Category Archives: Books

Bootleg faith

Posted on 2006-10-31 by Joel Martinsen

A pirated Bible (圣经) sold by a roadside bookseller in Jilin, China.

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Writers at home and abroad distort Red Mansions

Posted on 2006-10-27 by Joel Martinsen

A Comic Red Mansions (大话红楼) raises the ire of parents and teachers. Is it the work of an American NASA scientist? Also, a computer-generated image of Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu.

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Guo Jingming’s new magazine and charity

Posted on 2006-10-26 by Joel Martinsen

Guo Jingming (郭敬明) and the new Top Novel (最小说) fiction magazine.

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Dreck, the new bestseller by your local party secretary

Posted on 2006-10-25 by Joel Martinsen

Li Dalun writes books, Yu Qiuyu gives advice on officials writing, and two columnists discuss the corruption involved in publishing officials’ works.

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GAPP and book price wars

Posted on 2006-10-18 by Joel Martinsen

GAPP calls a halt to a price war between two independent Beijing bookstores, but they don’t really listen.

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Writing and packaging young adult fiction for teenage girls

Posted on 2006-10-14 by Joel Martinsen

YA novels for girls, featuring GirlneYa vs. Xiao Nizi.

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Putting animal protection in the dictionary

Posted on 2006-10-11 by Joel Martinsen

Animal protection advocates in China are upset at definitions in the Xinhua Dictionary that refer to the tasty flesh of animals.

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A recipe for intrigue: an opportunistic novelization, an anonymous blurb, and the censorship board

Posted on 2006-09-19 by Joel Martinsen

暗算, a novelization of a television series adapted from a novel by Mai Jia (麦家), quotes an anonymous online source for a back-cover blurb. Also, the censorship process in regards to code-breaking subject matter.

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Migrant worker blues: Who cares?
by Bruce Humes

Posted on 2006-09-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Bruce Humes reviews two recent books about migrants in China: ‘I Shall Shed No Tears’ (我的眼泪不会掉下来) by Wang Lili and ‘La Promesse de Shanghai’ by Stephane Fiere.

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Beijing Bookworm Mini Literary Festival

Posted on 2006-08-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Bookworm in Beijing is hosting a literary festival next week. Below is the schedule as provided by the Bookworm. One of the events is a panel discussion about Internet publishing; your correspondent is on the panel together with Hung … Continue reading →

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