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- The Spark of Humanity 人间星火 Li Xinghuo, a college student who grew up in the countryside, found her direction in life with the help of a volunteer teacher and went to Yunnan to teach. During her time there, she worked diligently and conscientiously, treating her students like her own children and educating many outstanding students. But she saw that many girls were treated unfairly, which strengthened her resolve to establish a university for women. Her idea was met with ridicule and merciless opposition, but after overcom 20MClicks25Favorites3Recs
- New Lyrics of Liangzhou 凉州新词 Amid the tide of reform and opening up, Wang Qiming refuses to waste away in a stagnant state-owned factory. He resolutely takes the initiative to leave his job and start a business, but his girlfriend Bai Ling breaks up with him in public over it. At the darkest moment of his life, Wang Qiming meets Qiao Qian, a beautiful and gentle young woman from the south. She encourages him to establish a "Reemployment Market" and lead his former coworkers in starting businesses together. But Wang Qiming n 10MClicks14Favorites0Recs
- Growing Up in the Spring Breeze 长在春风里 In 2002, during the summer when they left university and entered the working world, Lu Yuan and his best friends watched the final of the Korea-Japan World Cup, drank every last beer on the rooftop, and said goodbye to the youth they had left behind. Overnight, it seemed they had all grown up... This is one person's story. It is also the story of a group of people. More than that, it is the story of an era. It is the story shared by a generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, raised in the gentle 963.7kClicks1.3kFavorites19.8kRecs
- Elegance in 1978 风华1978 Lu Jia woke beneath the great locust tree at the entrance to the village, and found himself back before the Reform and Opening Up, on an afternoon when the sun blazed like fire. Can't get rich and reach the pinnacle of life without a System and a golden finger? Not a chance! Come on, let's steal Zhao Laosan's luck first! Steve Jobs: I feel like I've spent my whole life living in Lu Jia's shadow. Warren Buffett: Come here, buddy, give me a hug! Lu Jia: Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not picking on 37.7kClicks130Favorites479Recs
- The Soaring Years 飞扬的年代 In an age of upheaval, an insignificant little person struggles with all his might amid the surging tides, just to bring forth a fleeting spray of foam... Hardship has never been an excuse for failing to find happiness. It is losing one's spiritual pursuits that gives rise to countless reasons for pain. In that accustomed age of scarcity, even the slightest improvement made people like tender shoots breaking through the soil, striving to grow toward the sun... 1.6kClicks1Favorites1Recs
- Seventies Romance 七0风月季 "The Seasons of Love in the 1970s" is the first novel to portray the changing rural life of China during the early years of reform and opening up. Centered on the life of Ouyang Mengying and her family, the story shows how reform and opening up brought immense changes to the countryside through the struggles and sacrifices of the family members. Beginning in 1978 and told from Ouyang Mengying's perspective, it follows her and her family as they search for hope amid poverty and hold fast to their 1.4kClicks4Favorites0Recs
