On Tuesday, the 2016 China Writers Rich List was released by West China Metropolis Daily and Great Star Media, offering the 70 top royalty-grossing Chinese writers in the year 2015.
Their income from print books ranged from 32 million yuan ($4.93 million) on the top to 1 million yuan.
Though some doubted the figures are inaccurate, others said the list shows reading trends in the country: fantasy, children's books, chicken-soup-for-the-soul type of books are popular and young readers are the majority of print book consumers.
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Writer Jiang Nan. [Photo provided to China Daily] |
Jiang Nan, 32 million yuan
Jiang Nan, 39, whose real name Yang Zhi, pursued higher learning at Peking University and Washington University in St. Louis before becoming a writer and running a business. He started writing online and is known for a 2002 book based on his experiences at Peking University, There They Were, which was later turned into a movie. He made for himself a bigger name and bigger fortune with a fantasy series.
Representative works:
There They Were
Eagle Flag series
Dragon series
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