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- A Floating World in a County Town 县城浮世 County Town in a Fleeting World This is a panoramic realist ensemble novel focused on a small city in central China today. Using an ordinary county town by rivers and lakes as its microcosm, it portrays the fortunes and desperate straits of ordinary people in countless small cities. Under the tides of the times, the county town has long been in structural decline: industrial parks lie abandoned, manufacturing retreats, construction grinds to a halt, and unfinished apartment blocks stand as monum 0Tickets20Clicks2Favorites
- Reincarnation in a Dong Village 轮回侗寨 The Dong Village of Reincarnation Introduction Deep in the mountains where Hunan, Guangxi, and Guizhou meet lies a Dong village with the strangest rural secrets in the country. In this settlement of fewer than ten thousand people, more than a hundred villagers claim to remember their previous lives in full. It is known far and wide as the village of reincarnated people. Children can speak as soon as they learn to talk, naming their past lives, how they died, their old homes, and the people they 0Tickets11Clicks1Favorites
- The Third Generation Shore 三代岸 The Three Generations of the Lin Family A long realist novel about immigration, centered on the notorious curse of inheritance across three generations in North America's Chinese community. It follows the fortunes of the Lin family, immigrants from Fujian, over more than sixty years. In the 1960s, Lin Jingyuan traveled to California to make his way in the world. With his strong technical skills, he seized the opportunities created by Silicon Valley's growth, painstakingly built a parts manufactu 0Tickets4Clicks0Favorites
- Above the Spine 脊背之上 Synopsis of the novella Above the Back Based on true events by the shores of Poyang Lake in Duchang County, Jiangxi, this novella tells the story of Zhang Zhifang, a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Diagnosed with the incurable disease in early childhood, he suffers from steadily worsening leg strength and completely loses the ability to walk on his own in fourth grade. Forced by their financial circumstances to work far from home, his parents leave his elderly grandfather, Zhang Songbai, t 0Tickets3Clicks0Favorites
- The Legend of Mount Lu 庐山传 Introduction to The Tale of Mount Lu Inspired by the mountain-biography format of The Tale of Mount Longquan, The Tale of Mount Lu is a sweeping work of literary nonfiction about the landscapes and cultural heritage of Mount Kuanglu. It weaves together the mountain's own account and the perspective of an on-foot journey, spanning geological change, a thousand years of cultural history, and the region's modern landscape. The book is divided into five volumes, covering the main peak of Hanyang, t 0Tickets3Clicks0Favorites
- Still Waters Through the Ages: The Story of Jiang Wanli 止水千秋：江万里传 Still Waters Through the Ages: The Story of Jiang Wanli This sweeping historical novel of the Southern Song Dynasty runs nearly 400,000 words. Centered on the life of Jiang Wanli, a great scholar and national hero of the late Southern Song, it follows the broad outline of official history while weaving in vivid fictional details, supporting characters, and tales of local life to recreate the turbulent years of a dynasty’s end and the undying spirit of its loyal souls. The story begins in the f 0Tickets3Clicks0Favorites
- The Fireside Bistro 岸火小馆 Synopsis of The Little Restaurant by the Riverbank Gui Shouye, a chef from Jiangxi, travels all the way to Rowland Heights, Los Angeles, and takes over a shabby Chinese restaurant. He wants little: to earn money with his cooking, pay off his debts, save enough, and return to his hometown. He sets himself one rule: make a living at the stove, and stay out of his customers' business. As the restaurant grows lively, all kinds of people from the neighborhood gather there, while undercurrents quiet 0Tickets3Clicks0Favorites
- Ice and Flame: The Story of Cai Lei 冰焰：蔡磊传 Cai Lei: A Profile An alumnus of the Central University of Finance and Economics, Cai Lei is a well-known Chinese tax and finance expert, a pioneer of electronic invoices, and a leading advocate for people with rare diseases. He spent half his life in the business world. A diligent student from a young age, he built a career serving in tax agencies and working at Samsung and Vanke before joining JD.com in his prime. With extraordinary perseverance and professional resolve, he brought China's fir 0Tickets3Clicks0Favorites
- A Porcelain Letter from Poyang Lake 鄱湖瓷信 Synopsis of The Porcelain Letter of Poyang Lake In the thirty-first year of the Republic, a severe drought struck northern Jiangxi, and not a single crop was harvested in Fenghuang Township, Duchang. Young artisan Jiang Yanzhou left his home and braved the treacherous waters near Laoye Temple to seek a living in Jingdezhen. Before leaving, he pledged himself to Ding Wanxiu, a girl who lived by the lake, and promised to return and marry her. As a token, he gave her a shard of sacrificial red porc 0Tickets3Clicks0Favorites
