Dedicate to Spreading the Beauty of Chinese Literature
Founded in March 2015, through the merger of Tencent Reading and the former Shengda Literature, China Literature now owns multiple renowned reading platforms including qidian.com and QQ reading. With hundreds of millions of users, it has become the leader in China’s online literature industry.
China Literature attaches great importance to spreading China’s online literature to other countries. Since the beginning of the 21st century, China Literature has embarked on the journey of expanding overseas markets, looking to deliver high-quality online literature outside China. Today, China’s online literature has become popular in North America, South and East Asia, Japan, Korea, and beyond. There was once a Spirit Blade Mountain is a popular story produced by China Literature and was the first online literature to be made as an animation in China. In 2016, it was aired on the Tokyo MX channel, setting records among China’s animation series that have been broadcast in Japan and marking a key first step for the international emergence of Chinese animation.
In order to create a friendly reading experience for overseas readers, webnovel.com – the international version of Qidian.com, developed by China Literature – was formally launched on May 15, 2017. Through webnovel.com, a large variety of high-quality and popular online literature in China can now be accessed by readers throughout the world. In turn, this ensures that overseas readers can engage with and get to know China’s online literature and Chinese culture at first hand. At the same time, webnovel.com is also committed to enriching these high-quality online stories in a variety of formats so that it can achieve important interactions throughout the online journey. For example, the English version of the fashionable story The King's Avatar has been updated to more than 800 chapters at webnovel.com and has been sought after by a large number of overseas readers. At present, webnovel.com has launched more than 100 novels under categories such as fantasy, Wuxia, science fiction and gaming, and has been visited by more than 4 million users. In addition to English novels, webnovel.com is also working towards launching literature in Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, Russian and other languages to enrich its contents and attract more users.
Picture: Promotional poster of The King’s Avatar
In the future, China Literature will continue to "introduce China’s online literature to other countries" and use its platforms to showcase Chinese literature and culture to a global audience.