Guo Jingming, known as Edward Guo, is a Chinese young adult writer, director, and businessman.
20 Facts About Guo Jingming
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Guo Jingming rose to fame by winning first prize consecutively in the 2001 and 2002 New Concept Writing Competition.
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Guo Jingming was born in Zigong, Sichuan province, located in the southwest of China.
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Guo Jingming's father, Cheng Jianwei, is an engineer who works in a state-owned enterprise; his mother, named Zou Huilan, works in a local bank as a clerk.
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Guo Jingming showed strong interest in reading during his early years.
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Guo Jingming's mother bought many books to inspire him in reading, explaining everything until Guo was able to understand.
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Guo Jingming was able to memorize what he read or heard, such as stories that people read to him.
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Guo Jingming was able to recite them after listening to it only once.
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Guo Jingming's writing talent emerged during his middle school years, as he avidly read Chinese literature and Wuxia fiction, particularly works by Jin Yong and Gu Long.
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Guo Jingming filled out seven application forms and submitted seven 5,000-word essays.
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However, by the time Guo Jingming participated in the competition, guaranteed university admission was no longer offered to winners.
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Guo Jingming decided to stay in Shanghai "with nothing and no one to help me except for the limited fame I gained through the writing contest".
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In 2006, at 23, Guo Jingming became the youngest member of China Writers Association.
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In 2004, Guo Jingming published a novel Never Flowers in Never Dream while he studied at Shanghai University.
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The novel that Guo Jingming was accused to plagiarize is named "In and Out of the Circle" written by Zhuang Yu.
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In 2006, the court made the final judgment, which announced that Guo Jingming has violated Zhuang Yu's copyright, and ordered him to pay Zhuang Yu 200,000 RMB as compensation and apologize to Zhuang.
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Guo Jingming has paid the damage fee; however, he refused to apologize or admit the plagiarism, or talk about this case.
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Guo Jingming, nevertheless, said people criticized him because they had never read his book, so he would not pay attention to their false judgments, though he hated to be misunderstood.
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Guo Jingming announced that he would prove to people they were wrong even if it would take ten years to clarify.
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Guo Jingming offered Zhuang Yu all the revenue he had received from Never Flowers in Never Dreams as a form of compensation.