- Notarizing Los Angeles 公证洛城 Synopsis of Notarizing Los Angeles The Los Angeles sun blazes all year round, and traffic stretches across the San Gabriel Valley. With California's official seal in hand, Chinese notary public Ding Wenren witnesses countless immigrants standing at crossroads in life from his small office. Property transfer deeds, cross-border powers of attorney, advance healthcare directives, estate waivers, cohabitation property agreements: every document carries countless private concerns. The law only requ 0Tickets2Clicks0Favorites
- The World Beyond the Shore 彼岸人间 The World Beyond Introduction A contemporary realist novel paying tribute to Ordinary World, it recounts an epic decade in the lives of Chinese people in America. Two brothers from a farming family in Jiangxi head to Los Angeles one after another and put down roots in a foreign land. The elder brother, Ding Shougen, is steady and long-suffering. Trapped at the bottom of society overseas, he drifts between restaurant kitchens, renovation jobs, and hard labor, bearing the family's burdens through 0Tickets2Clicks0Favorites
- Liu Qi, Great General of the Song Dynasty 大宋名将刘锜 The Famous Song Dynasty General Liu Qi is a sweeping historical biographical novel chronicling the life of Liu Qi, the greatest general of the Southern Song's revival and a steadfast scholar-general forged in war. During the Song dynasty's three hundred years of elevating civil officials while suppressing the military, as its defenses grew weak, the Northern Song's realm collapsed in its final years. The Jingkang catastrophe devastated the Central Plains, and the Southern Song teetered through s 0Tickets1Clicks0Favorites
- The Shore Road 岸途 The Other Shore is a realist novel focused on Chinese immigrants in California. In the 1990s, Chen Jingshan left home to seek his fortune overseas. After pouring half a lifetime of effort into putting down roots in Los Angeles, he was determined to escape the hardship of his homeland and lift the next generation into a higher social circle. His son, Chen Yu, went to California as a teenager to attend a private high school, carrying the high hopes his father had placed in him as he embarked on a 0Tickets1Clicks0Favorites
- Copper Teeth of Crab Bay 蟹湾铜齿 Introduction to Copper Teeth of Crab Bay The long rural novel Copper Teeth of Crab Bay is rooted in six centuries of clan history in the Xiong family village of Crab Bay, Pohu County. Its central storyline follows cultural historian Xiong Yan as he returns home to revise the family genealogy, weaving together four narrative threads: the clan's past, two romances spanning different eras, three generations' pursuit of education and knowledge, and the rise and fall of the lakeside dental industry. 0Tickets1Clicks0Favorites
- Circuit Board Tides 电路板浪潮 Circuit Board Tide Three young people from the countryside, hailing from the Sui River Plain in northern Jiangsu and the water towns of Xundu in northern Jiangxi, head for Shenzhen as the turn of the century brings a surging tide of opportunity. The brothers Ding Hong and Ding Hongsheng put down roots in PCB manufacturing workshops, founding Xinzong Workshop to specialize in high-volume circuit board production. Jiang Yuantao understands the industry's pain points and establishes Chuanglian Circ 0Tickets1Clicks0Favorites
- Boyhood by the Lakeside 湖堤少年时 Synopsis of When We Were Young by the Lake In the autumn of 2023, Ding Qinghe, from Dingjia Village by the lake, begins three years of high school at Pudu County No. 1 High School. Leaving behind the fishponds and reed beds by the lake, she moves into a dormitory and meets companions with very different personalities: Xu Zhiyao, who grew up in a government compound; Zhao Guilan, who carries her whole family's hopes; and Shen Yan, a clearheaded science student. Amid heavy schoolwork, the girls e 0Tickets1Clicks0Favorites
- Los Angeles, Please Forget Me 洛杉矶，请把我忘了 Los Angeles, Please Forget Me This is a gritty, realistic, long-form novel about immigrant survival, rooted in the lives of working-class Chinese people in Los Angeles. Told in the first person by a Chinese food-delivery rider, it focuses on the riders working for the fictional delivery platform Little Bear Eats, portraying the struggles and downward spiral of drifters on the streets of Los Angeles. The protagonist has been stranded overseas for three years, making a living as an undocumented wo 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Broken Glass at Roland Hill 罗兰岗碎玻璃 Synopsis of Roland Heights Shattered Glass Written as a first-person account, this novel tells the story of a jobless, down-and-out middle-aged homeless man living in a tent at the foot of Puente Hills, struggling to get by in the Chinese communities of Los Angeles' San Gabriel Valley. The protagonist spends most of his time in the parking lots of Roland Heights' two major commercial hubs, 99 Ranch Market and Diamond Plaza. Driven by the need to survive, he teams up with Lei, a Latino drifter, 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- People of the Lakeside 湖滩人家 The Lake Shore Community is a realist rural novel rooted in Hujiazui on the shores of Poyang Lake. Drawing on the style of Wang Yimin's Rural Trilogy, it spans the ten years from 