Ignoring the critics, millions of Guo’s fans swarmed into cinemas in robust defence of their idol. Guo’s works, including The City of Fantasies and the Tiny Times series, feature matinee idol-like...
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Guo Jingming
Born in 1983 in Zigong, Sichuan Province, Guo Jingming is a popular Chinese writer and publisher of young adult fiction and comic books. He won various youth literary awards when a teenager and became one of the youngest members of the official China Writers' Association in 2007. He is also believed to be one of China's richest writers.
16 Jan 2012
He calls himself a 'mainland version of the American dream'. And that's just what he is.
Guo Jingming is a self-made young man from poor circumstances who now tops the 2011 Rich List...
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8 Jan 2012
He calls himself a 'mainland version of the American dream', a self-made kid from poor circumstances who now tops the 2011 Rich List for Chinese writers, with royalties last year alone of 24.5...
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14 Nov 2007
Deng Xiaoping's famous exhortation, 'to get rich is glorious', has been unofficially superseded on the mainland. Today, the mantra is 'greed is good' - from the 1987 movie Wall Street, which...
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11 Nov 2004
THE SCENE COULD run something like this: a group of Shanghai University students gather in a cafeteria on Monday morning to discuss what they did over the weekend.
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