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Folded Mirror: A Macau Ballad Across Fifty Years 濠镜折叠：澳门五十年叙事曲
“I spent five years interviewing 142 people from Macau, from the former governor’s secretary to migrant domestic workers. This isn’t a historical novel. It’s history itself: the tears, laughter, and dignity that were never recorded in official archives. Macau is tiny, small enough for a single typhoon to cover the whole city. And yet it is vast enough to hold all of China’s past, present, and future. Open this book, and you’ll feel the heartbeat of an island.” Half a century of turbulent tides,
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Macau Storm: 300 Years of Maritime Rivalry 澳门风云--海上争霸300年
When royal orders from Lisbon send ships through the storms beyond the Cape of Good Hope, and the Ming maritime ban collides with Portuguese warships, the world is being reshaped by towering waves! Portugal tears apart the Arab maritime network, the Dutch East India Company watches hungrily, and England arrives late but makes no secret of its ambitions... Yet the eye of this storm lies in Haojing Bay, on the southern edge of the South China Sea!
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Zheng the Player 海王郑
The Sea King Zheng: This novel will rewrite everything you imagine about China’s maritime history! When the label of “national hero” is stripped from the figure in your textbook, you’ll see a complex soul burning through his life in the rift between Eastern and Western civilizations. The seventeenth century, the Age of Exploration in the East. At the edge of the map lies a battleground of power and civilization. A fleet flying the Zheng banner cuts through the waves, sailing toward the heart of
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The Seven Luminaries of Liuli 琉璃七政仪
In the twenty-ninth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming dynasty, Matteo Ricci presented an automaton clock to the Forbidden City. That era-defining chime did more than tell the time: it signaled the beginning of a vast “civilizational pact.” Four hundred years later, Lu Jianwei, a top antiques restorer at the Palace Museum, discovers that the Western clocks in the museum’s collection have all begun behaving strangely. At the same time, Lin Yilan, a Macanese guardian of cultural heritage with mix
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The Dragon's Roar, the Tiger's Cry, and the Cross 龙吟虎啸十字架
When Kangxi observed a solar eclipse through a Western telescope, he could never have imagined that a century later, British warships would sail in from that direction. When Lin Zexu destroyed the opium at Humen, he could never have imagined that Hong Kong would be separated from the motherland for 155 years. They did not know what the future held, but we can look back on the past. Three centuries of upheaval, the fortunes and misfortunes of three great families From Kangxi to New China, from Ma
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