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Tag Archives: books
What we talk about when we talk about China to Google
Scholar, author and China Beat co-founder Jeffrey Wasserstrom gives a talk at Google about his book China in the 21st Century: What everyone needs to know.
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Tagged books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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A guide to book reviews in China
Duxieren (读写人), an aggregator of book reviews, by Bimuyu, who also keeps his own literary blog.
Posted in Blogs, Books
Tagged @mwchinese, Bimuyu, blogs, book reviews, books, Duxieren, literature
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Dreaming in Chinese by Deb Fallows
Deb Fallows has lived and travelled in China for four years. She studied at Harvard and has a Ph.D. in linguistics, and is author of A Mother’s Work. She and her husband, writer James Fallows, have two sons.
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Tales of Old Hong Kong
The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books.
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Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun
Feng’s memoir Diamond Hill describes an era of gambling and gangsters, Suzie Wong and squatter villages, fires and food stalls, and the Kowloon Walled City and its white powder. “A time when people were poor, but life was rich,” he says. The world that he grew up in no longer exists, but his book – the first ever on the Diamond Hill refugee settlement, in either Chinese or English – offers a candid picture of what life was like for most Hong Kong residents in the 1950s.
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William A. Callahan’s China: The Pessoptimist Nation
China: The Pessoptimist Nation shows how the heart of Chinese foreign policy is not a security dilemma, but an identity dilemma. Through a careful analysis of how Chinese people understand their new place in the world, the book charts how Chinese identity emerges through the interplay of positive and negative feelings in a dynamic that intertwines China’s domestic and international politics.
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Eveline Chao on Chinese slang and swearing
Eveline Chao, author of “Niubi”, teaches Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn the origin of ‘niubi’, how to say ‘fisting’ and other useful phrases in Chinese.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged books, Chinese language, Eveline Chao, interview, niubi, slang
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Wang Gang on English and the Cultural Revolution
Wang Gang (王刚) author of the novel English (英格力士), a best-selling novel based on the author’s childhood in Urumqi, Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution talks to Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn. Film shot and edited by Patrick Carr of Mandarin Film.
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Tagged books, literature, novels, Urumqi, Wang Gang, Xinjiang
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Woman From Shanghai and the marketing of Chinese literature in translation
The cover to the English translation of Yang Xianhui’s collection of stories from a rightist camp shows an attractive, traditional woman in a qipao. Berlin Fang looks at what books about China are published in the US and how they are marketed.
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Tagged Berlin Fang, book covers, books, Peng Lun, translations, Wen Huang, Yang Xianhui
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Ah Bei, CEO of douban.com, on the website as a “creative stage”
Compared to other websites on the Chinese blogosphere, douban.com, not quite a social networking site but still based on users forming events, discussion groups, fan pages of brands, groups, people et al, has dominated the cultural scene online in China.
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Tagged Ah Bei, books, douban.com, movies, music, SNS
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