different people have different interest...you can buy most books here..www.amazon.cn and www.dangdang.com also network literature are some novels published online search for 起点中文网 www.qidian.com 新浪阅读 腾讯阅读...you can read many chinese books online for free

I I strongly recommend Geli Yan's novella,She's a Chinese living in America for many years. And Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club,Amy is an ABC and for growing up in America she describe somehow her story about her mother(who is an utter authentic Chinese) adopting Her.

I didnt kown it before. But according to your description, I think they should have some in common. As far as I know, there is no such English version. These works are not professionally published, since many formal literary works written by famous writters have not been translated into English, it is unlikely for these grassroot works to get translated.

Ahh like fan fiction? Do you know what that is? People who might love a particular movie, and may like to write, might write their own story based in that movie world. Is that sort of what it's like? Do you know if there's any English translations of the network literature you mentioned? I would be curious to read some - properly translated, not from a web translator which is horrible!

Hehe, network literature is the literal translation of the Chinese word "网络文学", it's a kind of grassroot literature. Everyone can be a writer, and the works are on various levels. There are some successful works that have large audience. When I am on a bus or subway, I always see many people staring at their cell phone, and a good many of them are reading novels downloaded from internet, and among them, in my opinion, girls are in the majority. I think many of these works do not have any realistic significance, so I think most of their audience take them as a pastime after stressful working-hours. This is my personal opinion, may be partial, prejudiced or immature. :D To be honest, I think many people dont read book, the young are too busy with their school works, and many adults just dont read.