Tag Archives: @classic

The horrors of SMS messaging

Naraka 19 (地狱第19层), based on the Cai Jun (蔡骏) novel, gets neutered by SARFT.

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Of banned books and reading habits

The Hong Kong Book Fair’s theme is Reading Hong Kong (阅读香港). Yau Lop Poon (丘立本) writes about reading banned books.

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Harvest turns 50

Harvest magazine (收获) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with the July, 2007 issue.

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China’s kings of destruction

Terrorist Meng Jiangnu and environmental monster Lu Ban stack up against Zhuge Liang, who snarled Yangtze River shipping traffic, and the Foolish Old Man, who launched a premeditated attack on the landscape.

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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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Some like them uncut

Hu Tong (胡同) of Booyee Bookshop (布衣书局) writes about the popularity of uncut editions.

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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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Trend-spotting in online fiction

An interview with Daniel Dan Fei (丹飞), publisher of Notes on Graverobbing (盗墓笔记), Rear Palace (后宫), and Those Ming Dynasty Things (明朝那些事).

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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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