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Books by Star and Moon's Dad
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From the Qidian books we index, matched on the author's name.
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Retiring to Latin Village 归隐拉丁村
In life, if you don't suffer physically, you'll suffer mentally. Tired of the cutthroat grind of city work, the protagonist chooses to escape his monotonous day-to-day routine and heads to the remote village of Latin, where he begins a life of seclusion.
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Chronicles of Dan Ash 丹灰记
The Ashes of the Cinnabar is a realist epic rooted in the borderlands of western Yunnan during the late Ming and early Qing. After the fall of the Southern Ming, the orphaned A Nan and Zhu Cixuan, the last surviving scion of the imperial house, abandon hopes of restoring the dynasty and instead protect the spark of civilization through ordinary lives. They unite people of six ethnic groups, Han, Bai, Yi, Dai, Kachin, and Shan, and quietly weave a classic embodying ritual and music, loyalty and v
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The Tale of A Luo, the Tang Dynasty's Greatest Foreign Merchant 大唐第一胡商阿罗传
The Sogdian youth A Luo arrives in Chang'an with nothing but himself. No connections, no powerful backers, only business savvy and ambition! He hides incense in dung to cheat customs duties, and skins a dead horse to make a fortune; He pioneers flying cash to connect the world, outwits rebels, and takes control of the salt and iron trades. He is the wildest lone wolf in the Western Market, and the last Merchant Sage of a chaotic age. When the flames of the An Lushan Rebellion consume the empire'
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Crisis at the Night Banquet: Painted Bones 夜宴危机：画骨
Near the end of the Southern Tang dynasty, as the state teetered on the brink of collapse, Gu Hongzhong, a court painter, received a secret order from the last ruler, Li Yu: sneak into the mansion of the powerful official Han Xizai at night and uncover the truth behind rumors of rebellion. Thus began a life-or-death mission. He had to dance on the edge of a blade, recording with his eyes every subtle expression and undercurrent among the 49 people at the banquet. When Gu Hongzhong turned that th
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Misty Rain Over the Sui Dynasty: A Lone Minister's Grand Scheme 烟雨大隋：孤臣阳谋
He was the Sui dynasty’s greatest contributor, a true prime minister who held the reins of power during the Kaihuang era. In his youth, he served Emperor Wen, quelling rebellions and establishing laws, full of ambition and confidence. In middle age, he rose to the highest ranks, recommending famous generals and enriching the state, basking in boundless glory. But then Dugu died, and Yang Guang ascended the throne. Looking at that tyrant, so eager for grand achievements, Gao Ying knew the Sui dyn
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Ge Chuntian's Top-Secret Mission 葛春天的绝密任务
In Guangzhou in 1911, Ge Chuntian, a new clerk at the Guangzhou branch of the HSBC, assumes the alias Zhang Ziheng. He has three months to survive at the bank, and just 72 hours before the revolution begins to exploit a financial loophole and spirit away 500,000 taels of silver to secretly fund the Huanghuagang Uprising. Facing meticulous bank audits and deadly trials, he stages one hair-raising silent espionage operation after another. Once the mission is complete, he resumes his real name and
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The Confucian Spirit of Hexi 河西儒风
Amid the chaos of the Five Dynasties, the Central Plains fell into ruin. The Hexi Corridor, isolated on the frontier, became the last backup of Chinese civilization. This is no power fantasy of iron cavalry sweeping across the land. It is a story of perseverance beneath the vast desert sky. A headmaster teaches at Gui Ren Academy for sixty years, keeping the flame alive amid the divide between Han and Hu peoples, and leaving future generations an enduring spark of civilization and a wealth of cl
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A Mongol Minister with a Han Heart: The Legendary Story of the Yuan Imperial Tutor 蒙臣汉心：大元帝师的传奇故事
The northern desert, lashed by wind and snow. Blades and axes at his throat. At death’s door, the Han Confucian Yao Shu wagered on the stars and won a moment of mercy from Kublai, the dragon of the grasslands. From then on, he would not be a slave of a fallen kingdom. He vowed to become a ferryman for Chinese civilization. From the thunderous intrigues of Kublai’s princely court to farming settlements south of the desert, he used double-entry bookkeeping to expose corruption and waterworks plans
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Children of the Jialing River 嘉陵江畔的孩子们
The waves of the Jialing River have battered the backbone of northeastern Sichuan, while the old locust tree by the river in Qingshi Village has borne witness to forty years. Here, three generations of the Shi family have used bamboo strips as their brush, striving generation after generation to change the fate of themselves and their village. The old ancestral hall, the threshing ground, the sweet fragrance of mugwort rice cakes, the dialect of northeastern Sichuan and the curling smoke from co
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Love Along the Dujiangyan: A Dream of Peace 情满都江堰：归梦安澜
This is an age-old legend belonging to Dujiangyan, and an epic romance spanning time and space across the Taiwan Strait. From Chengdu in the pre-Qin era to modern-day Chengdu, this is more than a novel. It is an Anlan Suspension Bridge built of words, connecting the past and present as well as both sides of the Taiwan Strait. What remains unchanged through the ages is a deep love for China.
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Ge Chuntian's Top-Secret Mission 2 葛春天的绝密任务2
Ge Chuntian, a financial prodigy, was assigned by the organization to infiltrate the Central Bank of the Kuomintang as an underground Party member. He secretly gathered and passed on all kinds of strategic financial intelligence for the Party, making outstanding contributions to national liberation, the founding of New China, and the defense of the newly established People’s government.
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The Prospector's Adventures 探矿者奇遇记
Want to know how geology opens the heart of the Earth? Curious about the secrets of symbiosis hidden deep within the mines? Follow the protagonist across five continents and discover why children’s voices can be heard reading beneath dinosaur fossils in Africa’s copper-and-cobalt mountains. Geologist Jiang Shan has spent sixty years wielding his hammer. From carving through rock fissures in southwest China to weave a “green armor,” to watching fluorescent moss swim like snake shadows around Thai
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