He Ma, author of the wildly best-selling Tibet Code, ranks 28th among the Top 30 in the just-released (unofficial) list of China’s Richest Authors. . .

A RMB millionaire he may now be, but He Ma—a Han from Sichuan who has reportedly spent nearly a decade exploring Tibet, including three years in Lhasa—appears to be one of the unnamed targets of a Nov 27 article by Gao Yujie in the Tibet Daily trashing much of the fiction published during the so-called “Tibet craze” that has swept the popular literary scene over the last few years. . .