{"id":1007,"date":"2009-03-28T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/2009\/03\/28\/online-novels-boom-in-china\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T20:05:05","slug":"online-novels-boom-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/28\/online-novels-boom-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Novels Boom in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chuban.qidian.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/qidiancover.jpg\" \/><\/a>In China, there&#8217;s a revolution in online novels.&nbsp; Writers are uploading their books to be read by millions of Chinese readers who pay a small amount for each book.&nbsp; The leading company offering online novels in China is Shanda Literature.&nbsp; Their site, <a href=\"http:\/\/chuban.qidian.com\/\">Qidian.com<\/a>, is the most popular destination for novel readers.&nbsp; Even regular bookstores are now offering print versions of online novels.&nbsp; Apparently, the online universe is China is relatively free of censorship and authors find themselves with more freedom to criticize.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/BUSINESS\/02\/14\/china.publishing\/index.html\">CNN article<\/a> about the online publishing boom in China.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=c18d69ab-043b-8755-9588-14839fed5f15\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, there&#8217;s a revolution in online novels.&nbsp; Writers are uploading their books to be read by millions of Chinese readers who pay a small amount for each book.&nbsp; The leading company offering online novels in China is Shanda Literature.&nbsp; Their site, Qidian.com, is the most popular destination for novel readers.&nbsp; Even regular bookstores are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,117],"tags":[2495,121,120,2496],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-online-literature","tag-china","tag-novel","tag-online","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}