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As Beijing grows into a truly cosmopolitan city, Todd Balazovic learns how a mixed group of book fans are binding together with their shared passion.
American crime writer Lawrence Block, 73, starts his Beijing tour with a joke, "Bonjour, I'm happy to be here in Paris."
Chinese and French writers shared views on their writing and understanding of the two cultures at a Beijing forum on Jan 21 and 22.
"It was an impish concoction, and things were bound to get fervid once hydroxy-alpha-sanshool and capsaicin hooked up."
Blue of China is Europe's only publishing house dedicated solely to Chinese books. Yang Guang reports.
China Periodicals Association and Viva Mobile Media have jointly announced the 2010 Chart of Chinese Mobile Phone Magazine, the first of its kind.
The runaway success of Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" trilogy suggests that when it comes to contemporary literature in translation, Americans are at least willing to read Scandinavian detective fiction.
A set of books, pictorials and digital video discs on the history and culture of Labrang Monastery, center of the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in northwest China's Gansu Province, were launched Sunday in the provincial capital Lanzhou.
Images of a Civilization is a research project of a group of historians from the National Museum of Chinese History that aims to track the story of Chinese civilization from primitive to contemporary times.
Many of Chengdu's writers work at night and sleep until late. During the mellow, usually cloud-covered afternoons they prefer to lounge in wicker chairs on the sidewalks of a bar street, chatting, snoozing, playing mahjong, as entrepreneurial China rushes past.
More than 3,200 novels were published in 2010, with the most popular being about officialdom, the workplace and teen romance.
The New Beijing Dialect Dictionary, which includes 10,200 entries of words and slang, is the first of its kind published in recent years, after Xu Shirong's Beijing Local Dialect Dictionary (1990).