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Schools disagree on how best to cover a book

It’s the start of a new semester and the debate over book covers is in the news once again.

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Pulp adventure novels: textbooks for crime

After novice graverobbers imitate ‘Ghosts Blow Out the Lights,’ Tianfu Morning Post speaks to author Tianxia Bachang, who makes the astonishing admission that 80% of his content was entirely made-up.

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An English e-book from a Chinese newspaper

An e-book from The Economic Observer newspaper.

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Raymond Zhou’s X-Ray

Book excerpt: X-Ray: Examining the China Enigma by Raymond Zhou (周黎明). Zhou is a well-known Chinese film critic and culture writer, who has published many books in Chinese. The book, in English, is a collection of 99 essays written for the China Daily.

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Who worked for the public good in 2008?

A review of Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone (墓碑) in Window of the South (南风窗). Also, the ‘For the Public Good’ awards

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The best and worst China books of 2008

Access Asia rounds up the best and worst books published about China in 2008.

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Plastic packaging for paperbacks

Buyers of new books like the comfort of knowing that no one has flipped through their book before. Plastic wraps provide that comfort.

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The highest-paid authors in China

Chengdu Business News has released its 2008 ranking of China’s richest authors, and Guo Jingming is in first place for the second year running.

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Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers

An excerpt from Carl Crow’s classic 400 Million Customers and an introduction by Paul French.

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Tom Carter: Portrait of a People

Tom Carter is a photographer who spent two years backpacking around China, taking photographs of people in every province. The result is a book called China: Portrait of a People, recently published by Blacksmith Books.

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