Guo Jingming

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Guo Jingming (郭敬明) (b. June 6, 1983) is a Chinese author. His books are popular among young people in China, and he is currently the best-selling writer in the country.^[1] Guo is currently studying as a university student in Shanghai and has published 5 books so far.^{[citation needed]} Also he is now the editor of the magazine 'I5LAND'.

Guo's first book is called 'Huan Cheng' (literally meaning 'The City of Fantasies'), which was first published as a series on the magazine 'Meng Ya'. It caused a great impact on the public and this is what made Guo famous.^{[citation needed]} The next few books from him were also successful until later, in December 2004, a court in Beijing ruled one of his novel 'Meng Li Hua Luo Zhi Duo Shao' ('Never Flowers in Never Dreams', according to English subtitle on the book) as a plagiarization of another novel 'Quan Li Quan Wai' (Inside and Outside the Circle) by a writer caller 'Zhuang Yu'. And Guo was fined ¥200000. ($25000 approx.) From that time, the views on him began to diverge. Some still think that he is a writer with great potential and ability, while others argue that he is simply a product of the commercialized society.

His three books were accused of plagiarism: "City of Fantasy" was copied from Clamp's RG Veda, his 2nd book was copied from a Chinese novel and even his redemption book, about a boy who copied books, based his characters and used entire dialogues based on Ai Yazawa's Nana.