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Category Archives: Books
Publishing in China’s minority languages
Summary of a report from China News and Publishing Journal about problems facing the minority language publishing sector.
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Those happy days when books cost half a kuai
Looking back at a series of 0.5 RMB books.
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Hymens and the Olympics
Naked Gaze ties together Yu Hua, Zhao Yan, and the Olympics.
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Tagged Naked Gaze, Olympics, Yu Hua
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Danwei TV: A Hong Kong Story with Roland Soong
This installment of the Hard Hat Show features Roland Soong of ESWN, guiding us on a short literary quest in Hong Kong. We are looking for real places that feature in Eileen Chang’s (张爱铃) novella Love in a Fallen City … Continue reading
Science fiction for summer reading: translations and criticism
Isaac Asimov’s Empire novels (帝国系列) and Stephen King’s Dark Tower (黑暗塔) series come to mainland China. Also, a new Chinese science fiction criticism journal, Edge Review (边缘).
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Photos of Liu Xiang and flying cranes
Only 60% of ‘My Heart is Flying: A Liu Xiang Photobook’ (我心飞翔·刘翔写真集) concerns the Olympic hurdles champion. The rest talks about cranes, the emblem of the Baisha tobacco company. Is this symptomatic of problems within the Chinese celebrity endorsement system?
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The cost of marketing a young web author
Marketing figures for the print version of young author Lin Qianyu’s online novel Carefree: A Crusade Legend (林千羽, 《逍遥·圣战传说》), serialized on Sina and published by Zhaohua Press.
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Tagged BQ, fantasy, Lin Qianyu, online fiction, Zhaohua Publishing
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Gnawing at language, biting the ankles of Chinese media
A look at the Chinese magazine ‘Correct Language’ (咬文嚼字 – ‘Yaowen Jiaozi’) and language pedantry.
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For better government, read fewer books
For World Book and Copyright Day, Chinese science fiction author and journalist Han Song writes that Chinese officials need to read less.
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