The People’s Press – the biggest publishing
house for China’s orthodox revolutionary books – reports that Marx’s
anti-capitalism opus "Das Kapital" has been selling about 4,000-5,000
copies nationwide a month since last November. That’s a big jump from
before the economic crisis, when the book sold well under 1,000 copies
per month on average.
The "Selected Works by Mao Zedong," a book
owned by almost every Chinese citizen a few decades ago, is also
witnessing a big jump in sales since late last year, according to Mr.
Pan from the People’s Press circulation department.
Here is the full story and I thank Ryan Tetrick for the pointer.
still very small comparatively….
4 or 5 copies a month?
so in the U.S. sales of Atlas Shrugged shoot up as a result of the crisis, and in China sales of Das Kapital increase for the same reason.
There may be hope for us yet
And that means that the number of people actually reading Das Kapital has gone from 1 to 4 or 5.
God knows, I tried to read it. It redefines impenetrable, it makes Ulysses seem like a lucid little novella.
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