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 the reading market in China," He Changzai, a popular online writer, said at the recent launch ceremony of the China Online Literature+ Conference 2021 in Beijing. A report by the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association shows that, in 2020, the market value of Chinese online literature reached nearly 25 billion yuan with a domestic reader base of 460 million people, of which around 7.58 million are active, daily users. Liu Xiahui, who writes novels about traditional Chinese medicine, tai chi, the authentication and conservation of cultural relics and the legends of Chinese dragons, shared his experience in finding inspiration from reality at a forum on online literature creation.

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Games, literature see online growth
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Games, literature see online growth

China Daily  

An exhibition displays popular online literary works in Dongguan, Guangdong province. Recent surveys conducted by the China Audio-Video Digital Publishing Association's Game Committee revealed the embrace of traditional Chinese culture in game development, with 84 percent of Chinese game enterprises incorporating traditional characters in game character design and 98 percent utilizing traditional cultural elements in game environments and item designs. …

Chinese online literature starts new chapter overseas
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Chinese online literature starts new chapter overseas

China Daily  

Wu Yiqin, vice-president of China Writers Association After more than two decades of development, Chinese online literature has not only become one of the pillar resources of the pop culture market in China, but it is also an important way for people from different cultures to learn about each other, and communicate in the comment sections. By the end of …

Chinese online literature starts new chapter overseas
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Chinese online literature starts new chapter overseas

China Daily  

Wu Yiqin, vice-president of China Writers Association After more than two decades of development, Chinese online literature has not only become one of the pillar resources of the pop culture market in China, but it is also an important way for people from different cultures to learn about each other, and communicate in the comment sections. By the end of …

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" …

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

British Library adds Chinese online novels to collection

China Daily  

The Road to Revival. Great Power, Heavy Industry tells of how China's manufacturing industries have grown stronger in recent decades, and foreign readers can learn about the Chinese system and culture behind the country's swift economic development, getting to know China better in the process, the author, whose online pen name is Qicheng, says. One of the largest online literature …

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, 8 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 …

Bookworms surfing the web to find a good read
2 years, 11 months ago

Bookworms surfing the web to find a good read

China Daily  

A list of the best online fiction from platforms of China Literature Group, the comprehensive cultural business branch of Tencent, was released recently by consultant company Endata. According to the 2020 Chinese Online Literature Blue Paper, which was released in May by the China Writers Association, among the new writers registered since 2018, 74 percent were born after 1995 and …

Bookworms surfing the web to find a good read
2 years, 11 months ago

Bookworms surfing the web to find a good read

China Daily  

A list of the best online fiction from platforms of China Literature Group, the comprehensive cultural business branch of Tencent, was released recently by consultant company Endata. According to the 2020 Chinese Online Literature Blue Paper, which was released in May by the China Writers Association, among the new writers registered since 2018, 74 percent were born after 1995 and …

Online literature plots overseas success
2 years, 11 months ago

Online literature plots overseas success

China Daily  

Popular online novels from platforms of the China Literature Group have been translated into various languages. CHINA DAILY Before becoming a web novel writer in 2018, Disha Florence from Dhaka, Bangladesh, now 25, was trying to find a way to free herself from the restrictions faced by a woman, a wish she has had since she was 8. It was …

Online literature plots overseas success
2 years, 11 months ago

Online literature plots overseas success

China Daily  

Popular online novels from platforms of the China Literature Group have been translated into various languages. CHINA DAILY Before becoming a web novel writer in 2018, Disha Florence from Dhaka, Bangladesh, now 25, was trying to find a way to free herself from the restrictions faced by a woman, a wish she has had since she was 8. It was …

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  

A game station set up by tadu.com, a literature site, to interact with visitors. "Online literature is not only about imaginative themes like time travel or fantasy stories anymore, but is more realistic, with topics ranging from the frustrations, and the value, of life, which further inspires people to ponder questions regarding the country's development, national rejuvenation and the future …

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  

A game station set up by tadu.com, a literature site, to interact with visitors. "Online literature is not only about imaginative themes like time travel or fantasy stories anymore, but is more realistic, with topics ranging from the frustrations, and the value, of life, which further inspires people to ponder questions regarding the country's development, national rejuvenation and the future …

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  

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 …

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 …

Fast-moving words
3 years, 6 months ago

Fast-moving words

China Daily  

Visitors look through books on display at an online literature fair in Beijing in 2018. "In terms of income, I haven't even reached the middle level among online writers," says Zuo, who is among some 600,000 active online literature authors in China. In 2020, the market value of online literature surpassed 28.8 billion yuan, up 29.7 percent compared with the …

Fast-moving words
3 years, 6 months ago

Fast-moving words

China Daily  

Visitors look through books on display at an online literature fair in Beijing in 2018. "In terms of income, I haven't even reached the middle level among online writers," says Zuo, who is among some 600,000 active online literature authors in China. In 2020, the market value of online literature surpassed 28.8 billion yuan, up 29.7 percent compared with the …

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 …

Web novels capture changes in reading habits of Chinese women
3 years, 11 months ago

Web novels capture changes in reading habits of Chinese women

China Daily  

Biao Xiao Jie by Zhizhi The list of the top 20 best web novels from the women channels of China Literature Group under Tencent was released recently, reflecting the shift of the reading interest of Chinese women in 2020. The list is based on the research of the web novels published on the group's six major female channels, including qdmm.com, …

Web novels capture changes in reading habits of Chinese women
3 years, 11 months ago

Web novels capture changes in reading habits of Chinese women

China Daily  

Biao Xiao Jie by Zhizhi The list of the top 20 best web novels from the women channels of China Literature Group under Tencent was released recently, reflecting the shift of the reading interest of Chinese women in 2020. The list is based on the research of the web novels published on the group's six major female channels, including qdmm.com, …

Web novels capture changes in reading habits of Chinese women
3 years, 11 months ago

Web novels capture changes in reading habits of Chinese women

China Daily  

Biao Xiao Jie by Zhizhi The list of the top 20 best web novels from the women channels of China Literature Group under Tencent was released recently, reflecting the shift of the reading interest of Chinese women in 2020. The list is based on the research of the web novels published on the group's six major female channels, including qdmm.com, …

Growing overseas readership of Chinese online literature
4 years, 1 month ago

Growing overseas readership of Chinese online literature

China Daily  

Reading on an ebook reader China Literature Corporate released a White Book of 2020 Chinese Online Literature Going Global during the First Shanghai International Online Literature Week. Part of the following data comes from 2019 Report of China Online Literature Development by China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association. By 2019, 10,000 titles of online literature were "made by China, read …

Growing overseas readership of Chinese online literature
4 years, 1 month ago

Growing overseas readership of Chinese online literature

China Daily  

Reading on an ebook reader China Literature Corporate released a White Book of 2020 Chinese Online Literature Going Global during the First Shanghai International Online Literature Week. Part of the following data comes from 2019 Report of China Online Literature Development by China Audio-video and Digital Publishing Association. By 2019, 10,000 titles of online literature were "made by China, read …

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