Novels like Chinese Showbiz 1995
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Chinese Showbiz 1995, best match first.
- 1 Literary Giant 1879: Lone in France 文豪1879：独行法兰西 Victor Hugo: “You all call me ‘the conscience of France,’ but right now it’s beating in Lionel’s chest!” Émile Zola: “‘Naturalism’ or ‘Realism’? No, only Lionel’s ‘Modernism’ belongs to the twentieth century!” Gustave Flaubert: “Maupassant is my finest student. Lionel is my kindred spirit.” Guy de Maupassant: “Lionel’s only flaw is that he hasn’t contracted the noble, virile disease of syphilis.” Anton Chekhov: “What else do we need in this life besides sunshine, air, water, and laughter? Why, L 1.1kVotes127.1kRecs337.9kFans
- 2 Real History Simulation Game 真实历史模拟游戏 Countless worlds, traversing the heavens! While billions of players struggle to survive within the rules of the game, you stand above the dimensions, surveying the whole board. You arrive in 1990. While everyone else heads south to strike it rich or works as a middleman, you're the only one looking overseas, using kvass to pry open the Soviet Union's aircraft orders. (The Soviet collapse arc is complete.) The Qing dynasty sinks into decline, and colonial wars erupt. While players scramble to pic 119Votes88.9kRecs325.4kFans
- 3 EN Rebirth in 1981: Hunting and Fishing in the Northwest 重生八一渔猎西北 Li Long, carrying many regrets from his previous life, was reborn in 1981. That year, the land hadn't yet been divided among the households. He was still unmarried, his older brother hadn't died in a fall because of him, his sister-in-law didn't yet despise him, and his nephew and niece were growing up healthy. The root cause of all the troubles that would plague the future hadn't happened yet. There was still 96Votes552.9kRecs1.6MFans
- 4 Myriad Worlds: Starting with a Reimagined Laughing in the Wind 诸天：从魔改笑傲江湖开始 “Huashan is not the Huashan of yesterday, and the martial world is not the martial world of yesterday.” “If I hadn't come, Huashan would have declined. I came, and Huashan still declined. Didn't I come for nothing?” “The world is only so big, so let's go see other worlds.” (Worlds wreaked havoc in so far: Xiao Ao, Tian Long, Douluo) 0Votes2.7kRecs31kFans
- 5 EN Me, a Best Actor! 我，影帝！ The road to stardom for a PE teacher! There’s absolutely no way I’m going into adult entertainment. Not in this lifetime! Shen Qi loses his job as a PE teacher and refuses to enter the industry, only to end up as an extra in Hengdian. He wants nothing more than to earn money while keeping his clothes on! By chance, he gets his hands on a “spellbook.” He can record the “skills” he sees in the spellbook, then use them whenever he needs to. The spellbook contains another world, where he can find cl 1.9kVotes158.3kRecs307kFans
- 6 EN Deity Investigation Report 神明调查报告 A kidnapping from the past, thirteen phantoms standing tall in an ancient castle A life caught in a cycle of reversals, and a catastrophe unleashed by the gods in retaliation against humanity! Reason is fragile in this world. Humanity needs to be handled with care. "A real investigator isn't judged by how well they handle the bizarre, but by how well they write their reports!" 23Votes269.7kRecs1.2MFans
- 7 My Restaurant Connects to the Northern Song Dynasty 我的饭馆通北宋 “I am Su Shi. My younger brother and I have come from Meizhou to sit the imperial examinations. We miss the flavors of home. Do you serve Sichuan cuisine?” “We do! This is a Sichuan restaurant!” Ever since Wu Ming opened the door to the year 1056, he never had to worry about his restaurant’s business again. “The Wu Restaurant south of the prefecture is the finest tavern in the capital, with well over a thousand patrons a day. Every customer, whoever they may be, must take a number before ent 10Votes129.3kRecs293.1kFans
- 8 Lord of Morning Mist 晨雾领主 From the morning mist hanging over the city to the eerie glow along the pipes of the underworld, the world has entered a brand-new era. The old gods faded away with the disappearance of the farms, and new faiths arose among the boundless cities. In a knightly family that had enjoyed a century of glory, a restless boy named Lao En appeared, determined to take an unconventional path. Dragon girls, trolls, merfolk, and ratfolk: an adventure to protect his home and childhood sweetheart is about to b 0Votes26.6kRecs95Fans
- 9 The Star-Exploring Saga of the Lord of Morning Mist 晨雾领主之拓星篇 From the gilded steam flowing between the star tracks to the ancient god runes shimmering in the cracks of the void, the world has reached the edge of the stars. The shadows of the old gods churn in the depths of the star sea, while new journeys unfold beyond the star gates where steam and magic intertwine. Lao En Mei Luo Si, who once stirred up trouble amid the morning mist and the underworld, now stands atop the giant tree of the Wei Lun Plane, heading toward infinite possibilities beyond the 0Votes536Recs0Fans
