lands of Qianyuan stretch far and wide, while the immortal path lies distant. All races vie for supremacy, and ordinary mortals live as briefly as mayflies. Xu Chuan's soul crosses into this world. With a bloodline genealogy in hand, he transforms from mortal to immo 499Votes107kRecs353.4kFans
- 15 Game Development: Starting with a Reboot of an Anime Game 游戏制作：从重铸二次元游戏开始 2015: an era when even pigs could take flight. That year, the anime game boom began as a tiny ripple. Over the next few years, familiar names like Honkai Impact 3rd, Arknights, Azur Lane, and Punishing: Gray Raven would rise alongside a wave of new companies and take their places on the stage of history. That year, China's single-player games were still stumbling forward in confusion, huddled in the fading afterglow of The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Gujian, desperately waiting for someone to 129Votes67.4kRecs182.3kFans
- 16 I Never Wanted to Be an Actor 我没想做演员 An actor? An actor's final destination is selling products on livestream! I'm a huge internet celebrity. Become an actor? Have you lost your mind? 8Votes137.5kRecs362.7kFans
- 17 Chinese Showbiz: The Top-Tier Star Has No Days Off 华娱：顶流没有假期 After ten years toiling as a financial-sector wage slave, Jiang Bai suddenly returns to 2016. Looking at the noisy, tumultuous world, Jiang Bai grins. Finance? Not even a dog would do that! You shouldn't step into the same river twice! In this life, Jiang Bai plans to dive headfirst into the entertainment industry and see how it tastes! He'll start by becoming a top-tier star in campus dramas! What? You say the entertainment industry is a mess? Could it possibly be messier than finance? Jiang Ba 1.4kVotes41.2kRecs265.4kFans
- 18 A Survival Guide to Semiconductors in the New Millennium 千禧年半导体生存指南 Thanks for the invite. I’m in 1998, just got off the plane, and I’m about to crush Yahoo and kick Amazon to the curb! Zhou Xin, former chief representative for commercial negotiations during the pre-ZTE incident and founder of New Core Technology, has unexpectedly returned to 1998. He’ll rise to prominence starting in Silicon Valley, make waves in China, reshape the global semiconductor landscape, and turn the tide just as the curtain falls on the chip industry! Simply put, it’s the story of a s 0Votes35kRecs99.5kFans
- 19 EN America: The Godfather of Game Development 美利坚：游戏制作教父 Lin Lixin transmigrated to Los Angeles in 1984. That year, North America's gaming hegemon Atari collapsed. That year, the new king, Nintendo, held the Famicom in its hands and was full of ambition. It was the darkest day in video game history, but it was also Lin Lixin's opportunity. From Tetris to Minecraft, from Civilization to Hearts of Iron; that year, Lin Lixin punched Nintendo, kicked Sega, and scared Sony, which had not yet entered the market, into trembling... "On my business card, I am 725Votes49kRecs199.5kFans
- 20 EN The Crown Prince of France 我在法兰西当王太子 Welcome to check out the completed novel, My Lady, Please Stay! [Over 16,000 top-tier subscribers] [An alternate-history power fantasy, with the setting kept as close to the original timeline as possible] I’m in France, just arrived at Versailles, and I’m the crown prince. The only problem is that my father is Louis XVI, and he’ll be executed in a few years... Since neither my father nor the ministers can be relied on, I’ll just have to set France in order myself! First, I’ll make a little money 134Votes125.4kRecs257.2kFans
- 21 My Portable Ming Dynasty Court 我的手提式大明朝廷 Su Ze transmigrates to the Ming dynasty and becomes a second-class jinshi in the second year of Longqing, entering the Hanlin Academy as a junior compiler. The good news: no more grinding through the imperial exams. He has transmigrated straight to the end point of an exam-focused novel, and this year’s cohort is exceptionally distinguished. More than half of the grand secretaries who serve during the Wanli reign will be among these jinshi. The bad news: the second year of Longqing is when court 188Votes122.9kRecs284.4kFans
- 22 EN I See Everything 我看到了一切 An accident gave Jiang Miao a pair of “eyes” that could see through everything. With these eyes, he would observe the essence of all things. But what fate awaited humanity… 0Votes226.1kRecs248.1kFans
