Siheyuan: The Great Age of Business in the 1980s

Courtyard novel, entrepreneurship, urban slice of life.

Starting in the 1980s, this courtyard novel paints a sweeping picture of an era when everyone went into business!

Getting rich, making a fortune, earning money, and starting a business became everyone's pursuit!

Everyone in the courtyard goes into business, each making their way in their own fashion!

Some get it right, others get it wrong. Character determines destiny!

In the 1980s, people set up stalls selling big bowls of tea, resold Rubik's Cubes and digital watches, traded jeans and T-shirts, and started small!

They took over restaurants, hotels, and factories. Those willing to take a chance could make money...

Some used unconventional methods to trade small goods across the border, while others hauled heavy loads to the land of the great bear. Fortune favors the bold!

They resold antiques, cassette tapes, tape recorders, old color TVs, and old VCRs, operating in the gray areas...

In the 1990s, people opened video arcades, amusement halls, and dance halls, or drove taxis.

They made money with no capital, traded coal, coke, and iron, and resold government permits, making a fortune overnight...

They built cold-storage facilities and traded fruit and vegetables, taking control of market resources...

They traded treasury bonds, opened futures companies, played the stock market, and snapped up internet domain names, risking little for huge gains! A hundredfold return on investment!