郭敬明

Guō Jìngmíng
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Guo Jingming
  2. 2 Chinese young-adult novelist and film director

About Guo Jingming

born 1983 · 作家 writer

Writer who won the New Concept Writing Contest as a teenager and became a best-selling novelist with 幻城 and 小时代, which he also directed as films. A court ruled in 2006 that one of his novels copied another writer.

Also called  小四

Examples

HSK 5
Guō Jìngmíng de xiǎoshuō 《 Xiǎoshídài 》 zài Zhōngguó niánqīngrén zhōng hěn shòu huānyíng.
Guo Jingming's novel 'Tiny Times' is popular among young Chinese.
HSK 7-9
Guō Jìngmíng hòulái qīnzì zhídǎo le diànyǐng 《 Xiǎoshídài 》.
Guo Jingming later directed the 'Tiny Times' films himself.

Tips

culture
His nickname 小四 comes from 第四维 'the fourth dimension', the pen name he wrote under online as a schoolboy. After losing the 2006 plagiarism case he paid the damages but refused to apologize; his public apology came only on the last day of 2020.

Stroke Order

郭 Guō
敬 jìng
明 míng