https://www.scmp.com/rss/199888/feed 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. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com 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 for Chinese writers. His royalties last year alone were 24.5million yuan (HK$30 million). Critics call Guo's writing overly commercial and self-involved. Yet to his young fans, the 28-year-old writes about their lives with sensitivity in a polished style. Guo says he has a loyal readership of between two and three... https://www.scmp.com/article/990312/pop-writer-starry-eyed-teens?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/990312/pop-writer-starry-eyed-teens?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000 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 million yuan (HK$30 million). Critics call Guo Jingming's writing overly commercial and narcissistic. But to his young fans, the 28-year-old writes about their lives with sensitivity, in a melancholy, polished style. Guo estimates he has a loyal readership of between two and three million, mostly aged... https://www.scmp.com/article/989546/mainland-material-boy-writing-dream?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/989546/mainland-material-boy-writing-dream?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Deng Xiaoping's famous exhortation, 'to get rich is glorious', has been unofficially superseded on the mainland.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 came to epitomise the 1980s in the west. The downside of that decade's feverish pursuit of money was a rise in social inequality and increasing cynicism about governments and state institutions. No doubt that is familiar to anyone living on the mainland now. The decade which gave us yuppies is in the... https://www.scmp.com/article/615489/age-confusion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/615489/age-confusion?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:00:00 +0000 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. If one of them quizzed classmate Guo Jingming, they might get the following reply: 'I flew to three different cities to promote my books. And I had to sign thousands of copies both days until my arm was too tired to write any more.' On the mainland, 21-year-old Guo is as hot as Taiwanese singing superstar Jay Chou Jielun. On... https://www.scmp.com/article/477686/lonely-guy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/477686/lonely-guy?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:00:00 +0000