- 10 EN Shrouding the Heavens: Beginning Dao Proving from the Ancient Era 遮天：从太古证道开始 Chen Zhao transmigrated to the Primordial Era of Shrouding the Heavens, an age when the Primordial Myriad Races were rising. With the defiant Chaos Body, he sought to prove the Dao, rose to power, and shook the Primordial Era. I’m in Shrouding the Heavens, and I’ve just survived a tribulation. The Carefree Heavenly Venerate has reappeared and wants to possess me and take my place. Help! 0Votes93.5kRecs335.3kFans
- 11 Dream of the Red Chamber: Daiyu and I Swapped Bodies 红楼：我和黛玉互穿了 [Male-Oriented Novel] [Multiple Heroines] [A Dream of the Red Chamber] After Li Chen, the second young master of the Marquis's household, awakened memories of his past life, he somehow switched bodies with Lin Daiyu. From then on, Li Chen played Lin Daiyu, stirring up trouble and enjoying life in the Rongguo Mansion, while Lin Daiyu had no choice but to play him, throwing herself into her studies and pursuing an official career. After years of entanglement and switching bodies, Li Chen rose stea 478Votes175.6kRecs374.1kFans
- 12 EN Island of Sin and Punishment 罪狱岛 In the world after a nuclear war, twenty giant corporations seized control and established a global government. They govern through AI and pass judgment on everything. Gao Xin only wanted to live out a peaceful life, but he inexplicably became a scapegoat for the powerful. Then, unable to pay the cost of his imprisonment, he was sentenced to ten years of exile on Sin Island! On this island, there are no laws and no restraints. The only order comes from the many official game arenas established b 0Votes313.9kRecs435.2kFans
- 13 The Road to Prosperity in a Mountain Village, Beginning with Returning Home in Critical Condition 山村致富路，从病危归乡开始 Ye Changsheng is on the brink of death. He never dreamed that he would awaken a miraculous “Agricultural Immortal System.” Starting as a down-and-out man at the lowest point in his life, he gradually rises to become the world’s foremost agricultural tycoon. Changsheng Agriculture: Our mission is to create miracles! 0Votes845Recs93Fans
- 14 EN This Taoist Is Going to College! 贫道要考大学 Also known as: The Young Daoist Chen Wants to Go to College Chen Shi'an has lived on the mountain for eighteen years. The text he knows best by heart is the Dao De Jing, and the ritual he performs most skillfully is the rite for sending off the dead. It was not until the day his master breathed his last that he learned the truth: in this day and age, funeral rites must be registered, and inheriting a Daoist temple requires a diploma! What is a dropout who slipped through nine years of compulsory 76Votes381.2kRecs904.1kFans
- 15 EN Before Ascending to Godhood, Be a Good Lord 登神之前，做个好领主 “With the Twin Suns above us and three moons sharing the sky, the greatness of the human empire began with the ascension of the Divine Emperor. For a thousand years, the human empire has driven out orcs, cowed elves, opened up the stars, and created legends. This is the greatest age in human history!” Listening to the scholar's praise, Lante asked, “Let me ask you something. If our human empire is so great, why is a baron's family like ours being chased around by savages?” “Great power belongs t 0Votes4.5MRecs185.5kFans
- 16 Becoming a Prince in the Late Northern Song 在北宋末年当皇子 In the third year of Xuanhe, Northern Song, the Jingkang Incident is just around the corner. Zhao Pu opens his eyes to find he has become the thirteenth son of Emperor Huizong, and the younger brother of Emperor Qinzong and Emperor Gaozong! So Zhao Pu, the rebellious son of the Zhao family, pioneer of Great Song reform, and thirteenth prince, a living banner of resistance against the Jin, decides to save Great Song in an unconventional way... 0Votes116.3kRecs21kFans
- 17 Generation Z Artist Z世代艺术家 From Taking Down Public Intellectuals to Conquering the Entertainment Industry A Gen Z online troll born in 2005 is reborn in 1998. He has no rose-tinted view of this era, and it leaves him feeling utterly suffocated. The crude picture quality of TV and films, the eye-searing special effects, costumes like scraps of cloth, makeup that looks like a joke, and a filming philosophy of “good enough is good enough”... Men and women, directors and producers, every last one of them is garbage. The young 1.5kVotes1.3MRecs870.9kFans
- 18 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
- 19 EN The God Mimic 神的模仿犯 Twelve men and women of different backgrounds are invited into a new world. Here, they must not only decide how to live by voting on proposals, but also keep taking part in deadly games to extend the time on their visas. And the people designing these games of life and death are actually among them. 2.1kVotes523.9kRecs1.4MFans
- 20 EN My Avatar is Becoming the Final Boss 我的化身正在成为最终BOSS After living an utterly ordinary life for more than a decade, one night Ji Minghuan awakened a supernatural ability that let him “create game characters” in the real world. Each character came with a unique main quest and a unique skill-tree System. From then on, he couldn't stop. He kept creating new game characters in the real world, developing skill trees, and building character systems... The more famous a character became, the stronger it grew, so he began causing a huge commotion, doing wh 240Votes394.9kRecs1.7MFans
