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Chinanews, Beijing, Aug 14 – Recently, Hou Kai, a man selling books at Yueduji Publishing House, has quite a busy time. Every month, he has published about 4-5 bestsellers on average. So far, his company, which has only operated for one year and seven months now, has published 36 books, with most of them being books about concubines of feudal1 Chinese emperors. All books of this kind are profitable. Some are being made into TV series.
In 2004, Hong Kong's Television Broadcasting Limited presented a TV drama, War and Beauty, to celebrate the founding of the TV station. The TV drama soon became all the rage throughout Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and other regions where Chinese people lived. After this, books that describe strife2 among concubines of the royal harem and stories about their love and hatred3 widely spread on the Internet. Books about this topic sell like hot cakes in the market and many more springing up. Salespeople4 claim that all these books are more exciting than War and Beauty. However, some scholars begin to express their concern about the popularity of these books. They fear that by reading concubine stories, young women today might want to live like those concubines themselves. They might be obsessed5 with the heroine's life that is always characterized by a melancholy6 mood, lack of self-confidence and respect, and a wish to be admired by the emperor. Influenced by these heroines, young women in today's society might also want to find a man to rely on, these scholars say. In the long run, this might greatly alter Chinese women's personality. To Hou Kai, however, he doesn't worry too much about this issue. “Our readers are mostly young women aged7 between 18 and 35. They have a strong self-consciousness. Since they face much more pressure in their work and their life than women decades ago, they want to be acknowledged, praised, and taken care of by others. However, for most of the time, their psychological needs can not be met. So, many young women say 'I'm excellent, yet no one recognizes me,'” Hou Kai asserted. He admitted that the popular sale of his books indicates that these books reflect the mentality8 of this covey of young women. Hou hates people to categorize these books as concubine stories. Rather, he sees them as books that reveal how people living in modern society observed their ancestors living in the past. These books teach modern women how to communicate with people around them. “I think our books have more positive than negative significance. If we can, we might want to publish all books that describe women's life living in different dynasties, ” Hou said.
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