Top China Fiction: March 2009 Chinese Best Sellers

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The list of China's Top 30 best sellers for March 2009 is out, lead by Han Han's A Daydream (他的国), with the top ten also featuring Chinese translations of books from the West such as Bernhard Schlinks' The Reader and Meyer Stephanie's Twilight Journals.

But several of the best sellers are part of a series written in Chinese, such as The Story of Lala's Promotion (two volumes), Soldiers and their Commanders (two), and The Tibet Code, a five-volume classic which still hasn't dropped off the charts.

Comments

# 1.   

You can find China's bestsellers (according to Dangdang, one of the largest online book retailers) here:

http://bang.dangdang.com/book/bestSeller/All/

Isaac Stone Fish, May 19, 2009, 1:08p.m.

# 2.   

Not exactly, Isaac.

The URL you provide will give one a list of Dangdang's best sellers, if I am not mistaken. Dangdang makes no claim to be providing nationwide statistics on that web page.

The URL at the top of this page,however, will give you a list of what China Publishing Today claims is nationwide statistics. I do not know how CPT compiles its list, but it is an industry publication, not a bookseller.

Bruce Humes
www.bruce-humes.com
Chinese Books, English Reviews

Bruce, May 21, 2009, 1:09p.m.

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