2012 to 2022. Hu Yuanhang, who once made his way in Shanghai, is moved by concerns over food safety and resolutely quits his job to return to his hometown. He plans to lease the lakefront wasteland in the village that nobody wants and build an organic, circular farming base. His decision draws doubts from the whole vill 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Crossing Moonlight at Lake Poyang 鄱湖渡月 About Crossing the Moon Over Pohu Lake Crossing the Moon Over Pohu Lake is a realist novel deeply rooted in the rural communities around Poyang Lake. The story begins with a chance encounter among the lakeside reeds. Su Duyue, a woman who has returned to her hometown, and Lu Xunzhou, a local young man, fall in love over a single fishing lantern. They only want to stay by the lake together and live a quiet, peaceful life, but they witness the harsh reality of village fundraisers falling flat, a l 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Branches Beyond the Dreaming Pine Hall 梦松堂外枝 The Branches Beyond the Dreaming Pine Hall In Dingjia Village, Dasha Township, Duchang, the Ding clan of Dreaming Pine Hall has lived beside Poyang Lake for generations. A new ancestral hall is still under construction, and the clan has agreed to rebuild its genealogy in 2028, once the hall is complete. The old genealogy, passed down for a century, records the men of each generation in meticulous detail. Every woman who married out, however, is summed up in a few words: "Ding, married to so-and- 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- When the Bankbook Burns to Ashes 存折烧尽时 When the Passbook Burns to Ashes Synopsis Forty-eight-year-old Lu Shoujian has spent most of his life denying himself and living frugally. He always puts his wife, children, and family first. He has saved 920,000 yuan through hard work, yet begrudges himself every little expense, hoping to save enough to buy a home for his son. Then a hospital makes a mistake with a report, and a diagnosis of a late-stage brain tumor is handed to him by mistake. He believes he has only a dozen or so days left to 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Bloodstains on the Grassland 草洲血痕 Bloodstains on the Grasslands Introduction to the novella During the dry season on Poyang Lake, broad stretches of grassland emerge from the water. For generations, they have provided the lakeside villagers with fodder and green manure, but they have also been the source of a century-long feud between Yuhuang Village in Duchang and Mingshan Village in Poyang. The four stretches of lake land, Shang'an Isle, Xia'an Isle, Xiangyou Isle, and Huangjin Nao, shift with the water, without markers or bou 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Crossing the River on the Jiang Wind 江风渡 River Winds Crossing River Winds Crossing tells of the turbulent fate of a generation of young people from Jiangxi amid the waves of reform. In the early 1990s, Chen Xunan, the son of a farming family, entered Nanchang University. After graduating in 1995, he was assigned to the state-owned Jiujiang Power Machinery Factory, with the kind of secure job everyone envied. By then, the accumulated problems in the state-owned enterprise system were becoming clear. Triangular debt weighed on the facto 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Beijing, the Last Evening Breeze 北京，末班晚风 Beijing, the Last Evening Breeze Synopsis Su Yanning grew up in the hutongs of the southern city and spent twenty-six years in its old neighborhoods, where the aroma of everyday life filled the air. An ordinary office worker, she had long grown accustomed to the constant flow of people in and out of the city. Countless drifters came to Beijing carrying their dreams, only to leave in disappointment under the crushing weight of reality. Having seen too many relationships come to nothing, she had a 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Ice and Flame in the Capital's Dust 冰焰京尘 Ice and Flame in the Capital's Dust Yan Bing, a graceful young woman from Hebei, leaves her hometown at eighteen and heads to Beijing to enlist, filled with youthful fervor. Two years of military life temper her and strip away her youthful softness, forging self-discipline, resilience, and integrity. She dedicates her ardent youth to military service. After leaving the army, she puts down roots in Beijing's grassroots tax system, starting as a frontline tax officer and embarking on a decades-lon 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Years of Ashes in Xun Tao 浔陶烬年 Years of Ash at Xun Tao The Yangtze flows on, and the wind blows strong along the banks of Xun. In the early 1980s, Jiujiang's General Company of Architectural Ceramics took root on Jiurui Road in the western part of the city. A factory rose from barren ground, and its kilns were fired for the first time, ushering in the golden age of state-run ceramic manufacturing in northern Jiangxi. Machines roared day and night; ball mills filled the air with dust, and roller kilns blazed with heat. Thousan 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- On Poyang Lake 鄱阳湖上 On Poyang Lake On Poyang Lake is a rural epic from the Gan and Poyang region spanning