Fine harvest for farmers of fiction

An unprecedented year for burgeoning literary talent has yielded a profitable harvest for publishers. Mei Jia reports.

In terms of the creation of literature, both critics and publishers can agree that 2017 was a busy year, and one also filled with achievements, judging by the number and quality of literary works published in journals and as individual titles.

"Realism continues to be a trend, and writers are concerned mostly about issues regarding social reality and people's livelihoods," one industry insider says.