Chinese cultural products can compete on their own merits

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, US-based e-commerce company Amazon is negotiating with Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin to purchase the copyright of his science fiction book The Three Body Problem, with the intention of adapting it into a three-season TV drama with an estimated investment of $1 billion. Thepaper.cn comments:

The Three Body Problem is one of the few domestic science fiction books that has gained popularity both in China and overseas. Data show that by the end of 2015, about one year after being published, the first volume of the English version of Liu's book had already sold 110,000 copies worldwide.

The book has got quite high ratings. Liu even won the 2015 Hugo Award with the book, the first Asian writer to win the award. With the award, The Three Body Problem is widely believed to have joined the ranks of world science fiction classics.