Tag Archives: Mai Jia

The habits of highly effective test-takers

Beijing’s composition question riffs on Stephen Covey’s Big Rocks theory.

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Fiction rankings from Dangdai magazine

Dangdai magazine (当代) for December, 2007, has a list of the past six months’ best-sellers, and a selection of editors’ picks.

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A recipe for intrigue: an opportunistic novelization, an anonymous blurb, and the censorship board

暗算, a novelization of a television series adapted from a novel by Mai Jia (麦家), quotes an anonymous online source for a back-cover blurb. Also, the censorship process in regards to code-breaking subject matter.

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