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Japanese historical novels are hot this year, and the market prefers Japanese historical novels by Japanese writers. Japanese historical novels by Ryotaro Shiba, Yamaoka Sōhachi and Kogoro of Haiyin Temple were introduced on a large scale, among which the iconic work was Tokugawa Ieyasu, with a volume of 13 and 5.5 million words. The subculture of computer game fans can also become mainstream reading materials.
But Chen has no reason to explain why it is not hot. A Chinese writer living in Japan, whose History of China has influenced Japan for nearly 50 years. Do domestic readers think that reading a Japanese writer who writes about shogunate trivia is far more valuable than reading Chen's writing about the Opium War?
Japanese historical novelists who appeared in the 1950s and 1970s all wrote China's historical themes at the same time, such as Chu Yu, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang by Ryotaro Shiba, Mongolian Arrival and Grandson by Chigoro of Haiyin Temple, Canglang and Dunhuang by Jing Shangjing, and The History of the Three Kingdoms by Yoshikawa Hideyoshi earlier. These works have formed the tradition of Japanese historical novelists-writing about Japan with his left hand and writing about China with his right hand, which has always influenced contemporary Japanese historical novelists.
I appreciate Chen very much. He said, "Only Chen. ...