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Category Archives: Books
Mountains, seas, and official reading material
Wen Jiabao (温家宝) visits Northeast Normal University (东北师范大学); photo has the Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经) blurred out.
Posted in Books, Magazines, Media and Advertising, Media regulation, Photography, State media
Tagged books, Oriental Outlook, photographs, reading, Wen Jiabao
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Work plans for Chinese writers
Zhang Yueran (张悦然) signs with the Beijing Writers’ Association, and as a result has to plan out her contract work. Danwei looks at the work plans that Mao Dun (茅盾), Cao Yu (曹禺), and Lao She (老舍) wrote up in the 1950s.
Two decades of profitable Chinese book agents
An Min (安民) writes in Southern Weekly (南方周末) about Chinese book agents (书商) and Xue Mili (雪米莉).
Posted in Books, Media business
Tagged @classic, agents, An Min, books, Hong Kong, Jia Pingwa, publishing, Southern Weekly, Xue Mili
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The world may not be flat…
… but something is In November last year, Danwei published a short post titled Chinese journalists tire of Thomas Friedman. Someobody named Fifi just left a comment on that post: Friedman and his flat earth theory has one major flaw, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Media and Advertising, Trends and Buzz
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Who’s not going to Jin Ping Mei park, and why?
A Jin Ping Mei ruins park (金瓶梅遗址公园) in Huangshan, Anhui, gets no visitors. Schadenfreude abounds.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Books, Tourism, Trends and Buzz
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Who’s tops in Chinese lit?
An online ranking of Chinese-language authors puts Han Han ahead of Su Dongpo. Not a problem, say Ge Fei and Cai Jun.
Posted in Advertising and Marketing, Books, Internet, Trends and Buzz
Tagged authors, books, Cai Jun, rankings
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Yu Dan: defender of traditional culture, force for harmony
Yu Dan (于丹) gets criticized by ‘real scholars’. He Dong (何东) writes in her defense, saying that TV program hosts are the ones who ought to be upset. Zhao Yong in Southern Metropolis Daily writes that she upholds the mainstream government line.
Posted in Books, Scholarship and education, Trends and Buzz, TV
Tagged @classic, BQ, Confucianism, He Dong, SARFT, Yu Dan, Zhao Yong
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Zhu Dake on literature and literary prizes
Cultural critic Zhu Dake (朱大可) talks about online literature and the Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖).
Posted in Books, Scholarship and education
Tagged @classic, books, Nobel Prize, The First, Zhu Dake
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Louis Cha has a blog! Or not.
Someone opens a Sina and Bokee blog pretending to be Louis Cha (查良镛, aka Jin Yong 金庸).
Posted in Blogs, Books, Internet, IP and Law, Trends and Buzz
Tagged Jin Yong
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Ex-cons writing about prison life
Four Walls (四面墙) by Zhang Chunlei (张春雷 aka 哥们儿), Female Psychologist (女心理师) by Bi Shumin (毕淑敏), and two prison blogs.
Posted in Blogs, Books, TV
Tagged @classic, Bi Shumin, blogs, books, online books, Prison Break, prisons, Southern Weekly, Zhang Chunlei
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