- Guo Jingming
Guo Jingming (郭敬明) (born
June 6 ,1983 ) is a Chinese author. His books are popular among young people in China, and he is currently the best-selling writer in the country. [Jin Bo, [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/14/content_512221.htm Report Reveals Best-Selling Writers] , "China Daily ", 14-15 January 2006] Guo is currently studying as a university student inShanghai and has published 5 books so far.Fact|date=July 2007 Also he is now the editor of the magazine 'I5LAND'.Guo's first book is called 'Huan Cheng' (literally meaning 'The City of Fantasies'), which was first published as a series on the magazine 'Meng Ya'. It caused a great impact on the public and this is what made Guo famous.Fact|date=July 2007 The next few books from him were also successful until later, in December 2004, a court in Beijing ruled one of his novel 'Meng Li Hua Luo Zhi Duo Shao' ('Never Flowers in Never Dreams', according to English subtitle on the book) as a plagiarization of another novel 'Quan Li Quan Wai' (Inside and Outside the Circle) by a writer caller 'Zhuang Yu'. And Guo was fined ¥200000. ($25000 approx.) From that time, the views on him began to diverge. Some still think that he is a writer with great potential and ability, while others argue that he is simply a product of the commercialized society.
His three books were accused of plagiarism: "City of Fantasy" from Clamp's
RG Veda , his 2nd book from a Chinese novel and his redemption book, about a boy who copied books, based his characters was accused of using dialogues fromAi Yazawa 's Nana.In addition to, It was said that Guo was a gay when he was studying in his high school.
References
External links
* [http://blog.sina.com.cn/guojingming Guo Jingming's Blog]
* [http://www.china.org.cn/english/NM-e/106691.htm Guo Jingming Succeeds in "City of Fantasy"]
* [http://www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Dec/114345.htm Bestselling Novelist Must Pay Up for Plagiarism]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/books/review/King-t.html?_r=1&ref=review&oref=slogin NYT-article about Guo Jingming]"ThisChinese writer -related article is a . You can Wikipedia by [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guo_Jingming&action=edit] ".
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