Recently, according to British media reports, Chinese online literature works were included in the Chinese collection of British Library , one of the world's largest academic libraries, for the first time. There are a total of 16 online literary works, including " Son-in-law ", "Heart Surveying", " Earth Era ", " First Sequence ", " Great Power Industry ", " Great Doctor Ling Ran ", "Painting Spring" " The Wisdom of Song Dynasty ", "Zhenguan Great Idlers", "Shen Zang", "Road to Revival", "Zhou Lin", "Magic Rivers and Lakes", "On the Dome", "The Great Lawyer" and "Palm Huan".
The British Library is one of the largest academic libraries in the world, with a collection of about 14 million books, famous collections include the original manuscript of " Alice in Wonderland ", Mozart's musical manuscript, Shakespeare The first pair of works folio etc. There are 16 Chinese online literature works in the same library, and the collection includes more than 450 pieces of Chinese oracle bones , as well as the "Diamond Sutra", which is considered to be the earliest extant complete printed book in the world.
According to the public information of the British Library, the British Library will select works for its collection according to the needs of readers and the value contribution of the books themselves, that is, books that readers will want to read now, and books that have epochal significance for the history of human literature for a long time in the future. of book works. In addition, the British Library also welcomes collections that provide insight into the history, art and culture of a country or region. The selection of these 16 works of online literature into the British Library's Chinese collection shows that online literature itself is becoming an important contemporary cultural phenomenon and content product. From the perspective of content, these 16 works not only include science fiction, history, reality, fantasy and other Internet literature themes, but also cover the classic works of Internet literature from the early days to the present for more than 20 years. Among them, "Great Powers and Heavy Industry" can be regarded as a beautiful picture of Chinese industry. This is a novel describing the hard work of several generations of Chinese industrialists to promote the rise of China's industrial development. The works included in the collection of the British Library this time, Qi Orange , the author of "Big Country Heavy Industry", believes that "Chinese online literature can go abroad and go to the world, which means that our works can influence foreign readers and attract more foreign readers. Learn about China."
Currently, these 16 works are included in the British Library's Chinese collection catalogue. The public can inquire about the work information on the British Library's official website, and local readers can also go to the British Library Chinese Library to borrow physical books , Chinese readers can read these works through the Qidian Reading APP.
In recent years, more and more online literature works have been collected by libraries. In 2019, 10 online literary works including "The Great Power Industry" and "Jian Ye" were collected by Shanghai Library; 144 online literary works including "The Lord of Mysteries" and "Breaking the Sky" were collected in Tibet from 2020 to 2022. Library . Online literature has become an important force in promoting national reading. It not only has a huge audience of readers, but also provides increasingly classic high-quality content, injecting new vitality into national reading. In the overseas dissemination of
, online literature has also made progress and breakthroughs. It is reported that the online literature platform Reading Group has authorized the digital and physical publication of more than 800 online literature works in overseas countries. "The Lord of Mysteries" and "Douluo Continent" and other online literature and their adaptations are popular overseas.
