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Hai Yan: books with the reach of television

Hai Yan (海岩) is interviewed by Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊).

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Cory Doctorow speaking at the Beijing Bookworm

On Wednesday science fiction writer, Boing Boing editor and copyright activist Cory Doctorow gave a speech at the Beijing Bookworm to an enthusiastic crowd. Victor Muh filmed the whole speech and uploaded it to Youtube. The guy wearing an Antiwave … Continue reading →

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New adventures in book piracy

Hanwang (汉王) offers a scanning pen (e摘客).

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The angry professor writes a book

Zhang Jiehai (张结海) has a book out – I Am Angry (我愤怒) – about the China Bounder affair.

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Yu Qiuyu on the hardships of reading

Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨) writes about trunks of books.

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Haruki Murakami in Chinese

Lin Shaohua (林少华) talks about how his translations of the works of Haruki Murakami (村上春树) are received in China.

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Xinhua Bookstore’s competitors are both online and in-house

Xinhua Bookstores (新华书店) faces competition from private sellers as well as structural contradictions.

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Lu Jinbo: Marketing the Wang Shuo brand

Larry Lu Jinbo (路金波) talks about how he markets books by Wang Shuo (王朔), Han Han (韩寒), and Annie Baobei (安妮宝贝).

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Mountains, seas, and official reading material

Wen Jiabao (温家宝) visits Northeast Normal University (东北师范大学); photo has the Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经) blurred out.

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Work plans for Chinese writers

Zhang Yueran (张悦然) signs with the Beijing Writers’ Association, and as a result has to plan out her contract work. Danwei looks at the work plans that Mao Dun (茅盾), Cao Yu (曹禺), and Lao She (老舍) wrote up in the 1950s.

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