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SELF-TAUGHT historian Sun Haohui's nonfiction series "The Qin Empire" is so popular that the multitudes of zealous fans' questions forced his latest book release event to run late at the Beijing Book Fair on Jan 9.
Thirty minutes after the scheduled ending time, the host had to halt the Q&A, leaving many disappointed they didn't get to pose their queries.
Sun was presenting the abridged, three-book version of his best-selling 11-book series, "The Qin Empire."
The new version condenses the 5 million-character series into 1.2 million characters.
Its publisher estimates the new version will sell...