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那些年，我們一起追的女孩 You're The Apple Of My Eye by 九把刀 Giddens Ko

 

Information about the author:

> Born on 25 August 1978 in Changhua County, Taiwan, Ko grew up as the second of three sons in Changhua, where his parents own a pharmacy. Ko discovered his love of writing when he penned a story as part of his university application. He started writing fiction in 1999, and posted most of his first works on the Internet. Ko struggled through the first five years of his writing career, before branching out into multiple genres, namely horror, science fiction, and romance.

Sourced from: Giddens Ko on Wikipedia

 

Information about the book:

> 國中生柯景騰成績很差而且調皮搗蛋，班主任於是想出一個辦法來提高他的成績和管束他，把他託付給成績優秀的女生沈佳儀來管理。沈佳儀的管制和約束，使得柯景騰的成績步步高升，越來越好，同時柯景騰也愛上了這個成績優秀、長相美麗的女生。

> Secondary school student Ko Ching-tung is a troublemaker with terrible grades. To deal with this, his teacher comes up with a way to increase his grades and keep him in check: by placing him under the supervision of honour student Shen Chia-yi. Under Shen Chia-yi's supervision, Ko Ching-tung's grades gradually improve. Over the course of all this, Ko Ching-tung also begins to fall in love with the beautiful honour student.

Sourced from (with slight edits made to remove spoilers): 那些年，我們一起追的女孩 (書籍) on Wikipedia

 

Novel:

Fan-transcribed Traditional Chinese E-book

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According to some news articles, his books have been removed from shelves in Mainland China due to his support for the Sunflower Student Movement and Occupy Central.

 

Additional Notes:

• In case not already clear, the novel is semi-autobiographical
  
  
• A film adaptation directed by Giddens Ko was released in 2011

呐喊 - 鲁迅

> Published in 1922 by Lu Xun, one of the greatest writers in 20th-century Chinese literature. This collection of short stories is one of the first and most influential modern works written in vernacular Chinese and would become part of the New Culture Movement.

> Includes Lu Xun's most famous and influential stories:
呐喊 自序Preface to Call to Arms
狂人日记 A Madman’s Diary
孔乙己Kong Yiji
药 Medicine
明天 Tomorrow
一件小事 An Incident
头发的故事 The Story of Hair
风波 Storm in a Teacup
故乡 Hometown
阿Ｑ正传 The True Story of Ah Q
端午节 The Double Fifth Festival
白光 The White Light
兔和猫 The Rabbits and the Cat
鸭的喜剧 The Comedy of the Ducks
社戏 Village Opera

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I count ~82000 characters total and 2742 unique characters.

This collection is divided into a lot of short stories. I read Kong Yiji which is a very easy read. The "Madman's Diary" starts with a short introduction in classical Chinese (so... very hard to read) but the rest is in vernacular Chinese. Since the work of Lu Xun is very popular it's very easy to find analysis and translations a bit everywhere.

糖 by 棉棉

Inspired from a post from /r/chinabookclub

> Candy, Mian Mian

> Originally written in Chinese, Candy tells the semi-autobiographical tale of two disillusioned, heroin-addicted teenagers. When narrator Hong’s Shanghai classmate commits suicide, she drops out of school and moves south to Shenzhen, where she falls in love with a musician and succumbs to an endless cycle of sex and drugs. Mian Mian does not try to glamorize drug use, instead, she weaves raw experiences together with her signature compassionate voice. This book is banned in China.

• link to epub
  
• book in English on Amazon with mixed reviews
  
  Total characters 137.700