10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection

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10 Chinese online literature works added to British Library collection

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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. Rai added that Chinese online literature showcases the growing diversity in storytelling, offering innovative ways for global audiences to connect with stories. By the end of 2023, the number of Chinese online literature readers reached a record 537 million, with the overseas market for this genre surpassing 4 billion yuan, spanning over 200 countries and regions.

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Chinese web novels added to British Library collection

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Chinese web novels added to British Library collection

China Daily

Some of the exhibited titles. LONDON — The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Nov 21 by adding printed copies of 10 novels originally published online by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land and Joy of Life. These novels, originally published on platforms operated by Yuewen, an online Chinese literature company, were donated to document the …

Chinese web novels added to British Library collection

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Chinese web novels added to British Library collection

China Daily

Some of the exhibited titles. LONDON — The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Nov 21 by adding printed copies of 10 novels originally published online by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land and Joy of Life. These novels, originally published on platforms operated by Yuewen, an online Chinese literature company, were donated to document the …

Chinese web novels added to British Library collection

2 weeks, 6 days ago

Chinese web novels added to British Library collection

China Daily

China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-12-03 09:05 Some of the exhibited titles. LONDON — The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Nov 21 by adding printed copies of 10 novels originally published online by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land and Joy of Life. These novels, originally published on platforms operated by Yuewen, an online Chinese …

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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. …

Top 10 words making a buzz in online literature

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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, 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 …

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

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 …

Fast-moving words

3 years, 5 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, 5 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

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 …

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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Cultural 'seed bank' explores richness of Chinese civilization

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A multi-screen exhibition inside the Guangzhou branch of the China National Archives of Publications and Culture upon its opening in 2022. GUANGZHOU — The Guangzhou branch of the China National Archives of Publications and Culture, a newly established landmark in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangdong province, stands as both an architectural masterpiece and a repository of the profound richness …

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Ancient books get a new chapter

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Ancient books get a new chapter

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Professor Yang Yuliang and colleagues at the rare books room in the Library of Fudan University. The first institute in China dedicated to the conservation and preservation of ancient Chinese books celebrated its 10th anniversary recently in Shanghai. Through 10 years of development, the Institute for Preservation and Conservation of Chinese Ancient Books at the Shanghai-based Fudan University has conducted …

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Novel approach to 'fairy tale'

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SISU exhibition commemorates 75-year anniversary

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SISU exhibition commemorates 75-year anniversary

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A textbook exhibition, a microcosm of the massive textbooks that Shanghai International Studies University has compiled over the past 75 years since its founding, is being held at the school. It was one of the earliest and most influential English textbooks published after China's reform and opening-up, and is still widely used today, having a far-reaching influence in the country's …

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SISU exhibition commemorates 75-year anniversary

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A textbook exhibition, a microcosm of the massive textbooks that Shanghai International Studies University has compiled over the past 75 years since its founding, is being held at the school. It was one of the earliest and most influential English textbooks published after China's reform and opening-up, and is still widely used today, having a far-reaching influence in the country's …

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Women writers bond over words

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Women writers bond over words

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Book lovers in a group photo with the four Asian women writers in Beijing last month, after attending their dialogue, organized by the Beijing October Arts and Literature Publishing House. One of the most popular literary activities last month was a dialogue between four Asian women writers — Gong Ji-yeong from South Korea, Li Zishu from Malaysia, and Qiao Ye …

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Women writers bond over words

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Women writers bond over words

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Around 500 publishers to take part in this year's children's book fair

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Around 500 publishers to take part in this year's children's book fair

China Daily

The official poster for the upcoming China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair. The 2024 China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair will take place at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre from Nov 15-17, when 497 publishers and exhibitors from 32 countries and regions will be showcasing more than 20,000 new titles of children's books. According to Chai Chengwei, …

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Around 500 publishers to take part in this year's children's book fair

1 month, 1 week ago

Around 500 publishers to take part in this year's children's book fair

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The official poster for the upcoming China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair. The 2024 China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair will take place at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre from Nov 15-17, when 497 publishers and exhibitors from 32 countries and regions will be showcasing more than 20,000 new titles of children's books. According to Chai Chengwei, …

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China Daily presents creative cultural products at Malta Book Festival

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China Daily presents creative cultural products at Malta Book Festival

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A number of China Daily's special editions, including those on the Year of the Dragon and China's UNESCO World Heritage sites, were displayed along with a diverse array of creative cultural products at the "Reading China" themed exhibition in the 2024 Malta Book Festival between Nov 6-10, enchanting Maltese and international visitors alike. This year marks the first time that …

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Experts suggest creating digital Chinese textbooks

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Experts suggest creating digital Chinese textbooks

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There is a huge overseas demand for Chinese textbooks, but challenges remain, experts agreed at a recent symposium hosted by the National Institute for Higher Education Teaching Materials under Higher Education Press. According to the 2023 International Chinese Language Teaching Resources Development Report, over 21,600 types of Chinese language textbooks have been shipped to more than 180 countries, an increase …

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Exporting Chinese textbooks presents opportunities, challenges

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Exporting Chinese textbooks presents opportunities, challenges

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The first Neutron & Fiction Monthly’s List of Works with the Greatest Potential for Screen Adaptation awards five short stories and five novellas in Beijing on Friday. After spending a year soliciting over 370 literary works from across the country, an award list was unveiled in Beijing on Friday, showcasing the top works of fiction with the greatest potential for …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Quzhou opens reading week with book fair, award ceremony

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China's Curated Books Offer Glimpse into a Globalized World at Frankfurt Fair

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The article showcases China's curated book collection at the Frankfurt Book Fair, featuring over 3,500 titles covering various genres. The exhibition aims to promote global dialogue and cultural exchange between China and the world. Chinese publishers are actively participating, with agreements signed for international collaborations and the release of new translations. The fair also features a special platform for authors …

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Translators Share Ideas on Journey to the Western Highlands

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Breathing digital life into ancient books

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Breathing digital life into ancient books

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Over 30,000 titles, 1,000 activities highlight Shanghai book fair

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Literary exchange crafts cultural tapestry

China Daily

It was another US-China exchange, only this one was not focused on weighty issues such as trade or politics but on literary scholarship. Xu Yuechun, vice-chairman and secretary-general of the Chinese Literature and Art Critics Association, and director of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles' Literature and Art Criticism Center, is the book's co-editor. Karen Thornber, professor of …

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