As a Beijing division of Shanghai Century Publishing Co. Ltd., Horizon Media Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2002 and now has grown into a dynamic, leading publisher in China, dedicated in publishing distinguished fiction and high-quality nonfiction, from novel, biography, and business, to history, art, film, education, and academic classics. In these years, Horizon Media has presented more than 700 books for Chinese readers, including bestsellers: Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants; literary novels: 2006 Nobel Prize Literature Laureate Orhan Pamuk series, Roberto Bolaño series, Hermann Hesse Series; and academic titles: Jürgen Habermas Collections, Theodor W. Adorno Series, Hannah Arendt series, Century Humanistic Library and Pocket Academic Classic series.

Peter Handke (Novelist, Playwright)

Austrian novelist, playwright, one of the most respected German-language writers of his generation. He is known as “the living classic” of German-language literature, the founder of the theatre style “Sprechstúcke” (speech play), and the master of anti-language discipline. Among his best-known works are The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Repetition, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Left-Handed Woman, and the play Offending the Audience, which earned him several awards, including Georg Büchner Prize (1973), Franz Kafka Prize (2009) and International Ibsen Award (2014), Kaspar, and The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other. He also directed adaptions of his novel The Left-Handed Woman, which entered the feature film competition at the Cannes International Film Festival, and collaborated with filmmaker Wim Wenders on four films, including Wings of Desire, which became a classic in the history of film. In 2016, The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez screenplay by Handke and directed by Wenders, was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival.

Jinhua Dai (Professor, Peking University)

Professor at Peking University, part-time professor at Ohio State University, Ph.D. Supervisor, director of the Film and Culture Research Center at Peking University. Major research fields including film, popular culture, and feminist literature.

Huadong Qiu (Writer, Executive Vice President of Lu Xun Literature Institute)

Writer, Ph.D in literature, executive vice president of Lu Xun Literature Institute. The author of “Beijing Time” Series, “Chinese Screen” Series and other more than ten novels. Also, the author of many collections of novella, short stories, essays, travel journals, poetry, film reviews and architecture reviews.

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