12 January 2015
Zhang Jiajia's work strikes a chord with Chinese readers, who no longer want to "be lectured."
On the list were 50 Chinese writers who made more than 1 million yuan in royalties last year.
Among them were Nobel prize winner Mo Yan, who came at #13 with earnings of 6.5 million; "Established writers" Yu Hua and Jia Pingwa "respectively took 33rd with 2.65 million yuan and 47th with 1.5 million;" and YA authors Han Han and Guo Jingming came in 6th and 7th place, with earnings of 15 million yuan and 13 million yuan.
The paper reports that the authors on the list fall roughly into three categories: "established writers of serious literature, writers of online literature, and popular reading and children's writers."
