Chinese author Mian Mian, who shot to fame with lurid tales of sex, drugs and alcohol in the underworld, will sue Internet giant Google this week for copyright infringement, her lawyer said Monday. Sun Jingwei told AFP that the case -- the first civil lawsuit against Google in China over the scanning of books into its controversial web library -- would open at a Beijing court on Tuesday. "Tomorrow afternoon at the Haidian court, representatives from both sides will hand over evidence," Sun said. "After that I will be preparing our case and I figure that the actual trial will take place next year." The 39-year-old Mian Mian -- who won fame in 2000 with her novel "Candy," a story about prostitutes, gangsters and artists in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen -- is seeking 61,000 yuan (8,900 dollars) in damages. She alleges that Google illegally scanned her third novel "Acid Lovers" into its digital library, Sun said.
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