From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

China Literature's stall at the conference displays Joy of Life, a popular online novel that has been adapted into a TV series. However, when Liu saw similar products during his trips to Japan, he realized that those crafts, popular among young people, were traditional art coated with novel cultural concepts. To write Lie Yan, Liu spent three years researching, interviewing experts from the Palace Museum, National Museum of China and Shanghai Museum, systematically learning about the authentication and conservation of cultural relics. Huo Yan, an assistant researcher with the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said because traditional literature in China cannot reflect the times－during which our social structure is undergoing a great transformationin a way that meets the expectation of the readers, it naturally falls out of favor. Readers like online literature because it satisfies what people currently most desire and reflects the social consciousness of our time," she said.

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10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection
1 month ago

10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection

China Daily  

A visitor looks at themed products of "Lord of the Mysteries" during the inclusion event of ten online Chinese novels at the British Library in London, Britain, on Nov. 21, 2024. The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Thursday by adding ten online novels by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land, and The Joy of Life. …

10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection
1 month ago

10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection

China Daily  

LONDON -- The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Thursday by adding ten online novels by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land, and The Joy of Life. These novels, originally published on platforms operated by Yuewen, a Chinese online literature company, were donated to document the cultural significance and rapid development of internet literature in China. …

10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection
1 month ago

10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection

China Daily  

LONDON -- The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Thursday by adding ten online novels by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land, and The Joy of Life. These novels, originally published on platforms operated by Yuewen, a Chinese online literature company, were donated to document the cultural significance and rapid development of internet literature in China. …

Online entertainment bolsters cultural prosperity
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Online entertainment bolsters cultural prosperity

China Daily  

Stills from popular online dramas in recent years such as Meet Yourself, To the Wonder, Blossoms Shanghai, and Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty 2 For most Chinese people, it is hard to imagine living without watching their favorite shows, listening to their loved musicians, and playing online games. The surge in diverse high-quality content across various streaming platforms, such as …

Online entertainment bolsters cultural prosperity
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Online entertainment bolsters cultural prosperity

China Daily  

Stills from popular online dramas in recent years such as Meet Yourself, To the Wonder, Blossoms Shanghai, and Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty 2 For most Chinese people, it is hard to imagine living without watching their favorite shows, listening to their loved musicians, and playing online games. The surge in diverse high-quality content across various streaming platforms, such as …

Top 10 words making a buzz in online literature
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Top 10 words making a buzz in online literature

China Daily  

China Literature Group exhibits artistic renditions of 150 of its online literature IPs in Dongguan Library on April 22 last year. A list of the "Top 10 Buzzwords in Chinese Online Literature in 2023", co-released recently by The Paper, a digital newspaper, and the country's largest online literature content provider, China Literature Group, displays trendy ways that young people tackle …

Online novels win top awards
1 year, 8 months ago

Online novels win top awards

China Daily  

International winners of WSA 2022, a competition for authors of online novels on WebNovel, an international portal of China Literature company, attend the award ceremony held in Hong Kong this month. By the end of last year, Web-Novel had run translations of about 2,900 Chinese online novels, according to a report recently co-released by China Literature and Global Times Research …

Online literature offers new worldwide lens for China's stories of past, present
1 year, 9 months ago

Online literature offers new worldwide lens for China's stories of past, present

China Daily  

In the latest novel by Kittisak Kongka, a 33-year-old Thai online writer, one of the major settings is a restaurant. Kongka's novel won a gold award in the WebNovel Spirity Awards 2022, a global online novel writing competition organized by WebNovel, a reading portal owned by China Literature Limited. In 2021, more than 10,000 Chinese online literary works entered overseas …

Online literature offers new worldwide lens for China's stories of past, present
1 year, 9 months ago

Online literature offers new worldwide lens for China's stories of past, present

China Daily  

In the latest novel by Kittisak Kongka, a 33-year-old Thai online writer, one of the major settings is a restaurant. Kongka's novel won a gold award in the WebNovel Spirity Awards 2022, a global online novel writing competition organized by WebNovel, a reading portal owned by China Literature Limited. In 2021, more than 10,000 Chinese online literary works entered overseas …

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection
2 years, 3 months ago

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection

China Daily  

Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have been added to the collection of the British Library, including My Heroic Husband, Up in the Heaven, The Era of the Earth, The First Order, Great Doctor Ling Ran, The Wisdom of Great Song Dynasty and Great Power, Heavy Industry. As one of the current pillars of mass cultural consumption, which began with "fastfood" …

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection
2 years, 3 months ago

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection

China Daily  

Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have been added to the collection of the British Library, including My Heroic Husband, Up in the Heaven, The Era of the Earth, The First Order, Great Doctor Ling Ran, The Wisdom of Great Song Dynasty and Great Power, Heavy Industry. As one of the current pillars of mass cultural consumption, which began with "fastfood" …

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection
2 years, 3 months ago

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection

China Daily  

Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have been added to the collection of the British Library, including My Heroic Husband, Up in the Heaven, The Era of the Earth, The First Order, Great Doctor Ling Ran, The Wisdom of Great Song Dynasty and Great Power, Heavy Industry. As one of the current pillars of mass cultural consumption, which began with "fastfood" …

