The Card Magician is a representative long-form science fiction work by the web novelist Fang Xiang. First serialized on Qidian Chinese Network, it runs about 2.1 million Chinese characters and is complete. The story takes place in a federal world centered on cards: a card's grade represents not only a person's power but also their status, wealth, and honor, which makes card makers and card cultivators the most respected professions in society. The protagonist, Chen Mu, is an ordinary teenage card maker in the East District who barely survives by producing low-level energy cards and has been worn into silence by materials and livelihood. By chance, he obtains a mysterious card of unknown origin; it is the crystallization of a master card maker's life work and contains card-making knowledge far beyond its era. From then on, Chen Mu begins by copying cards, gradually grasps crafting methods such as illusion cards, and through various trials embarks on the path of a card cultivator. He partners with his friend Lei Zi to form the famous "Wood Thunder" duo in card-shadow history, and successively releases works such as the digital card series, drawing contention from various factions and triggering covert struggles between academics and interest groups. The novel follows the growth of a lower-class youth as its main thread, tracing his journey from solitary survival to partnership with his brother and then to leading a team, and combines card-making details, battle scenes, and ensemble characterization. It is a founding work and one of the representative works of the "card genre" in Chinese web literature.
Guangxi People's Publishing House is known for its social science books and themed publishing, while also covering literary appreciation, Eastern philosophy, and cultural classics. The database contains 57 titles from the press, including classic readers in the "illustrated edition" series such as A Brief History of Chinese Fiction, Renjian Cihua, Miscellaneous Discussions on Tang Poetry, Common Classical Knowledge, and Lectures on the History of Medieval Chinese Literature, as well as themed titles like Shushan You Lu: Mao Zedong's Way of Learning and Application, and social novels such as Hell Media. Its authors range from modern masters such as Lu Xun, Wang Guowei, Zhu Ziqing, Wen Yiduo, and Liu Shipei to contemporary writers such as Chen Jin and Chen Jian. Overall, the press emphasizes making classic texts accessible to general readers and publishing social science and themed readers that balance scholarship with readability. Due to limited public information, other publishing features await further supplementation.
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