Question Is there a reason why fewer new Chinese Novels have been coming

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  1. jordansainvil

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    • No need to joke about that
    Is there a reason why the amount of new novels from china have stagnated? [REDACTED]
     
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    You know the virus more dangerous than Corona?
    Yeah.
    QI.
     
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    Its sad. The amount of novels being released have been reduced to nearly none for a month now. I use to be able to find one a week, but now I'd be lucky if im able to see one a month.
     
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    Okuri Ookami 'Chi Chi Chi' calls the Sparrow

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    Why do so many people make tasteless jokes about a virus that is threatening so many people
     
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    The genre of xianxia has been slowing to a crawl for ages now, maybe were just on the precipice to its death.
     
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    For the same reason people joke and joked about e.g. 9/11, Ebola and natural disasters
     
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    All tasteless humor
     
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    it might have something to do with that crackdown a little bit back the Chinese Government did for all novels and stuff.
     
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    They got more shit to worry about than writing fantasy fiction
     
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    Because they thinks its funny and haven’t experienced it.
    If they experienced it then jokes on them.
     
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    The only thing I hope is that the virus isn't too harsh and it will lessen the control the government has on its populace
     
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    Qidian International (Webnovel) is the answer you're looking for
     
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    Because humans are fundamentally racist
     
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    I find it amusing that at the same time as this post is this other post:
    https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/novel-updates-analysis-feb-2020.100478/

    Which shows the number of CN novels have been increasing. Although, perhaps not in the genres you are reading. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of genres and their rate of growths.

    Of course, whether these are sustained translations is another discussion.
     
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    For china govern first comes money then the rest, and the genre has grow a lot and also started to moving a real big amount of money :p

    Also it might start losing people interest if people that translate keep picking up only templates novels from xianxia/xuanhuan instead of choosing ones that try to build a more interesting world with more interesting characters, novesl like chronicles of gu hai and others that are also interesting and its on NU started being translated and then translators never continued
     
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    This is statistics for translated novels on NU. The raw novel number has been dropping a lot.
     
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    Ruyi translator at CG

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    Aren't we being saturated with plenty of novels as it is? Maybe it's slowed because translators and translation groups are focusing on finishing the ones they've already released? I'd like that more than someone translating a few chapters and then dropping the project again.
     
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    Judging from OP's post about being able to find one/week, I'm pretty sure they aren't talking about raw numbers in this thread.
     
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