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Category Archives: China Books
The Eurasian Face
Blacksmith Books, a publishing house in Hong Kong, is behind The Eurasian Face, a collection of photographs by Kirsteen Zimmern. Below is an excerpt from the series:
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Big in China
An adapted excerpt from Big In China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising A Family, Playing The Blues and Becoming A Star in China, just published this month. Author Alan Paul tells the story of arriving in Beijing as a trailing spouse, starting a blues band, raising kids and trying to make sense of China.
Pallavi Aiyar’s Chinese Whiskers
Pallavi Aiyar’s first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
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Harvest Season: Q&A with novelist Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor is the author of Harvest Season, his debut novel set in southwestern China and published earlier this year by Earnshaw Books. He recently answered Danwei’s questions about how he came to write his first work of fiction.
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Lisa Brackmann’s Rock Paper Tiger excerpt and Q&A
Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. She has lived and traveled extensively in China. A southern California native, Brackmann in Venice, California, and spends a lot of time in Beijing, China. Rock Paper Tiger is her first novel.
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When a Billion Chinese Jump by Jon Watts
The Guardian’s Jon Watts authored a book on the environment, focusing especially on China and how its realities and policies will affect the rest of the world.
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Jeroen de Kloet’s China with a Cut
Jeroen de Kloet is the author of China with a Cut, which looks into the dakou culture and then the ensuing commercialism of China’s music market.
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Jean Kwok’s Girl In Translation
Jean Kwok writes about the Asian American emigration experience. Her website describes the plot of Girl In Translation thus: “When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings.” For more, see Jeankwok.net.
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Deanna Fei’s A Thread of Sky
“A Thread of Sky is narrated by each of the six characters in turn, from each stop on their tour; each chapter is written in the third-person, but entirely from the characters’ points of view. I always knew that was the only way I could write it, because through
the story of these six women and their experiences of China, the novel also explores the nature of perspective: each character’s perspective on herself, on one another, and on China.”
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A history of Shanghai in photos: Q&A with Karen Smith
Q&A with Karen Smith, co-author of Shanghai, A History in Photographs 1842 – Today.
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