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For quite a Long period, the translation and publication of contemporary Chinese Literature have only been active in ivory towers Like universities and professional research institutions. In recent ten years since the beginning of the new century, the situation has reformed profoundly and contemporary Chinese Literature develops so rapidly that it gradually becomes popular common readers in European and American societies. It has become a window for Western people to Learn about Chinese society.
The most influential translations of Chinese literature in 2014 In recent years, the number of Chinese Literature theme books (including books written in foreign Languages and translations) published in the world keeps more than 700 every year, nearly two varieties every day. Based on the search results of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc) of global Library collection data, the number of Chinese Literature translations published abroad has reached over 100 varieties in 2014. 112 countries and regions in the world have been in the range searching, including more than 20,000 Libraries, over 470 Languages. According to the influence ranking (given the condition that only the book collected by over 30 libraries can be counted in, the number of Library included in accounts for about l/100), it is found there are 20 most influential contemporary Chinese Literary translations (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in 2014.See the table.
Twenty translations of Chinese Literature Listed in the above table can be regarded as representatives of Chinese Literature in the world Literature circles. It contains both classical and modern masterpieces, including Romance of the Three Kingdoms, poems by Li Shangyin of the Tang dynasty, and Mirage, a novel created in the Oing dynasty, popular works by contemporary pure Literature writers including Mo Yan, Mai Jia, Tie Ning,Yu Hua and Can Xue,works by the younger generation such as GuoXiaolu and Sheng Keyi, as well as the science fiction of Liu Cixin, a domestic young writer. These works fall into different genres including novels, poems, and books for children. Four are traditional Literature and 16 contemporary.Contemporary Chinese Literature is shining brightly.
Chinese and foreign literatures reading tending towardsintegration
In recent years, Chinese and foreign Literatures reading is tending towards integration. Literary schools become more active in interaction, which is well evidenced by the List above. Contemporary writers Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Mai Jia,Tie Ning, Can Xue, and Wang Xiaoni are a Ll pure Literature writers early known and highly acclaimed in the domestic country. Their works, particularly those tending towards popular American and European styles, have drawn extra constant attention from publishers overseas. For instance, Decoded by Mai Jia,topping the List,is a mystery- thriller, a genre which has Long been popular among readers in the West. Moreover, a great number of books written by writers born in the 1970s are being translated and published, gaining more and more popularity overseas. After the publication of Fenfang's 37.2 Degrees and Dictionary for Lovers by GuoXiaolu,who received her MA from Beijing Film Academy, I Am China, her Latest work in 2014, was translated and published by Chatto & Windus (UK).Another writer is Sheng Keyi, born in the 1970s, whose many works have been translated and published abroad,including six Long novels Like Northern Girls, Water Milk (Shulru) and Ode to Morality, and many novelettes Like Short Stories of Sheng Keyi, An Inexperienced World, Leave a Room for You. Her novel Austra Lian Eng Lish edition Death Fugue is in the list this year. In 2010, the first Chinese edition of The Three-Body Problem, a science fiction series by Liu Cixin, a Chinese electronics engineer, created quite a stir.The sales volume of each of The Three-Body Problem series is more than 500,000. Its influence in the domestic country soon attracted the attention of European and American publishing world and its overseas copyright was outright sold quickly. It got American sci-fi fans' response soon after the English edition of The Three-Body Problem was published by Tor Books (US).Within Less than one month, 214 copies were collected by Libraries, much more than expected.The New York Times published a remark on it with the title "The Three-Body Problem provides a new flavor for American sci-fi fans". It said,"At present, many sci-fi authors prefer themes of reflecting the real world such as climatic change, gender change, and so on, rather than the traditional plot of alien invasion". In the first volume of The Three-Body Problem, it tells about the contact between terran and three-body civilization.The conflict stories between different civilizations are more popular among American readers.
