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A brief introduction to Cun Wenxue's book Biluo Snow Mountain.
Pearl Buck (1892-1973), the daughter of missionaries and the first US woman to win a Nobel for literature, spent nearly all of the first 42 years of her life in China, and her childhood was marked by poverty and social upheavals.
Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it - novel, being the key word.
A journalist is chronicling the true stories of 100 ordinary, yet representative, people in a 10-volume book series.
Commentaries on Yang Jiang's three books: We Three, Baptism, and Six Chapters from My Life "Downunder" and her translation works.
Indian writer Amitav Ghosh's novels sometimes read like an encyclopedia. His newest, River of Smoke (John Murray) could, just as well, be read as a scholarly discourse on the life and times of mid-19th century Cantonese society.
Given that only 3 percent of what's published in English is translation, if you're in the business as a niche publisher/translator, chances are, you're doing it for love.
Chinese authors are still struggling to carve a niche in the global gallery of contemporary literary greats.
Published in English by the Foreign Languages Press, From Oracle Bones to E-Publications: Three Millennia of Publishing in China has aroused keen interest.
The best selling imported business and investing titles on amazon.cn
Aravind Adiga, whose debut novel The White Tiger won the Booker prize in 2008, sets his new book in a scruffy tower block in his adopted home of Mumbai, a swirling mass of 16 million people, slums, apartment buildings and Bollywood.
In what its editor called a publishing first, 26 authors with combined sales of tens of millions of books have joined forces to write a thriller called No Rest For the Dead.