Best of times for Chinese books?
By Yang Guang and Mei Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-23 07:54
Opinion is divided on the state of contemporary literature. Yang Guang and Mei Jia report
Chinese writers are enjoying the best time for writing and living, declared former Culture Minister Wang Meng in a speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair last October.
He said that the country now has some 100 literary journals and that more than 1,000 novels are published each year.
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