The promoters of worldwide bestsellers pay attention totranslations of Chinese literature
The translation and publication of Chinese Literature in Europe and America dated from 1970s.Top university presses in Europe and America were the main force with the main purpose of academic research. Therefore,the Chinese Literature mainly had influence in academic,while it was difficult to go into popular Literature reading market. Since the beginning of the new century, some transnational publishing groups have made great efforts in developing Chinese Literature market. Some western Literary agents have paid highly close attention to Chinese promising Literary writers, seeking potential authors with worldwide subjects, which enhances the global influence of contemporary Chinese literature.
Pantheon Books (US), by which two books Listed in the most influential translations in 2014 were published, is a good example. It published Boy in the Twillght: Stories of the Hidden China written by Yu Hua and The Man with Compound Eyes (published in 2011,the second edition in 2014) written by Wu Mingyi (Taiwan), with the copies acquired by Libraries of 443 and 350 respectively. The Pantheon Books (US), affiliated to the Random House,has many world famous authors. It began to pay close attention to contemporary Chinese Literature since a very early time. It successfully contracted with Chinese American author Ha Jin and made him become a world- class Literary author gradually. So far, the Pantheon Books (US) has gained the copyrights of many contemporary Chinese authors' works, including works of Yu Hua, Zhang Xinxin, Mo Yan,Yang Xianhui, Ma Jian and others. Among them, the CODvriahts of Yu Hua's works are the most. Known as "the exclusive publishing house for Nobel prize in Literature", Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (US) (FSG) is another publishing house Like Pantheon Books. Published by the FSG, Decoded written by Mai Jia has 686 copies acquired by Libraries. It broke the record of 670 setting by Red Sorghum written by Mo Yan, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature.Affiliated to the same publishing group of Pantheon Books, the Doubleday (US) translated and published I Am China written by GuoXiaolu in 2014.The copies of this book acquired by Libraries are 242. Many of worldwide bestseller promoters are among these transnational groups. With the participation of these groups, contemporary Chinese Literature has a relatively wider popularity alL over the worLd. It gradually becomes the most convenient way to read Chinese Literature and to Learn about China.
BOY in the Twillght:Stories of the Hidden China
Yu Hual Writers Publishing House|September 2012 |ISBN: 9787506365345 | ￥25.00
12 short stories of Yu Hua are included inthis book.
The Man with Compound Eyes
Wu Mingyil New Star Press Co., Ltd.|March 2013 |ISBN: 9787513310253 |￥32.00
It tells a sad story about the past and present of an island, and also indicates the future of mankind.There is an island in the vast sea. People on the island hold the belief that the sea is the world, and it is the god who creates the island for them.The second son in every family on the island must put out to sea on the 180th full moon after their birth, and never be allowed to turn round.The juvenile Atelie's fate is caused by the fact of being the second son...
Last Words from Montmartre QiuMiaojin I Guangxi Normal University Press | August 2012 |1SBN: 9787549522644 |￥28.00
It is a Life monologue of a woman saying goodbye to the world. It ana Lyses the Love and beauty,art and life in her heart in detail by applying intense, pure, and passionate words. In the book,the thick description on sexual passion of the fema Le is ba Ld,fra nk, sad and direct.lt is the authentic record of OiuMiaojin's thoughts and experiences before her death. It records the experiences of hope and injury,the process of Love and hurt,even the horrifying description on death.lt can be regarded as the real posthumous papers.This book was edited and published by her friends in the second year after her death, and it made a stir all over Taiwan.
The Bathing Women
Tie Ning |Writers Publishing House| August2013|ISBN: 9787506370189|￥23.00
The protagonist Yin Xiaotiao bears heavy mental burden for her mother's unchastity and her Little sister's accidenta L death. She alienates her mother. Her younger sister Yin Xiaofan always behaves against her; instead of a relative,she behaves Like a rivaLYin Xiaotiao is passionately infatuated with a supersta r, Fang Jing. However, she rea Lizes he is just a Layman who wants gains without giving after she knows more about him; she can't help accepting another man for his pursuit. However, she finds that he has already married when she falls in Love with him.Yin Xiaotiao is growing and Loving,but her heart has been drifting with no proper harbor to stay.
