Winning Studies: The Ming Dynasty Version of the American Dream
Lin Zhao, a Harvard PhD in political science, travels back to Ming China in 1521. Armed with America’s constitutional ideals, he assists the hereditary Prince of Xingxian in ascending the throne and establishes the United States of the Great Ming Republic. Separation of powers, electoral politics, freedom of speech—when the system is perfectly transplanted, when “victory studies” becomes a new religion, and when the 365th triumph is achieved, Lin Zhao suddenly realizes: what he has built is not a beacon of democracy, but a sophisticated machine of oppression. This is a political fable about institutional alienation, a self-judgment of elitism, and an epic revolution in which the “losers” at the bottom rewrite history through “Xiaohongshu”.