About this list

Asia Weekly, 100 Books

In 1999, YaZhou ZhouKan (Asia Weekly, an international current affairs weekly in Chinese based in Hong Kong) made a similar practice as "100 Best Novels by The Modern Library" to summarize the Chinese fiction in 20th century. The ranking gathered the top force of Chinese literature around the world from China Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and North America.

Voters: top force in international Chinese literature (China Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, North America)

who voted:
Yu Qiuyu: essayist, literary critic, former president of Shanghai Theatre Academy; Wang Meng: novelist, former Minister of Culture of China; Wang Xiaoming: literary critic, professor of Chinese Department at East China Normal University in Shanghai; Liu Zaifu: literary theorist, former director of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Xie Mian: literary critic, professor of Chinese Department at Peking University.
Wang Xingqing: also known as Nan Fangshuo, cultural and current affairs critic; Shi Shu: literary critic, professor of Chinese Department at Tamkang University in Taiwan.

This list was originally published in 1999 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.