The most influential translations of Chinese literature in 2014 In recent years, the number of Chinese Literature theme books (including books written in foreign Languages and translations) published in the world keeps more than 700 every year, nearly two varieties every day. Based on the search results of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc) of global Library collection data, the number of Chinese Literature translations published abroad has reached over 100 varieties in 2014. 112 countries and regions in the world have been in the range searching, including more than 20,000 Libraries, over 470 Languages. According to the influence ranking (given the condition that only the book collected by over 30 libraries can be counted in, the number of Library included in accounts for about l/100), it is found there are 20 most influential contemporary Chinese Literary translations (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in 2014.See the table.
Twenty translations of Chinese Literature Listed in the above table can be regarded as representatives of Chinese Literature in the world Literature circles. It contains both classical and modern masterpieces, including Romance of the Three Kingdoms, poems by Li Shangyin of the Tang dynasty, and Mirage, a novel created in the Oing dynasty, popular works by contemporary pure Literature writers including Mo Yan, Mai Jia, Tie Ning,Yu Hua and Can Xue,works by the younger generation such as GuoXiaolu and Sheng Keyi, as well as the science fiction of Liu Cixin, a domestic young writer. These works fall into different genres including novels, poems, and books for children. Four are traditional Literature and 16 contemporary.Contemporary Chinese Literature is shining brightly.
Chinese and foreign literatures reading tending towardsintegration
In recent years, Chinese and foreign Literatures reading is tending towards integration. Literary schools become more active in interaction, which is well evidenced by the List above. Contemporary writers Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Mai Jia,Tie Ning, Can Xue, and Wang Xiaoni are a Ll pure Literature writers early known and highly acclaimed in the domestic country. Their works, particularly those tending towards popular American and European styles, have drawn extra constant attention from publishers overseas. For instance, Decoded by Mai Jia,topping the List,is a mystery- thriller, a genre which has Long been popular among readers in the West. Moreover, a great number of books written by writers born in the 1970s are being translated and published, gaining more and more popularity overseas. After the publication of Fenfang's 37.2 Degrees and Dictionary for Lovers by GuoXiaolu,who received her MA from Beijing Film Academy, I Am China, her Latest work in 2014, was translated and published by Chatto & Windus (UK).Another writer is Sheng Keyi, born in the 1970s, whose many works have been translated and published abroad,including six Long novels Like Northern Girls, Water Milk (Shulru) and Ode to Morality, and many novelettes Like Short Stories of Sheng Keyi, An Inexperienced World, Leave a Room for You. Her novel Austra Lian Eng Lish edition Death Fugue is in the list this year. In 2010, the first Chinese edition of The Three-Body Problem, a science fiction series by Liu Cixin, a Chinese electronics engineer, created quite a stir.The sales volume of each of The Three-Body Problem series is more than 500,000. Its influence in the domestic country soon attracted the attention of European and American publishing world and its overseas copyright was outright sold quickly. It got American sci-fi fans' response soon after the English edition of The Three-Body Problem was published by Tor Books (US).Within Less than one month, 214 copies were collected by Libraries, much more than expected.The New York Times published a remark on it with the title "The Three-Body Problem provides a new flavor for American sci-fi fans". It said,"At present, many sci-fi authors prefer themes of reflecting the real world such as climatic change, gender change, and so on, rather than the traditional plot of alien invasion". In the first volume of The Three-Body Problem, it tells about the contact between terran and three-body civilization.The conflict stories between different civilizations are more popular among American readers.
The promoters of worldwide bestsellers pay attention totranslations of Chinese literature
The translation and publication of Chinese Literature in Europe and America dated from 1970s.Top university presses in Europe and America were the main force with the main purpose of academic research. Therefore,the Chinese Literature mainly had influence in academic,while it was difficult to go into popular Literature reading market. Since the beginning of the new century, some transnational publishing groups have made great efforts in developing Chinese Literature market. Some western Literary agents have paid highly close attention to Chinese promising Literary writers, seeking potential authors with worldwide subjects, which enhances the global influence of contemporary Chinese literature.
