List of Celebrity Writers of 2014 stirs debate

A list of celebrity writers of 2014 has been forwarded by more than 100 websites and has received about 57 million hit on the twitter-like Sina Weibo in less than 10 hours since Huaxi Metropolis Daily released it on Monday, according to the newspaper.

Celebrities are ranked on the list according to their books’ royalties. Li Kaifu, former Google China president and the founder of Angel Investment Firm, tops the list with his bestseller Be Your Best Self that harvested 13 million yuan in royalties, followed by the entrepreneur FengLun’s Barbaric Growth and the actress and singer Xu Xiyuan’s Beauty Queen: Secrets of Beauty Treatment.