For many Chinese, literary dreams go online
by Lara Farrar
http://http//www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/02/15/china.publishing/index.html?eref=rss_tech
2/15/09
This report is about a man in china named Murong Xuecun, Formally a sales manager for a major car company in China. On the side Murong wrote a story on modern urban life, which made its way onto many online forums. His work has become so popular that it has even been featured on T.V. in 3 different languages. Many people view him as a pioneer of the most resent online literary renaissance. More and more Chinese writers are using the Internet to get their messages out. An example of this is Shanda Literature operates three of China's biggest online literature site that receive more than 200 million page views a day. They own the rights to more than 200,000 works.Publishers have started a new wave of looking for their new up and coming writers on the web. Bookstores now have sections devoted to Internet novels published as paperbacks Hopefully this revolution will further liberalize the Chinese publishing industry.
I think that this is a very good thing for China, and the Chinese people. The Chinese government has always been very strict on individual expression. Hopefully this online revolution will bring together writers of not only China but of the entire world to a central place called the Internet. The web has really changed how we view authors because anyone can now write something and put it on the web for anyone in the world to see. In my opinion, This might lead to a new wave of plagiarism, because it makes it easier to “copy” and “paste” stories together.
by Lara Farrar
http://http//www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/02/15/china.publishing/index.html?eref=rss_tech
2/15/09
This report is about a man in china named Murong Xuecun, Formally a sales manager for a major car company in China. On the side Murong wrote a story on modern urban life, which made its way onto many online forums. His work has become so popular that it has even been featured on T.V. in 3 different languages. Many people view him as a pioneer of the most resent online literary renaissance. More and more Chinese writers are using the Internet to get their messages out. An example of this is Shanda Literature operates three of China's biggest online literature site that receive more than 200 million page views a day. They own the rights to more than 200,000 works.Publishers have started a new wave of looking for their new up and coming writers on the web. Bookstores now have sections devoted to Internet novels published as paperbacks Hopefully this revolution will further liberalize the Chinese publishing industry.
I think that this is a very good thing for China, and the Chinese people. The Chinese government has always been very strict on individual expression. Hopefully this online revolution will bring together writers of not only China but of the entire world to a central place called the Internet. The web has really changed how we view authors because anyone can now write something and put it on the web for anyone in the world to see. In my opinion, This might lead to a new wave of plagiarism, because it makes it easier to “copy” and “paste” stories together.
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