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Tag Archives: books
The body in the lake
An extract from a novel by old China hand Chris Taylor.
To die poor is a sin
An excerpt of Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang.
Posted in Books, China Books
Tagged books, Dongguan, migrant workers
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Breast milk: more than 400 nutrients but no melamine
A brief Q&A with Xiao Wu, author and breastfeeding advocate, about effects the melamine baby formula scandal may have on child rearing habits in China.
Posted in Milk
Tagged books, breastfeeding, child-rearing, melamine, milk, San Lu, Xiao Wu, Yanhong Wheeler
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A handbook for staying healthy and regular
Newly translated, an ‘Everybody Poops’ for adults.
Posted in Books
Tagged books, cartoons, parasite, translation
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How the Nazis brought about the end of the Cultural Revolution
How The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was translated and circulated in China, from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Posted in Books
Tagged books, China Newsweek, Cultural Revolution, Hitler, Nazis, New Century Weekly, translation
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Old dictionaries and the Olympics
Yuan Shang (元尚) writes about old translations for ‘Olympics’ in the China Reading Journal (中华读书报).
Posted in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Translation
Tagged books, China Reading Journal, dictionaries, Olympics, translation, Yuan Shang
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Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay
This memoir piece is by Xujun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming’.
Posted in Books, China Books, Guest Contributor
Tagged books, fiction, Mao Zedong, Xujun Eberlein
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Long Hair Drama, by Zhang Lijia
An except from Zhang Lijia’s book ‘Socialism is Great!: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China’.
Posted in Books, China Books, Guest Contributor
Tagged books, memoir, Nanjing, socialism, workers, Zhang Lijia
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Chinabounder is back, with a name and a book
Philandering English teacher ‘Chinabounder’ is back, with a name and a book.
Posted in The department of deranged foreigners
Tagged books, Chinabounder, Sinophobia, Zhang Jiehai
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Arts scams, journalism scams, business book scams
Links and summaries of recent stories by Gady Epstein in Forbes magazine.
Posted in Media
Tagged art, books, corruption, Gady Epstein, Jack Perkowski, journalism, newspapers
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