Early on there were Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Clanand Liu Heng's Ju Dou. More recently, Wives and Concubines (the book on which the film Raise the Red Lantern was based) has been a long-term bestseller.
早期像莫言的《紅高粱家族》（「紅高粱」的電影原著），劉恆的《伏羲伏羲》（「菊豆」原著）等，最近，像蘇童的《妻妾成群》（「大紅燈籠高高掛」的電影原著），在市場上都是長銷書。