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Guo Jingming (Chinese: 郭敬明; pinyin: Guō Jìngmíng; born June 6, 1983), also known as Edward Guo, is a Chinese young adult writer, director, and businessman.
While in high school, Guo began publishing articles online under the pen name Disiwei ("Fourth Dimension"), which earned him the nickname Xiao Si ("Little Four"). He rose to fame by winning first prize consecutively in the 2001 and 2002 New Concept Writing Competition. With the breakout success of Ice Fantasy (2003), he established himself as a commercially successful yet critically polarizing YA writer in China, followed by bestsellers such as Rush to the Dead Summer (2006), Cry Me a Sad River (2007), and the Tiny Times trilogy (2008–2012).
As a businessman, Guo founded Island Studio in 2004, publishing Island magazine until 2006. He founded CASTOR in 2006 and Zui Co., Ltd. in 2010. The two companies played a major role in China's young adult literature market until they merged in 2019. In 2008, Guo joined EE-Media as its Literary Director. Since the 2010s, he has shifted his career focus to being a filmmaker and showrunner, with works such as Tiny Times (2013–2015), L.O.R.D (2016–2020), The Yin-Yang Master (2020-2021), My Journey to You (2023) and Veil of Shadows (2026).
Guo was born in Zigong, Sichuan province, located in the southwest of China. Guo'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. Guo showed strong interest in reading during his early years. His mother bought many books to inspire him in reading, explaining everything until Guo was able to understand. Guo was able to memorize what he read or heard, such as stories that people read to him. Guo was able to recite them after listening to it only once. Guo's mother strongly supported his interest in reading, and let him pick any books he liked in the store.
Guo'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. This extensive reading taught and inspired him in his own writing, leading Guo to begin submitting to magazines. In 1997, he published his first poem, "Loneliness," in the national magazine Rensheng Shiliuqi. The contemporary poem expresses Guo's personal feelings of melancholy during his school years, for which he received 10 RMB (approximately 1.5 US dollars) as payment from the magazine.
Encouraged by his mother and motivated by the promise of guaranteed university admission for winners, Guo participated in the third and fourth New Concept Writing Competitions, a national writing contest sponsored by Mengya magazine. To win first place, he studied nearly all the winning entries from the previous two New Concept competitions, analyzing the judges' preferred style. He filled out seven application forms and submitted seven 5,000-word essays. He works, "Script" and "Our Last Song on Campus," eventually won the first prize for both of the contests in 2001 and 2002 respectively. However, by the time Guo participated in the competition, guaranteed university admission was no longer offered to winners. With his less-than-stellar gaokao scores, he missed his dream school Xiamen University, instead going to Shanghai University, where he majored in TV and film production until he dropped out. After publishing his first novel, On the Edge of Love and Pain (2002), Guo found great commercial success in his fantasy novel Ice Fantasy (2003), which he finished during the college summer break. Since then, he established himself as one of the best-selling writers in China.
Transporting from the small town of Zigong to Shanghai, Guo realized that "he was caught up by the abundance of the city". He decided to stay in Shanghai "with nothing and no one to help me except for the limited fame I gained through the writing contest". On Christmas Day in 2003, Guo gathered five of his close friends in the newest McDonald's in Shanghai, decided to establish a writing studio called "Island." Since then, Guo has launched his writing and business career, becoming one of China's most successful publishers and managers in the young adult literature market. In 2006, at 23, Guo became the youngest member of China Writers Association.
In 2004, Guo published a novel Never Flowers in Never Dream while he studied at Shanghai University. The book portrayed a triangle love "featuring harmless forays into the Beijing underworld". Never Flowers in Never Dream has sold 600,000 copies in the first month after releasing. However, soon after, a court found that the book has "shared 12 major plot elements and 57 similarities with another author". The novel that Guo was accused to plagiarize is named "In and Out of the Circle" written by Zhuang Yu. In 2006, the court made the final judgment, which announced that Guo has violated Zhuang Yu's copyright, and ordered him to pay Zhuang Yu 200,000 RMB (approximate $25,000) as compensation and apologize to Zhuang. Guo 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
Guo Jingming (Chinese: 郭敬明; pinyin: Guō Jìngmíng; born June 6, 1983), also known as Edward Guo, is a Chinese young adult writer, director, and businessman.