Pantheon Books (US), by which two books Listed in the most influential translations in 2014 were published, is a good example. It published Boy in the Twillght: Stories of the Hidden China written by Yu Hua and The Man with Compound Eyes (published in 2011,the second edition in 2014) written by Wu Mingyi (Taiwan), with the copies acquired by Libraries of 443 and 350 respectively. The Pantheon Books (US), affiliated to the Random House,has many world famous authors. It began to pay close attention to contemporary Chinese Literature since a very early time. It successfully contracted with Chinese American author Ha Jin and made him become a world- class Literary author gradually. So far, the Pantheon Books (US) has gained the copyrights of many contemporary Chinese authors' works, including works of Yu Hua, Zhang Xinxin, Mo Yan,Yang Xianhui, Ma Jian and others. Among them, the CODvriahts of Yu Hua's works are the most. Known as "the exclusive publishing house for Nobel prize in Literature", Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (US) (FSG) is another publishing house Like Pantheon Books. Published by the FSG, Decoded written by Mai Jia has 686 copies acquired by Libraries. It broke the record of 670 setting by Red Sorghum written by Mo Yan, the winner of Nobel Prize in Literature.Affiliated to the same publishing group of Pantheon Books, the Doubleday (US) translated and published I Am China written by GuoXiaolu in 2014.The copies of this book acquired by Libraries are 242. Many of worldwide bestseller promoters are among these transnational groups. With the participation of these groups, contemporary Chinese Literature has a relatively wider popularity alL over the worLd. It gradually becomes the most convenient way to read Chinese Literature and to Learn about China.
BOY in the Twillght:Stories of the Hidden China
Yu Hual Writers Publishing House|September 2012 |ISBN: 9787506365345 | ￥25.00
12 short stories of Yu Hua are included inthis book.
The Man with Compound Eyes
Wu Mingyil New Star Press Co., Ltd.|March 2013 |ISBN: 9787513310253 |￥32.00
It tells a sad story about the past and present of an island, and also indicates the future of mankind.There is an island in the vast sea. People on the island hold the belief that the sea is the world, and it is the god who creates the island for them.The second son in every family on the island must put out to sea on the 180th full moon after their birth, and never be allowed to turn round.The juvenile Atelie's fate is caused by the fact of being the second son...
Last Words from Montmartre QiuMiaojin I Guangxi Normal University Press | August 2012 |1SBN: 9787549522644 |￥28.00
It is a Life monologue of a woman saying goodbye to the world. It ana Lyses the Love and beauty,art and life in her heart in detail by applying intense, pure, and passionate words. In the book,the thick description on sexual passion of the fema Le is ba Ld,fra nk, sad and direct.lt is the authentic record of OiuMiaojin's thoughts and experiences before her death. It records the experiences of hope and injury,the process of Love and hurt,even the horrifying description on death.lt can be regarded as the real posthumous papers.This book was edited and published by her friends in the second year after her death, and it made a stir all over Taiwan.
The Bathing Women
Tie Ning |Writers Publishing House| August2013|ISBN: 9787506370189|￥23.00
The protagonist Yin Xiaotiao bears heavy mental burden for her mother's unchastity and her Little sister's accidenta L death. She alienates her mother. Her younger sister Yin Xiaofan always behaves against her; instead of a relative,she behaves Like a rivaLYin Xiaotiao is passionately infatuated with a supersta r, Fang Jing. However, she rea Lizes he is just a Layman who wants gains without giving after she knows more about him; she can't help accepting another man for his pursuit. However, she finds that he has already married when she falls in Love with him.Yin Xiaotiao is growing and Loving,but her heart has been drifting with no proper harbor to stay.