- 21 Technological Cultivation: Leading Humanity Out into the Stars 科技修行：带领人族杀出星际 A cliched story about someone who awakens with the weakest talent, trains step by step to the highest level, and saves Earth and the universe. 0Votes111.2kRecs29kFans
- 22 EN 1979: The Golden Age 1979黄金时代 This is still a somewhat nostalgic story, hmm… 8.7kVotes3.7MRecs2.5MFans
- 23 EN Lord of Pro 普罗之主 His name is Li Banfeng. Feng as in mountain peak, not as in going crazy. His doctor has told him he isn’t insane. To save a friend’s life, he went to Platform 96, boarded Steam Train 1160, and arrived in Puluo Province, where the world had been stuck in the age of steam. He met a confidante in an old gramophone, peerless beauties on calendar posters, a swaying lady in an antique clock, and a worldly master in a wine gourd. Here, food cultivators grow stronger the more they eat, smoking cultivato 145Votes729.7kRecs2MFans
- 24 Actors Don’t Get Vacations 演员没有假期 This world is strong in the East and weak in the West. Chinese culture dominates the globe. Everyone in the world is learning Chinese. China's Golden Bull Awards are the most influential film awards in the world. For singers everywhere, topping China's music charts is the ultimate goal of a lifetime. The most fashionable fashion weeks, the richest sporting culture, the most beautiful scenery, and the tastiest food... it's all here. Guan Chen spent his previous life running down a one-way roa 11Votes448.7kRecs467.7kFans
- 25 Reshaping the Millennium Era 重塑千禧年代 At the turn of the millennium, officials were chanting slogans about GDP, bosses took pride in bringing their secretaries along, and rough-and-ready entrepreneurs fought with blades flashing amid the waves of the times. Fang Zhuo returns to the year 2000. Ten years later, a group of venture capitalists and private equity firms storm the company headquarters, demanding an answer from a stunned Fang Zhuo: “Mr. Fang, all your other projects have gone public. When on earth will this first one li 47Votes867.3kRecs825.4kFans
- 26 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 27 Full Time Artist 全职艺术家 “Music, film, painting, calligraphy, sculpture, literature...” “You know all of that?” “I know a little about each.” “You mean you can do a bit of everything?” “More like a billion bits of everything.” Armed with a System, he conquers the world through art and becomes the uncrowned king revered by people from every walk of life. 40Votes2.5MRecs2.2MFans
- 28 My Father Is Emperor Gaozu of Han 家父汉高祖 The new book The Court Does Not Move South is now being serialized. Your support is appreciated! A great empire has just been born, and a new era is about to begin. Liu Chang once wondered whether he should compete for the throne and lead this brand-new empire himself. But then he looked at the people around him: Liu Bang, Empress Lu, Liu Ying, Liu Heng... Well, isn’t it better to stay alive? And so Liu Chang earned himself the title of the most shameful transmigrator and settled into 160Votes1.1MRecs3.9MFans
- 29 Starting in 1983 从1983开始 A story with a touch of nostalgia. The old reader group is full. 14Votes4.3MRecs1.1MFans
- 30 The King's Avatar 全职高手 The top expert in the online game Glory, hailed as a textbook-level player, was driven out by his club for various reasons. After leaving the professional scene, he took refuge in an Internet cafe and became a lowly manager. However, with ten years of gaming experience, he returned to the game in Glory's newly opened Tenth District. Carrying memories of the past and an unfinished homemade weapon, he began his journey back to the summit. 1kVotes7MRecs5MFans
- 31 EN My House of Horrors 我有一座冒险屋 [A reprint of the simplified Chinese edition of this book will soon be published by Motie Publishing House] Chen Ge inherited an adventure house left behind by his missing parents. Business was dismal, until a phone he stumbled upon while tidying the place changed everything. Complete the different-difficulty tasks assigned by the phone each day, and the adventure house can be repaired or even expanded! So Chen Ge began exploring forbidden zones across the country to gather material, incorporati 646Votes7MRecs5.1MFans
- 32 EN The Legendary Mechanic 超神机械师 Han Xiao, a veteran power-leveling player in Stellar Sea, was thrown into the transmigration crowd by a mysterious force from the East, or rather, from a certain otaku. With a player interface in tow, he became an NPC and returned to the days before Stellar Sea's open beta. He resolutely chose the highest-difficulty class: Mechanic. Warships sail in formation across the stars, star-powered mechs twist through the heavens like dragons, psychic cannons lay waste to worlds, and an endless mechanica 434Votes9.2MRecs5.5MFans
- 33 EN Lord of Mysteries 诡秘之主 Amid the tide of steam and machinery, who can reach the extraordinary? In the fog of history and darkness, who is whispering? I awoke from the mysteries and opened my eyes to see this world: Guns, cannons, battleships, airships, difference engines; potions, divination, curses, the Hanged Man, Sealed Artifacts... Light still shines, and the mysterious has never left. This is the legend of th 11kVotes37.4MRecs37.6MFans
