Full List of Top 30 richest Chinese writers:
Rank | Writer | Royalty Income (US$ Million) | Best Seller |
1 | Guo Jingming 郭敬明 | 3.86 | "Tiny Times" series |
2 | Nanpai Sanshu (penname) 南派三叔 | 2.49 | "The Graver Robbers' Chronicles" |
3 | Zheng Yuanjie 鄭淵潔 | 1.89 | "Pipilu" series |
4 | Yang Hongying 楊紅櫻 | 1.73 | "Naughty Boy Ma Xiaotiao" |
5 | Annie Baby (penname) 安妮寶貝 | 1.48 | "Spring Banquet" |
6 | Jiang Nan (penname) 江南 | 1.24 | "Dragon Raja" |
7 | Han Han 韓寒 | 0.94 | "Youth" |
8 | Dangnian Mingyue (penname) 當(dāng)年明月 | 0.91 | "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty" series |
9 | Larry H.P. Lang 郎咸平 | 0.76 | "Larry H.P. Lang Says" series |
10 | Kevin Tsai 蔡康永 | 0.71 | "Kevin Tsai's Way of Speaking" |
11 | Jin Yinan 金一南 | 0.63 | "Sufferings and Glories" |
12 | Song Hongbing 宋鴻兵 | 0.6 | "The Currency Wars" series |
13 | Wang Shuzeng 王樹增 | 0.47 | "The War of Liberation" |
14 | Tong Hua 桐華 | 0.46 | "Startling by Each Step" |
15 | He Ma 何馬 | 0.41 | "The Tibet Code" |
16 | Bai Yansong 白巖松 | 0.38 | "Are You Happy Now?" |
17 | Xiaoqiao Laoshu(penname) 小橋老樹 | 0.37 | "Hou Weidong's Official Diary" |
18 | Liu Xinwu 劉心武 | 0.36 | "Sequel to A Dream of Red Mansions (Liu Xinwu's Edition)" |
19 | Louis Cha 金庸 | 0.35 | "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" |
20 | Cai Jun 蔡駿 | 0.34 | "Murder of Things Past" |
21 | Li Ke 李可 | 0.33 | Last book of the "Du Lala's Promotions" series: "It's All about Dreams" |
22 | Xu Kaizhen 許開禎 | 0.3 | "Craving Official Positions" |
23 | Jiang Rong 姜戎 | 0.28 | "Wolf Totem" |
24 | Yue Nan 岳南 | 0.28 | "In Between the North and South" |
25 | Di An 笛安 | 0.27 | "Xijue" |
26 | Liu Zhenyun 劉震云 | 0.25 | "A Sentence is Worth Thousands" |
27 | Yu Dan 于丹 | 0.24 | "Yu Dan Tasting Life" |
28 | Jiang Pingwa 賈平凹 | 0.21 | "Old Furnace" |
29 | Cang Yue(penname) 滄月 | 0.2 | "Feathers" |
30 | Zhang Wei 張煒 | 0.16 | "On the Plateau" |