Publishers eyeing a hat-trick of successes

Chinese publishers are seeking a hat-trick - hoping their books this year will replicate the extraordinary success of two Chinese works in international markets last year.

One of them was by President Xi Jinping and the other by science fiction writer Liu Cixin.

Of the 5.36 million copies of Xi's The Governance of China, 400,000 were sold overseas, while Liu's The Three-Body Problem won him the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Novel last year, making him the first Asian writer to claim the prize.