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Ｂｅｓｔｓｅｌｌｅｒ　Ｌｉｓｔｓ：Ｉｍｐｒｉｎｔｓ　Ｌｅｆｔ　ｂｙ　Ｔｉｍｅ 　　 　　ECENTLY a list of bestsellers of the last ten years aroused heated discussions. From celebrities’ biographies a decade ago, to contemporary titles on how to live healthily, the changing nature of bestsellers reflects the shifts in Chinese life. 　　 　　Famous Lives 　　 　　In 1997 the bestsellers list belonged to celebrity authors. Ni Ping, a famous anchor on CCTV, published her autobiography Rizi, or Days, which notched up sales of more than a million. Hosting an entertaining program with an audience rating of 18 percent, Ni had influence over 200 million viewers. Readers found out from the autobiography that the star was also a common person who had the same problems as everyone. In her book, Ni told people that she wanted to live a common life, and expressed her views on life, marriage and family, which made readers like her even more and drove her career to new heights. 　　Ni’s successor on the program, Yang Lan, was another best-selling author that year. As an anchor for four years and a Golden Microphone winner, Yang left China for the US in her heyday. After graduating from Columbia University in 1997, she began to make her own TV programs. Her book Pinghai Linfeng, or Feeling Wind by Sea, was a collection of essays recording her experiences working in television and overseas. She shared love stories as well as her views on life. The book achieved instant success, selling over 500,000 copies in 1997. Facing Life with Smiles, by well-known comic actor Jiang Kun, was also a hit that year. 　　All the bestselling authors the following year were famous people in different fields, like Yu Qiuyu and An Dun, two masters in cultural circles. 　　Ever since CCTV anchor Zhao Zhongxiang published Suiyue Suixiang, or Random Notes of Years, back in 1995, the advantage of publishing works by people already famous has been widely recognized by publishers. At a time when the Internet was not yet popular, traditional media, especially