seventy-eight years. Across seventy-two chapters in four volumes, it unfolds on the waters of Poyang Lake and in the villages along its shores, tracing the changing fortunes of three generations of lake folk. Rooted in the local customs of lakeside Duchang in Jiangxi, the novel uses the lake's rising and falling waters, the migration of birds, and the fortunes of fishing and farming to reflect the changes of an 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Paulownia Blossoms Over Long 桐花照陇 Synopsis of Paulownia Blossoms Over the Long Fields Shen Yan, deputy director of the Policy Division at the China Securities Regulatory Commission in the capital, has spent years working in financial regulation. He believes in rules, data, and compliance systems, and is used to approaching every task through the logic of institutions. At thirty-six, he volunteers to serve as a deputy county magistrate in Lankao, Henan, taking charge of poverty alleviation and financial support for rural communit 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- The Glue Marks Have Yet to Fade 胶痕未尽 The Glue Marks Remain This is a long realist novel about cross-border capital spanning Hong Kong and Los Angeles, entangling the hidden currents of entertainment-industry gossip, a twenty-year fixation and romance, and a major US IRS cross-border tax case. Chen Chen, a financier, has been obsessed for half his life with Su Tian, a star surrounded by rumors and mystery about her origins, ever since seeing a blurry old QQ photo from 2007. He builds an intensely private romance on immense wealth: r 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- The Zhongjiang Chessboard 中江棋局 A synopsis of The Zhongjiang Chess Game The political landscape of Zhongjiang Province is in turmoil. The province’s top Party and government officials have both fallen from power in succession, and a decade’s worth of inflated achievements has collapsed overnight, leaving behind an unfinished new city worth hundreds of billions, polluted riverside industrial parks, crushing provincial debt, and deep public resentment. Wen Jiming, parachuted in as acting governor, enters the fray at a moment of 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- An Evening Breeze in San Gabriel 圣盖博晚风 The Evening Breeze of San Gabriel The Evening Breeze of San Gabriel is a cross-border realist novel grounded in the century-long history of Chinese immigrants in California's San Gabriel Valley. Told through three parallel timelines, past, present, and future, it follows four generations of Chinese people as they wander, struggle, and put down roots, offering a sweeping portrait of the realities of Chinese life in North America. At its center is Ding Yanren, an expert in cross-border tax and fin 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- No. 77 Golden Street Ridge 金街岭77号 Jinjieling No. 77 is a long rural and clan epic rooted in the cultural heritage of Duchang, Jiangxi, and spanning eight hundred years. The story begins in Jinjieling, a thousand-year-old place in Duchang. Drawing on county gazetteer records of the Huang family's remarkable success in the imperial examinations, with "two jinshi from one family and four of five sons passing the exams," it weaves together the traces of Shi Chong's Golden Valley from the Western Jin dynasty, the flourishing of educa 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Looking Back on Golden Street Ridge 回望金街岭 Looking Back at Jinjieling Jinjieling lies at the heart of Duchang's old town on the shore of Poyang Lake. It has weathered eight hundred years of change and was once a prosperous old commercial street in northern Jiangxi and a major inland port, carrying the legacy of clans, the bustle of everyday life, and a century of legends. In 2018, the old town was demolished. Its thousand-year-old lanes were razed, and high-rise residential complexes sprang up in their place. Time buried the old streetsc 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- Ten Thousand Years of Longevity, a Thousand Pivots 万寿千枢 Ten Thousand Longevities, a Thousand Hubs Ten Thousand Longevities, a Thousand Hubs is a long xianxia novel rooted in the culture of Jiangxi's Wanshou Palaces and the orthodox teachings of the Jingming Dao, bringing together the realms of mortals, immortals, and abyssal demons. The more than a thousand Wanshou Palaces scattered across the Gan and Poyang lands are no ordinary incense temples. They form a thousand-year-old array laid by Master Xu Xun of the Eastern Jin dynasty: iron pillars subdue 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
- The New Sequel to The Golden Lotus: Samsara in a Floating World 新续金瓶梅：浮世轮回 New Sequel to The Plum in the Golden Vase: Reincarnation in a Fleeting World This is a long modern realist novel about society and human affairs. Building on the core themes of karma and reincarnation, and of splendor returning to emptiness, in Ding Yaokang's Qing-dynasty Sequel to The Plum in the Golden Vase, it leaves behind the classical world of romance and sensuality and recasts the modern city as a "silent age of chaos," tracing the fortunes of people from a bygone era in their new lives. 0Tickets—Clicks0Favorites