- 23 Winds Rise at the End of Ming 风起明末 Hair grows back like chives after being cut; chop off a head like a chicken's, and it will cry out again! Officials need not be feared, but common folk must never be underestimated! In troubled times, people are like ants, and their lives are as worthless as weeds. The tides of the age sweep individual fates along with them. A fate swept up by its time can only rise and fall with the times. The realm is already headed for collapse. The once mighty Ming Empire is now in the twilight of its declin 0Votes154.5kRecs231.3kFans
- 24 Back to 1995 重返1995 In 1995 America, the internet had only just caught fire, cell phones were still brick-sized, and Hollywood films had yet to enter the age of special effects. The arrival of Song Yang would usher in a whole new era. The media marveled that he was the new Howard Hughes. Just as Hughes had once blazed trails and driven countless people wild, Song Yang went even further than Hughes had, changing an entire era. But when asked about the media's verdict, Song Yang simply replied, “I am who I am. Histor 1Votes75.9kRecs166.7kFans
- 25 I’m a Lord in India 我在印度当老爷 From the fertile, talent-rich state of Uttar Pradesh to the city of Mumbai, where demons run amok, this wondrous subcontinent is all the promised land of Ron Suer! 0Votes93.8kRecs305.9kFans
- 26 EN I Cultivate Immortality with a Progress Bar 我修仙有进度条 … Cultivating immortality means shedding the false to find the true, and becoming an immortal! Everyday life while cultivating immortality. More precisely, the daily life of a transmigrator with a cheat. See the world through the eyes of a righteous cultivator, and rise step by step to become the leader of the righteous path. No traditional evil cultivators or troub 4Votes87.1kRecs485kFans
- 27 You Call This Entrepreneurship? 你管这叫创业？ Qin Shaoyan, social media mogul, marketing expert, award-winning game producer, and investment guru, spoke to the press in a fury: “Recently, some people in venture capital and the internet industry have been spreading rumors and slandering me behind my back, calling me a master of empty promises, a master con artist, an expert at passing the buck, and a man with no business ethics…” “I’d like to set the record straight: I’m not a con artist.” “I’ve just been a little flexible with my startup me 0Votes75.2kRecs239.6kFans
- 28 EN Virtual Empire Begins with a Game 虚拟帝国从游戏开始 What's the biggest obstacle standing between a company on the verge of bankruptcy and greatness? “Regulators, obviously! Where do they get so many regulators?” Xu Meng is close to losing it. “What's wrong with dressing female characters sexily? Game characters have the freedom to choose what they wear!” “The war simulator is a safe gaming peripheral. Players breaking bones is purely an accident, and we even include accidental injury insurance.” “The Dream Machine is a game console, an entertainm 2Votes88.6kRecs352.8kFans
- 29 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
- 30 Back to the Prosperous Years to Live an Ordinary Life 回到红火岁月做俗人 A glutton transmigrates to an era of scarce food and clothing, and strives to live as an ordinary person with plenty to eat and drink. A sensible story, with little brutality and characters who have their wits about them. No multiverse, no double transmigration, no System, no farming space, just a portable warehouse that could starve a mouse to death. No copying, pasting, or plagiarism. Entirely handwritten, not produced by a studio. A slow-paced slice-of-life story that reflects the era. Aside 331Votes210.3kRecs418.7kFans
- 31 What's Wrong with One More Person Getting Rich Later? 多我一个后富怎么了 He started out studying medicine but never practiced, then sold TVs, ran into Zhou Huihui, and moved into the sharing economy, where deposits went unrepaid. Next came real estate, where he found some success. At last, he picked a prime property, but never got to top it out… In 2008, Yu Xing woke from a dream to find himself back on the eve of the financial crisis, with his investments in the red. That was the year industry giants took shape and capital awoke. He could only struggle to build his 1.7kVotes1MRecs885.5kFans
