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There are a few perspectives at work here, and I want to go beyond just college admissions, because if you鈥檙e aiming to write more in the future choices you make right now can have a much more impactful effect on that than they will on what college you get into.

But first, with college, the thing most schools will care about is 1) the amount of time and effort you put into an activity, 2) the level of recognition you received, and 3) the prestige of an activity. So publishing whatever it is you鈥檝e written (stories? a novel? nonfiction?) on the Chinese site you鈥檙e mentioning would likely outstrip Amazon in #2, but colleges may view Amazon as a bit more prestigious due to its familiarity. That鈥檚 not a hard and fast thing, but most admissions officers will be American with the typical biases you鈥檇 expect, and I think it鈥檚 fairly likely you鈥檇 get a stronger reaction from them with Amazon vs. a site they鈥檝e never heard of. Whereas, for #1, the calculus is likely the same in both cases鈥攈aving a personal editor would be a nice touch and a good experience to have as a writer, so if everything is equal, I鈥檇 probably lean towards the Chinese site.

The more important question here though is what publishing on either site means for the rights to your work. As far as I know (I鈥檝e looked into it in the past), you retain the rights to your work when you publish on Amazon鈥攖hat means you can withdraw it at any point if you wish, that you can resell it later on, that if at some point someone wanted to adapt it in some way you鈥檇 be able to make money off that, and that generally you can control what happens with your work moving forward. I have no idea what that鈥檚 like for the Chinese site you鈥檙e mentioning, and you should look into that before making this decision. If publishing on the Chinese site involves giving up any of those rights to your work (or future work, which would be particularly sneaky), I would go with Amazon. If they鈥檙e the same, then my points above stand.