“THE Three-Body Problem,” a Chinese science fiction work, has sold over 110,000 English-translated copies since it was published in the US in November 2014.
It’s a rare success story in a global market where Chinese authors are unknown, and even in cases where their books are translated, readership interest is wan.
Of the 1.6 million titles sold in China last year, about 8 percent were fiction. Options on copyrights to more than 10,000 titles were sold overseas, but very few are likely to hit the shelves in Europe and the US...." link
Cixin Liu in the catalog