The eponymous TV program broadcasted on CCTV has become a hot topic over the past year. Readers aims to bring back people's love of books in amidst of the bustling world of business and entertainment and encourage them to appreciate the subtle beauty of literature hidden in the books on everyone's desk. Readers has planned to establish Reading Pavilions in many cities across China, in order for the general public to participate in the reading aloud of beautiful passages. Till now it has already been founded in Beijing and Guangzhou, will be expanded to many more cities in the country. To date, hundreds of millions of people have participated in the reading aloud events, making it one of the most popular cultural events in 2017.
The content of the foreign editions of Readers, published by the People's Literature Publishing House of CPGC, will be based on the English edition, with 14 specially selected Chinese contemporary authors and book promoters out of the original 94 classic pieces. The book itself is a perfect advertisement for Chinese modern classics to the whole world, and rights deal with many countries has got the support from the New World Publishing House.
During the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair, Dong Qing will be attending several cultural events, including the talks with the award-winning German writer David Wagner, sinologist Karin Betz and Chinese novelist Mai Jia, etc. in the Goethe University Frankfurt, Thalia bookshop and the Confucius Institute of Berlin.
(translated by Xiao Jianpeng)