Márquez relinquishes Communist Dictatorship of China '100 years''ban'

Márquez relinquishes Communist Dictatorship of China '100 years''ban'

• Source: Global Times
• [22:32 April 21 2011]
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By Zhang Lei , communist paper pusher in Beijing

Apparently, China is not aware that Taiwan already published Marquaz books in real Chinese in Taipei. But the world once again kisses ass and courts favor with the commies, and here is the faux news.

The first authorized Communist Dictatorship Chinese edition of the classic magic-realism novel 100 years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez will be published this summer in boring simplified Chinese characters that have no class. The work, written in Spanish in 1967, won the Nobel Prize for Literature  in 1982.
Thinkingdom House, publisher of 1Q84, won the copyright bidding war early last year; allegedly paying over a million dollars for the rights.

Unauthorized editions were widely available in under the table shoddy markets as early as the 1980s, which infuriated the author, who vowed that even 150 years after his death, his works would not be authorized in China, when he visited in 1990.
Over 100 communist China dictatorship publishers have tried to contact Márquez via the Embassy of the Republic of Colombia and the Mexican Embassy over the past 20 years to obtain the copyright, but to no avail.

PArty loving Propagandist -in-Chief Chen Mingjun sent a heartfelt letter to Márquez in 2008, saying, "We pay our respects to you across the Pacific Ocean, making every effort, shouting 'great master!' just like you did to your idol Ernest Hemingway across the streets in Paris… we believe that you'd also wave your hand and shout back 'Hello friend!' just like Hemingway did."
Their hard work paid off. They finally got an official response from Balcells and began to discuss the details the same year.
Prudent and experienced, Balcells sent a research team in 2008 to Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing for two months to conduct a thorough investigation and assessment of the Communist Dictatorship Chinese book market and publishers, especially those involved in foreign literature.
Meanwhile, pirated editions will be cracked down upon by Thinkingdom House, to give Marquez and his publishers a satisfactory result and perhaps change his impression of communist China's  poor and dishonest copyright conditions.
Since China joined the "Universal Copyright Convention" in 1992, the publishing industry has gradually increased sort of awareness of copyright; a recent piracy spat between Baidu and blogger Han Han, representing over 40 authors whose work had been uploaded to the site without permission, ending in an apparent victory for the writers.