Back in the early 1980s, when a state-factory clerk's 'iron rice bowl' was crumbling and a used bicycle could change a family's life, one man wakes up knowing exactly how the next forty years go. He starts with other people's castoffs — second-hand goods nobody values yet — and trades, repairs, and hustles his way up through the most opportunity-drunk decade in modern Chinese history. A propulsive 100-chapter business saga of the reform era. Chinese edition; English translation in progress.
重生回八十年代初,铁饭碗开始晃,二手货里全是机会。他知道后面四十年的走向,就从别人不要的旧货起家:收、修、倒、卖,在改革开放的风口上一步步做成大买卖。100 章完本,年代创业。
Chapters Chapter 1: Severing Ties in Print Chapter 2: Waking Up in 1982 Chapter 3: Zhang Lei's Sneer Chapter 4: His Father's Watch on the Director's Wrist Chapter 5: The Passbook and the Watch Chapter 6: The Watch Found by the River Chapter 7: Forty Yuan to Redeem the Watch Chapter 8: Stepmother at the Door Chapter 9: The Night He Quit Chapter 10: First Stall Outside the Supply Co-op Chapter 11: A Hundred Radios Chapter 12: Eleven Hundred for the Copper Dies Chapter 13: Ma San of the South Market Chapter 14: Opening Day at the Stall Chapter 15: Showdown at the Tailor's Chapter 16: The Eleven Yuan from Father Chapter 17: A Name for the Shop Chapter 18: Buying Old Things Door to Door Chapter 19: Plans for the Long Haul South Chapter 20: Reading the Policy Wind Chapter 21: Beijing Station in the Twelfth Month Chapter 22: A Ledger at Midnight Chapter 23: Auntie Li's Radio Chapter 24: Mother's Silver Bracelets Chapter 25: Ma San Smashes the Stall Chapter 26: The Passbook by the Sickbed Chapter 27: The Day the Market Was Sealed Chapter 28: The Blue Tin Box at the Dock Chapter 29: Plotting in the Night Chapter 30: The Boat Ledger Chapter 31: One Hundred Eighty-Three Yuan Chapter 32: Selling an Air Pump Chapter 33: The Gatekeeper Old Liu Chapter 34: A Speech at the Conference Chapter 35: A Warehouse Receipt Chapter 36: A Hundred Sixty-Two Jin of Grain Coupons Chapter 37: Comparing Ledgers in the Reeds Chapter 38: The Fake Dacron Chapter 39: A Letter to the County Commission Chapter 40: Starting Over on Three Yuan Two Chapter 41: The Two-Hundred-Yuan Inspection Chapter 42: The Inspector and License 000001 Chapter 43: The Coal Truck Chapter 44: The Ledger in the Rice Sack Chapter 45: An All-Night Interrogation Chapter 46: Splitting the Partnership Chapter 47: Giving Up the Room Chapter 48: Mother's Bicycle Chapter 49: On the Green Train Chapter 50: A Three-Hundred-Yuan Job Chapter 51: Wang Lei's Watch Parts Chapter 52: A Night Haul Chapter 53: The Iron Cabinet Factory Gate Chapter 54: Six Hundred in Market Fees Chapter 55: Auditing Zhao Sihai Chapter 56: Fifteen Yuan for a Tip Chapter 57: San'ge of Sanying Street Chapter 58: Showdown at the Inn Chapter 59: Two Receipts Chapter 60: Two Hundred Sewing Machines Chapter 61: Twenty Dozen Electronic Watches Chapter 62: The Real Ledger in the Credit Union Chapter 63: A Slip of Paper Beats the Station Chief Chapter 64: The Warehouse North of the Station Chapter 65: Eight Entries in the Ledger Chapter 66: The Man in the Old Uniform Chapter 67: Enamel Basins by Night Boat Chapter 68: Two Debts in Xuzhou Chapter 69: Five Licenses at Once Chapter 70: A Telegram from Guangzhou Chapter 71: The New Stepmother Chapter 72: The Stepsister Comes Probing Chapter 73: Twenty-Six Yuan Takes All Chapter 74: Goods Off the Scrap Books Chapter 75: Section Chief Chen of the Supply Co-op Chapter 76: The Burned Ledger Chapter 77: A Forged Invoice Chapter 78: The Notice on the Pillar Chapter 79: Copper Behind the Iron Gate Chapter 80: The Scrap-Iron Margin Chapter 81: The Stepmother's Fake Illness Chapter 82: The Stepsister's Taunts Chapter 83: A Three-Tier Cart Bed Chapter 84: The Half-Burned Denunciation Chapter 85: Chen Lan Quits Her Job Chapter 86: A House for Two Hundred Yuan Chapter 87: An Eight-Word Telegram Chapter 88: The Gold Tooth at the Freight Yard Chapter 89: Half a Masthead Chapter 90: Stockpiling Basins for Winter Chapter 91: Forty-Six Yuan Three Chapter 92: Twenty Capacitors Chapter 93: Thirty-Six Waterlogged Watches Chapter 94: Two Yuan a Day Chapter 95: Thirty-Eight Hundred in Loan-Shark Debt Chapter 96: The Eight-Hundred-Yuan Forged IOU Chapter 97: Thirty-Five on the Pawn Ticket Chapter 98: A Calibrated Scale Chapter 99: An Army Overcoat Chapter 100: Cuifen Second-Hand Opens