China will have to get used to that small scale abroad; back home their numbers are enviable. Commercial Press’s literature subsidiary had 400 new titles last year alone. Every book by their No. 1 author, Jia Pingwa, garners sales in excess of 400,000 copies, while Cao Wenxuan’s series of kids’ books have sold eight million copies. Cao’s Bronze and Sunflower, published this year will be his first in English. (A bestseller in Canada can be somewhere north of 5,000 copies.)