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A man in the U.S. managed to cast off his drug habit after he found something even more alluring: Chinese web novels. The books’ unique content and imaginative plots rejuvenated the troubled man's life, media reported.


Kevin Cazad, a software programmer, resorted to drugs to alleviate his pain after breaking up with his girlfriend. Severe drug addiction caused him physical and mental pain, even threatening his life at times. But things changed in 2014, when Cazad first came across online Chinese literature.


“In the past Will Butcher Devils Jersey , whenever I went home, all my attention was on drugs. But when I go home now, the only thing that occupies my mind is Chinese web novels. Like drugs, they can also become an addiction, but the difference is that they can't harm your health,” Cazad told the Southern Weekly during an interview Nico Hischier Devils Jersey , adding that he used to finish five volumes of a popular Chinese web novel named "Coiling Dragon" in a single day.


Cazad’s story shocked the author of the book, who told the Southern Weekly that he never expected so much enthusiasm from a foreign reader.


“Many readers have written letters to me, saying that my web novel reshaped their understanding of life. Some even attribute their achievements to inspiration they got from my books. It was like, are you guys kidding me?” laughed the writer, who goes under the alias “I eat tomatoes.”


Cazad is not the only foreigner to become a diehard fan of online Chinese literature. In fact, Chinese web novels have recently been gaining in popularity among foreign readers Marcus Johansson Youth Jersey , who enjoy the cultural elements contained within the unique works.


According to 2016 statistics from Novelupdates, a website that translates popular Asian novels for Western readers, Chinese web novels have created a reading frenzy among foreign consumers. Among the site's 10 most popular web novels, five were written by Chinese authors.


“As a Westerner, the traditional Chinese elements and strong plots really intrigue me. Outside of the Harry Potter series, I can't think of any other books with so much imagination and innovation Jesper Bratt Youth Jersey ,” Fernando Hernandez, a Spanish engineer, told People’s Daily Online.


Foreigners’ enthusiasm for the web novels has not escaped the notice of Chinese writers and entrepreneurs, who believe that the special genre is an emerging industry, which can serve as a channel to promote Chinese popular culture.


“In recent years, Marvel’s ideas of superheros and multi-space have prevailed around the world. Nowadays Miles Wood Youth Jersey , scientific and imaginative elements better cater to young people’s needs. Chinese web novels not only satisfy readers’ needs in that regard, but also provide them with an Asian version of the Marvel stories,” Wu Wenhui, CEO of China Reading Limited, told the Southern Weekly.

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Tender childhood mystery "Wonderstruck" drew tears and sparked Oscar buzz at its Cannes premiere Thursday, with Julianne Moore playing both a silent movie siren and a deaf 1970s-era New Yorker.


At an emotional press conference at the world's top film festival Brian Gibbons Youth Jersey , director Todd Haynes, who bewitched Cannes critics with his lesbian love story "Carol" two years ago, shed a few tears of his own talking about working with Moore, Michelle Williams and their child co-stars.


"Wonderstruck" is an adaptation of Brian Selznick's young adult novel about two kids who run away to New York, one in 1927 and the other in 1977.


The title refers to a lushly illustrated book left to a young boy after his mother (Williams) dies.


The volume offers clues to the identity of the child's missing father, leading him to slip away from his home on the Great Plains and hop on a bus to the Big Apple.


But before he leaves he is struck deaf in a freak accident and must make his way through the urban jungle without being able to hear.


A separate strand of the movie is set half a century earlier in which a girl Pavel Zacha Youth Jersey , played by deaf actress Millicent Simmonds, goes searching for the actress mother (Moore) who abandoned her.


The stories eventually interwine, as Haynes recreates the bustling energy of pre-Depression New York and the urban blight and seething sensuality of the 1970s.


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"This was all about imagination -- the vitality, the challenges, the complexity of kids," Haynes said.


"I think (kids) can handle a film that has this kind of complexity and dimension to it."


It marked the fourth collaboration between Haynes and Moore Cory Schneider Youth Jersey , whom the director called his "creative soulmate".


Moore said it was an "extraordinary opportunity" to play "two different parts in two different time periods," and learned sign language for the movie.


"For me as a hearing person this was my first experience with deaf culture," she said.


"The people who understand those cultures are the ones who've been in both rooms. I didn't get to be in both rooms but I was allowed to stand in the doorway and what that gave to me as an individual was tremendous."


Williams, who was nominated for an Oscar this year for her role as a grieving mother in "Manchester By the Sea", said being a single mother to her daughter Matilda with the late actor Heath Ledger taught her to respect child actors' talents and needs.


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Haynes's "Carol" drew six Oscar nominations though it came up dry on awards night.


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