Running Through Beijing ought to be profoundly depressing. And yet it isn’t. Just the opposite: it’s uplifting, thrilling. It’s a...
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From a previously banned novel about rural hardship to a collection of short stories exploring everyday lives: The Guardian Best...
Bruce Hume's take on China lit's globalisation drive China’s culture apparatchiks are getting serious about bringing Chinese-literature-in-translation to the masses...
With the rise of e-books and alternative entertainment, traditional publishing is facing new headwinds around the world. But in China,...
On the occasion of Danish Queen Margrethe II’s official visit to China, the Chinese have been talking about Danish cookies,...
Chinese author Bi Feiyu is keeping a level head as he makes a name for himself internationally. Cecily Liu reports in London: The China Daily Soon after Bi Feiyu's 2008 novel Three Sisters was published, the Chinese author gave a book-reading in London. He was part-way through the reading when a member of the audience stood up. "She stood up when the main female character, Yumi, called her boyfriend 'brother'," Bi says. (more…)
China's book retail sales boomed in 2013, with online sales exceeding 16 billion yuan (2.56billion U.S. dollars), a 30 percent year-on-year increase, according to a report published bythe People's Daily on Thursday. The report was jointly issued by China Central Television, the People's Daily, book-selling websites, and Horizon Research Constancy Group. (more…)
Digital devices are becoming the main channel that peoplechoose to read and get daily news, according to a survey of taxipassengers in Shanghai, where bookshops are trying hard toattract customers. China Daily conducted a poll of 169,122 people withTouchmedia, China's leading in-taxi media company, from April1 to 10. (more…)
Reading books is becoming increasingly popular among Chinese adult, but newspapers and magazines are falling out of favor, according to survey results released on Monday. Polling 40,600 adults in 29 provincial-level regions, an annual survey on reading habits found that they read 4.77 paper books and 2.48 digital ones in a year, up 0.38 and 0.13 respectively. (more…)
Chinese Internet company Tencent announced that its Internet literature business will implement independent operation as a subsidiary and Wu Wenhui...
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