- 32 I Get Stronger Every Payday, and I Have a Billion Employees! 发薪就能变强，我有十亿员工！ Reborn in 2010, Chen Yansen awakens the [Kindling Ascension System]. The more employees he has and the higher their wages, the faster his kindling builds up, and the more powerful he becomes! Spirit +10, activating [Photographic Memory]: With a single glance, he can take in all the books and knowledge in the world! Constitution +10, activating [Rhino Hide and Tiger Bones]: Immune to fire and water, impervious to blades and bullets! Years later, Chen Yansen, now presiding over hundreds of mil 15Votes311.9kRecs514.9kFans
- 33 EN Film and TV Worlds: Starting from Drug God 影视世界从药神开始 An ordinary person, living one extraordinary life after another... ,,,, Aiming for urban stories, no cultivation. Dying to Survive, Infernal Affairs, Nothing But Thirty, The Year We Chased the Wind, The Grandmaster, Ode to Joy, Feather Flies to the Sky, New World, Beijing Love Story, Brotherhood of Blades, Spring Breeze Is No Match for You, The Greed of Man, All Is Well, Malena, Let’s Get Married, In the Name of the People, Chasing the Dragon, A Lifelong Journey, Water Margin, So Young, The Gold 205Votes416kRecs509.6kFans
- 34 My Investment Era 我的投资时代 As Xia Jingxing lay dying, he remembered the young man who had set off for a foreign land. Back then, he had thought: If I could live those years over, I would never squander the turbulent, opportunity-filled twenty years that followed. What you never forget will eventually echo back. Returned to the age of eighteen, he began to sing: I'm still the same boy I used to be... PS: The author has already completed a two-million-character novel, Winning the New Fin 0Votes216.3kRecs410kFans
- 35 Rising to Power, Starting in Chinatown 飞扬跋扈，从唐人街开始 At the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese laborers in America had fallen to the status of third-class people. Discrimination against and conflicts with Chinese laborers grew increasingly fierce, and attacks became more frequent. In San Francisco's Chinatown, opium dens and gambling houses stood everywhere, while gangs and associations made the area a chaotic mix of all kinds of people. Until one day, Chen Zhengwei stepped off a ship, his face radiant with a brilliant smile. “I like the smell 9Votes357.9kRecs643.4kFans
- 36 EN Wizard: Starting with Synthetic Gems 巫师：从合成宝石开始 [White Wizard Opening] [Complete Demon Plant System] Explore the unknown, pursue the truth, transcend life and death, and control people's hearts: that is what it means to be a wizard. In this wizarding world, where resources are desperately needed, transmigrator Locke Augustine relies on his golden finger, a synthesis cube, to continually transform low-grade materials into high-grade ones. He sets out to explore every path toward the truth, including breeding, potion-making, and alchemy, develo 1.8kVotes229.1kRecs660.5kFans
- 37 Reborn in 2008: Diagnosed as a Medical Authority 重生08，我被确诊为医学泰斗 [A career-focused novel with one heroine, averaging 30,000 paid subscriptions] Reborn in 2008, Jiang He holds medical technology twenty years ahead of its time. That year, the medical community was still helpless against the King of Cancer. Minimally invasive surgery was still considered off-limits in oncology, while genetic screening remained a barren wasteland... From revolutionizing the Whipple procedure and stunning the medical world to developing broad-spectrum anticancer drugs ahead of sch 490Votes143.7kRecs771.2kFans
- 38 The White-Robed Chancellor 白衣卿相 Clad in white, he entered Bianliang; half a lifetime as a minister, and he shaped the realm. 3.9kVotes302kRecs573.4kFans
- 39 The Struggle for the Throne in the Jiajing Era 夺嫡在嘉靖朝 In the twenty-eighth year of the Jiajing reign of the Great Ming, the Crown Prince died, leaving the succession vacant. The struggle between Prince Yu and Prince Jing would determine countless lives, fortunes, and reputations. On one side stood Zhu Zaiji, Prince Yu, first in line by age. Backed by the court’s upright officials and invoking ancestral precedent, he was regarded by the scholarly world as the obvious choice for Crown Prince. On the other stood Zhu Zaizhen, Prince Jing. With Grand Se 887Votes132.3kRecs446.7kFans
- 40 Looking North at the Rivers and Mountains 北望江山 A story about a modern person struggling to survive in the late Yuan dynasty, in every sense of the word. 6.2kVotes745.2kRecs592.5kFans
