Top 10 highest earning Chinese authors
http://www.china.org.cn/top10/2016-03/31/content_38151453.htm
The tenth of its kind, the ranking is based on the authors' copyright royalties from book sales from December 2014 to December 2015. A total of 70 authors are on the list.
- Yang Zhi(杨治)Pen name: Jiang Nan(江南)
- Leon Image(雷欧幻像)(pen name)
- Zheng Yuanjie(郑渊洁)
- Yang Hongying(杨红缨)
- Yan Bing(鄢冰)Pen name: Da Bing(大冰)
- Xu Lei(徐磊)Pen name: Nanpai Sanshu(南派三叔)
- Zhang Jiajia(张嘉佳)
- Jiang Shengnan(蒋胜男)
- Shen Shixi(沈石溪)
- Chen Sixuan(陈思玄)Pen name: Xuan Se(玄色)
Comments
Complete list of all 70 (in Chinese) available here:
http://zuojiafuhaobang.com/rangking/list?n=10&t=25
Interesting: Liu Cixin missed being included in the top 10 by 1 mil, and Jin Yong is #17 despite not having written a new work since The Sword of Yue Maiden in 1970. Average age is 45 or 46 and 7 of the top 70 were born in Beijing, vs 3 from Shanghai (and 2 from Tianjin, 0 from Chongqing).
Nick Stember, July 4, 2016, 5:56p.m.
Actually, just redid the math, average age should be 43 or 44. That's also heavily skewed by some older outliers near the top (like Jin Yong) though--about half the authors are between 22 and 36, with one fifth between 36 and 50, and slightly less than that between 50 and 64.
Nick Stember, July 4, 2016, 6:29p.m.
Children's literature is doing well!
Anna Gustafsson Chen, July 4, 2016, 9:51p.m.
Is there a top earning translators list?
Here's an interesting story
of how a project of publishing and translating started ... ( copied over from police.com.cn...oopse...)
susan, July 6, 2016, 7:32p.m.