Chapter 233: A spark can start a prairie fire
"Zhang Chu's works won the championship in Britain and the United States, creating a new era of Chinese writers!"
"Detective Sherlock Jedi Strikes Back, the United States Narrowly Defeats the King of Reasoning!"
Sherlock is sought after in the UK, and readers call it the best fanwork!"
"Rough Report on American Book Sales: Detective Sherlock Stubbornly Snips Night School, and the King Encounters Waterloo!"
"British Media Praises Zhang Chu's Choice in the Times, No. 1 on the New Book List and No. 8 on the Overall List"
"Shenxia successfully broke into the United States, and foreign netizens shouted incredible!"
"Haven't you read this book? It won in both Britain and the United States!"
The news has been prepared for a long time, and as soon as the data here is updated, it will be released, and the media are undisciplined, and they are actually ready to have two sets of scripts.
If it is Shenxia's defeat, then to put it another way, anyway, there is one that can only exist in the recycle bin.
This is indeed exciting news, how many writers have hit their heads in the European and American markets, even the super gods who can sell tens of millions of copies in China can only leave in the critical eyes of European and American readers!
Now, Zhang Chu's works are so powerful that even many overseas Chinese can't help but help buy them, even if they don't watch them, they have to buy them to boost sales.
The early morning in the United States happened to be the afternoon in China, and I was originally very tired from work or class on Monday, but as soon as the news came out, countless netizens seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, drowsy at all, and resurrected in a state full of blood.
"Awesome my brother!"
"It's so strong, it's actually crowned!"
"I knew Juan Fu and Watson wouldn't disappoint. ”
"As a fan of Zhang Chu, I am so happy, I can see new books almost every one or two months, and there is also this good news. It's just a prestige for our country!"
"Finally won, for the championship of Zhang Chuda, he said that he would eat soil this month. Not to mention buying "Journey to the West Diary", I also bought a copy of "Sherlock" on Amazon in the United Kingdom and the United States to boost sales. It's so expensive to buy books in foreign countries!! a book costs more than a hundred, not counting the postage!!"
"Based in Los Angeles, we conducted a joint promotion with the National Association of Collegiate Reasoning, and it seems that the effect is quite good. ”
"Thank you for the handsome guy upstairs for your help, you guys have paid too much~"
The triumph of a new book is never so simple, not only mystery and detective enthusiasts are reading this book, but also the study abroad party has organized propaganda again and again.
Many readers in China have obviously read it, but in order for "Sherlock" to be successful, they do not hesitate to directly exchange RMB for pounds or US dollars, and go to foreign online bookstores to order physical books and e-books for support.
Zhang Chu's number of fans can't complete such a difficult thing at all, many of them are spontaneous behaviors of netizens, and now it seems that they have gained a lot!
There has never been a work whose original work is in Chinese, and after being translated into English, it can reach the top of the two major countries of Britain and the United States at the same time, and there has never been even a unilateral top!
The cultural differences are huge, and it's possible that readers here won't buy it at all.
Many people think that everything will be fine in the past, and even hope that the pure Chinese version and non-translated works can be on the list, which is simply whimsical.
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"Won?"
Zhang Chu's Tencent News pushed by WeChat was a little stunned, he knew that his agency was building momentum on United TV and other media.
It's just that the gap with "Night School" was really big at the beginning, but I didn't expect that in the past two days, I not only caught up, but even surpassed!
Now it seems that all these various actions actually had a considerable effect, after all, the publishers of "Night School" did not sit still, and there were also a variety of news and book reviews.
But the arm didn't twist the thigh, and the two behemoths of BBC and CBS were boosting behind, even if there was only a trace of waves, it was a storm for the two new books!
"It's good to win the championship, so you don't have to worry about it all day long. ”
He was in a good state of mind, he didn't jump up with joy, he didn't run around the playground with yelling, he just clenched his fists and celebrated in his heart.
If his first book was not "Sherlock", but "Psychological Crime" or "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", it would not have opened the European and American markets at all.
Now, after opening up the market with the works of Sherlock Holmes fandom, at least a small number of readers can be cultivated, and these readers are the spark.
In the future, whether it is Zhang Chu's new works or the works of other Chinese writers, these sparks can ignite a spark, and then converge into a prairie fire!
That's right, Zhang Chu is still in the process of cultivating readers, if he doesn't cultivate a few irons in Europe and the United States, no one will read the stories with Chinese backgrounds in the future.
At least a few people can help promote it, it is not realistic to expect overseas Chinese or overseas students for a long time, and if you want to really break into European and American culture, you have to conquer their locals!
In fact, young people nowadays are very receptive to the culture of all countries in the world, and Chinese culture has always been relatively mysterious.
It is impossible for many writers to expect foreign young people to read traditional literature, and even young people in their own country do not read those pure literary works, okay?
How many young people on the planet have seen "Red Sorghum"?
It is estimated that I haven't watched one-tenth or one percent of "Breaking the Sky".
How many people have heard of Jia Pingwa's "Polar Flower", how many people know Yan Lianke, and how many people know who the author of "White Deer Plain" is?
The fig leaf of traditional literature is not overseas sales, but overseas library collections, after all, few readers actually buy books, all of them advertise how many libraries have collected their works.
But what is the time for young people to go to the library to borrow books now?
What about the number of borrowings after the library has collected them? Do they dare to publish them?
Even in terms of the number of global libraries, the number of libraries that collect "The Three-Body Problem" has exceeded 1,000, which is higher than the number of Mo Yan's works.
Times are changing, the original old routine actually doesn't work, Zhang Chu never thought of becoming a serious literary writer directly, but wanted to take the curve to save the country.
Write popular literature first, accumulate readers all over the world, and then slowly transform, so that the influence will be much greater!
In Zhang Chu's view, there is no shortage of good literature and literary masters in China now, but there is a lack of respect for literature and propaganda of literature.
Literature and science are indeed of little use. But perhaps the greatest usefulness of literature is that it is useless.
The time is still long, the road is still long, Zhang Chu is also young, there is no need to worry, he is also ready to slowly improve his level to the same level as those big names in the literary world, which is even more powerful to gather sand into a tower!