- 41 EN Simultaneous Transmigration: Inheriting the Legacies of Myriad Worlds 同时穿越：继承万界遗产 A man in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, transmigrating simultaneously across the Myriad Worlds. Talents and comprehension merge, and combat power stacks without limit. With five times the strength of someone at the same level, you say I'm just an ordinary mortal? I won't take issue with that. But when my strength reaches ten thousand times that of someone at the same level, what will you call me? All my selves across the Myriad Worlds, lend me your power! (Includes worlds from novels, anime 2.9kVotes425.4kRecs783.7kFans
- 42 When Pride Still Mattered 当骄傲仍然重要时 Some people exist proudly, and some struggle proudly. Some compete proudly, and some fail proudly. But few can walk away with pride. By the time you finish reading this, congratulations: you’ve already seen the lives of many players. This passage took shape in Stephen Curry’s words after his 2021 defeat: “Nobody wants to face us next season.” It was Tim Duncan, certain before the 2014 Finals began that they wouldn’t mess it up. It was Kobe Bryant promising at Old Man Buss’s memorial to get the L 5Votes234.7kRecs386.1kFans
- 43 I Became a Literary Giant in Russia 我在俄国当文豪 (The first foreign-literary-giant novel on Qidian to average over 10,000 monthly subscriptions) Many years later, when Nabokov was teaching Russian literature in America, this was how he did it. In a darkened room, he first switched on a lamp in the corner and said, “Pushkin was the first beacon of Russian literature.” Then he switched on a lamp in the middle of the room and said, “This is Gogol.” He turned on another lamp and declared, “This is Chekhov.” Then he strode to the window, yanked ope 734Votes169.4kRecs430.8kFans
- 44 Reborn to Rule the Internet 重生之网络争霸 Reborn in 2001. The timing is a little awkward. Tencent has been founded, Alibaba has appeared, and Baidu is already making money... So what's the point of being reborn? No worries. Since being reborn is useless, I'll come back and live off a woman instead. But Chen Yu, who only wanted to be a kept man, accidentally ended up unifying the internet. From the author of the completed works Reborn: I Am a Book Maniac, with over 40,000 subscriptions, and I Am an All-Round Superstar, with over 20,000 s 2Votes291.7kRecs218.7kFans
- 45 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
- 46 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
- 47 The Great Merchants of the World 天下豪商 During the Yuanyou era of the Great Song, the painter Wu Hao arrived in the prosperous realm of the Zhao dynasty. As he walked the bustling streets of Bianliang, as vivid as a scene from Along the River During the Qingming Festival, Wu Hao thought of what would happen 29 years later: the Jurchen cavalry would sweep south and utterly destroy this flourishing age, ablaze with prosperity. But what could an ordinary commoner do to save a collapsing empire, even if he knew disaster was coming? Wu 0Votes456.4kRecs111.6kFans
- 48 EN Restarting Life 重启人生 When life hits the restart button, it seems like everything will finally go smoothly... Yeah, right! If only I'd been reborn after the college entrance exams. Even going back to my first year of high school would have been fine. What's with being reborn in my senior year? And what the heck, I'm reborn right in the exam room. Guys, how do I solve this math problem? Urgent, waiting for answers online! (Also known as Reborn, So Who Needs Exams? and Reborn, and the Author Still Can't Come Up wi 30Votes981.4kRecs1.3MFans
- 49 EN Late Bloomer in the Immortal Cultivation World 我在修仙界大器晚成 Mountains and rivers change, and the world grows old. Wei Tu transmigrated to a world of immortals and awakened the Destiny Trait [Late Bloomer]. [Destiny Trait: Late Bloomer.] [Attribute: Persevere without faltering, and you are sure to succeed.] Seeing this Destiny Trait, Wei Tu, whose rough edges had long been worn away, finally felt hope kindle in his heart. But he still didn't know whether he could rise from humble beginnings to become an immortal patriarch. All he could do was seize the pr 82Votes5.5MRecs1.3MFans
- 50 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
