Of tombs, traps and the intrepid

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/weekly/2012-08/03/content_15641935.htm

Conducted under the cover of darkness, grave robbery is a dirty (both spiritually and physically) and highly illegal profession. Yet it has become wildly popular in China, thanks to a couple of pulp serials: Grave Robbers' Chronicles (《盗墓笔记》Dàomù bǐjì) and Ghost Blows Out the Light (《鬼吹灯》Guǐ chuīdēng). Published over the past decade, these adventure-horror series have quickly become known as the Indiana Jones stories of China - only with fewer fedoras and bullwhips, and more Mao caps and feng shui compasses.

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