Chinese online novels now available at the British Library
2 years, 3 months ago

Chinese online novels now available at the British Library

China Daily  

Book cover of The King's Avatar. Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have entered a collection in the British Library, including My Heroic Husband, Up in the Heaven, The Era of the Earth, The First Order, Great Doctor Ling Ran, Great Power, Heavy Industry and The Wisdom of Great Song Dynasty. In 2019, 10 online novels, Great Power, Heavy Industry included, …

Chinese online novels now available at the British Library
2 years, 3 months ago

Chinese online novels now available at the British Library

China Daily  

Book cover of The King's Avatar. Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have entered a collection in the British Library, including My Heroic Husband, Up in the Heaven, The Era of the Earth, The First Order, Great Doctor Ling Ran, Great Power, Heavy Industry and The Wisdom of Great Song Dynasty. In 2019, 10 online novels, Great Power, Heavy Industry included, …

Digital stories have successful plot twist
2 years, 7 months ago

Digital stories have successful plot twist

China Daily  

A study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shows that online literature has become an important component of the cultural life of Chinese people. It also shoulders increasing responsibilities to create good stories, encourage more people to read, and help achieve the goal of building a "strong culture" by 2035, according to a study of online literature in 2021 …

Online literature plots overseas success
2 years, 11 months ago

Online literature plots overseas success

China Daily  

A popular novel at Webnovel: Lord of Mysteries. According to China Literature, inspired by Chinese online fiction translated in earlier years, overseas writers also include Chinese culture and Chinese online fiction elements in their works like respect for teachers and truth. The most commonly seen are imitation of Chinese xianxia and wuxia like the cultivation of gods and goddesses, the …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

Guest speakers discuss how to improve online literature during a creation forum at the event. The lost identity in a new time and space, and how to apply modern experience to certain historical circumstances, might provide literary nourishment for readers," she said. Now it is time for online literature to shoulder its responsibility to build a better spiritual life for …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

Visitors communicate with a robot at China Online Literature+ Conference 2021 in Beijing. After 20 years of development, Chinese online literature has become one of the pillar resources of pop culture consumption in China. "Judging from either the number of writers, or the quality of their writing, or the reader base and the education level therein, online literature has topped …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

Visitors communicate with a robot at China Online Literature+ Conference 2021 in Beijing. After 20 years of development, Chinese online literature has become one of the pillar resources of pop culture consumption in China. "Judging from either the number of writers, or the quality of their writing, or the reader base and the education level therein, online literature has topped …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

Guest speakers discuss how to improve online literature during a creation forum at the event. The lost identity in a new time and space, and how to apply modern experience to certain historical circumstances, might provide literary nourishment for readers," she said. Now it is time for online literature to shoulder its responsibility to build a better spiritual life for …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

China Literature's stall at the conference displays Joy of Life, a popular online novel that has been adapted into a TV series. However, when Liu saw similar products during his trips to Japan, he realized that those crafts, popular among young people, were traditional art coated with novel cultural concepts. To write Lie Yan, Liu spent three years researching, interviewing …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

Visitors communicate with a robot at China Online Literature+ Conference 2021 in Beijing. After 20 years of development, Chinese online literature has become one of the pillar resources of pop culture consumption in China. "Judging from either the number of writers, or the quality of their writing, or the reader base and the education level therein, online literature has topped …

From fantasy to reality
3 years, 1 month ago

From fantasy to reality

China Daily  

Visitors communicate with a robot at China Online Literature+ Conference 2021 in Beijing. After 20 years of development, Chinese online literature has become one of the pillar resources of pop culture consumption in China. "Judging from either the number of writers, or the quality of their writing, or the reader base and the education level therein, online literature has topped …

Online Chinese literature plots a story of success with foreign fans
3 years, 5 months ago

Online Chinese literature plots a story of success with foreign fans

China Daily  

A poster for the TV series Nirvana in Fire, adapted from an online novel, featuring its protagonist Mei Changsu, played by actor Hu Ge. With the rapid development of China's online literature landscape, Chinese online novels have created a huge fan base overseas. By 2020, more than 10,000 online literary works had entered overseas markets and attracted over 100 million …

Writing community with a shared future
3 years, 11 months ago

Writing community with a shared future

China Daily  

International authors and translators visit Shanghai during an event hosted by Webnovel in mid-November. The latest report on China's online literature scene, released by the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association on the fourth China Online Literature Plus Conference in September, says that 3,452 original Chinese titles had been translated into foreign languages by 2019; that includes 1,700 titles in …

Writing community with a shared future
3 years, 11 months ago

Writing community with a shared future

China Daily  

Five popular novels released by Webnovel, a major website of Chinese online literature. Evolving from nothing Cheng Wu, CEO of China Literature Corp, says Webnovel now offers some 160,000 original online novels written in English and those might be translated into more languages soon. "Online literature, featuring a large number of users, a wide range of topics, and interactivity, has …

Writing community with a shared future
3 years, 11 months ago

Writing community with a shared future

China Daily  

International authors and translators visit Shanghai during an event hosted by Webnovel in mid-November. The latest report on China's online literature scene, released by the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association on the fourth China Online Literature Plus Conference in September, says that 3,452 original Chinese titles had been translated into foreign languages by 2019; that includes 1,700 titles in …

Writing community with a shared future
3 years, 11 months ago

Writing community with a shared future

China Daily  

International authors and translators visit Shanghai during an event hosted by Webnovel in mid-November. The latest report on China's online literature scene, released by the China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association on the fourth China Online Literature Plus Conference in September, says that 3,452 original Chinese titles had been translated into foreign languages by 2019; that includes 1,700 titles in …

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