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Amazon reveals translated books that influenced China
    2019-01-10  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

AMAZON China recently released the final list of “the 25 influential translated works of the last 40 years,” as the country marks the 40th anniversary of the reform and opening up.

The 25 books were chosen based on an online poll.

The list includes classical novels, such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Moon and Sixpence” by Somerset Maugham, “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen, “Gone With the Wind” by Margret Mitchell, “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The bestsellers in social sciences include “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword” by Ruth Benedict, “A Global History” by Leften Stavrianos, the recent “A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari and “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” by Peter Frankopan, and popular-science books include “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking and “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics” by Carlo Rovelli.

Most of the rest are recent best-selling novels, such as “The Century Trilogy” by Ken Follett, “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng, “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini and “Miracles of the Namiya General Store” by Keigo Higashino.

Chinese publishers Yilin Press, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, Commercial Press, Citic Press and Xiron Publishing, among others, recommended the titles for the list before Amazon China conducted the vote on xinhuanet.com and Amazon-owned social platforms. More than 16,000 people voted online for influential works of the last 40 years.

“The result is especially great for me,” Chinese writer Su Tong said at Amazon China’s annual ceremony.

His novella, “Raise the Red Lantern,” has been translated into many languages, including English, French and Italian, and has been adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie of the same title, directed by Zhang Yimou.

“The list includes great writers like Marquez, Salinger and Austen. They are, in young people’s words, ‘godlike beings.’ Marquez, for example, has been a lighthouse for not only me but also for writers born in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s,” Su says, adding that Marquez’s influence on him transcends diction, narration and characterization.

Amazon China also released other lists of best-selling printed books and electronic books based on the company’s sales in 2018.

Data by Amazon China show that Chinese readers this year paid more attention to books on business and money, and comics such as “Banxiaoshi Manhua Shijieshi” (“Caricatured World’s History”) and “Biaoren” (“The Escort”) were popular as well as classics.

Ray Dalio’s “Principles: Life and Work” topped three best-selling lists: printed books, electronic books and printed books published in 2018. Apart from “Principles,” three more books on business and money made the best-selling list of printed books published in 2018.

At an age when people’s time is fragmented, humorous comic books that are easy to read have become an important way for readers to use their time. As a result, the best-selling lists of printed books published in 2018 and of electronic books have three comic books each, including the first two volumes of “Caricatured World’s History.” These books were the most likely to be finished by Chinese readers in 2018, Amazon China says.

In 2018, Chinese readers were also very keen on reading classics, such as “The Moon and Sixpence” and “Six Chapters of a Floating Life” by Shen Fu from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), “To Live” by Yu Hua, and “The Stranger” by Albert Cumus, the company adds.

(China Daily)

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