There’s an interesting article by Mike Meyer in this week’s NYTimes Book Review about publishing in China.
Downstairs, the crowds are dense and the juxtapositions jarring. ”Monica’s Story” lies between Bill Clinton’s and Hillary Clinton’s autobiographies. A box set of books about Hermann Goering rubs shoulders with ”What’s Behind Jewish Excellence?” American titles in Chinese translation range from the predictable — ”The Da Vinci Code” and the Atkins diet — to the surprising: Henry Rollins’s ”Get in the Van,” a memoir of his punk years, and a collection of Woody Allen books whose Chinese title promises ”Mensa Whores.”
Well worth a look.