While in high school, Guo began publishing articles online under the pen name Disiwei ("Fourth Dimension"), which earned him the nickname Xiao Si ("Little Four"). He rose to fame by winning first prize consecutively in the 2001 and 2002 New Concept Writing Competition. With the breakout success of Ice Fantasy (2003), he established himself as a commercially successful yet critically polarizing YA writer in China, followed by bestsellers such as Rush to the Dead Summer (2006), Cry Me a Sad River (2007), and the Tiny Times trilogy (2008–2012).
As a businessman, Guo founded Island Studio in 2004, publishing Island magazine until 2006. He founded CASTOR in 2006 and Zui Co., Ltd. in 2010. The two companies played a major role in China's young adult literature market until they merged in 2019. In 2008, Guo joined EE-Media as its Literary Director. Since the 2010s, he has shifted his career focus to being a filmmaker and showrunner, with works such as Tiny Times (2013–2015), L.O.R.D (2016–2020), The Yin-Yang Master (2020-2021), My Journey to You (2023) and Veil of Shadows (2026).
Guo was born in Zigong, Sichuan province, located in the southwest of China. Guo'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. Guo showed strong interest in reading during his early years. His mother bought many books to inspire him in reading, explaining everything until Guo was able to understand. Guo was able to memorize what he read or heard, such as stories that people read to him. Guo was able to recite them after listening to it only once. Guo's mother strongly supported his interest in reading, and let him pick any books he liked in the store.
Guo'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. This extensive reading taught and inspired him in his own writing, leading Guo to begin submitting to magazines. In 1997, he published his first poem, "Loneliness," in the national magazine Rensheng Shiliuqi. The contemporary poem expresses Guo's personal feelings of melancholy during his school years, for which he received 10 RMB (approximately 1.5 US dollars) as payment from the magazine.
Encouraged by his mother and motivated by the promise of guaranteed university admission for winners, Guo participated in the third and fourth New Concept Writing Competitions, a national writing contest sponsored by Mengya magazine. To win first place, he studied nearly all the winning entries from the previous two New Concept competitions, analyzing the judges' preferred style. He filled out seven application forms and submitted seven 5,000-word essays. He works, "Script" and "Our Last Song on Campus," eventually won the first prize for both of the contests in 2001 and 2002 respectively. However, by the time Guo participated in the competition, guaranteed university admission was no longer offered to winners. With his less-than-stellar gaokao scores, he missed his dream school Xiamen University, instead going to Shanghai University, where he majored in TV and film production until he dropped out. After publishing his first novel, On the Edge of Love and Pain (2002), Guo found great commercial success in his fantasy novel Ice Fantasy (2003), which he finished during the college summer break. Since then, he established himself as one of the best-selling writers in China.
Transporting from the small town of Zigong to Shanghai, Guo realized that "he was caught up by the abundance of the city". He decided to stay in Shanghai "with nothing and no one to help me except for the limited fame I gained through the writing contest". On Christmas Day in 2003, Guo gathered five of his close friends in the newest McDonald's in Shanghai, decided to establish a writing studio called "Island." Since then, Guo has launched his writing and business career, becoming one of China's most successful publishers and managers in the young adult literature market. In 2006, at 23, Guo became the youngest member of China Writers Association.
In 2004, Guo published a novel Never Flowers in Never Dream while he studied at Shanghai University. The book portrayed a triangle love "featuring harmless forays into the Beijing underworld". Never Flowers in Never Dream has sold 600,000 copies in the first month after releasing. However, soon after, a court found that the book has "shared 12 major plot elements and 57 similarities with another author". The novel that Guo was accused to plagiarize is named "In and Out of the Circle" written by Zhuang Yu. In 2006, the court made the final judgment, which announced that Guo has violated Zhuang Yu's copyright, and ordered him to pay Zhuang Yu 200,000 RMB (approximate $25,000) as compensation and apologize to Zhuang. Guo has paid the damage fee; however, he refused to apologize or admit the plagiarism, or talk about this case.