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Quality translations and targeted marketing alone can help break the lingering stereotype in overseas markets of modern Chinese fiction as propaganda, literary experts say. Yang Guang reports
Author Chen Danyan's contemporary writings of Shanghai have become nostalgic musings on the city's transformation.
While British sinologist Joseph Needham attributed significant weight to the impact of Confucianism and Taoism on the pace of Chinese scientific discovery, Chu Yu believes the impact of Confucianism is not the major stimulus.
The country's leading female authors and critics wrangle over the current meaning of feminism in print.
American photographer and writer Bobby Brill called Los Angeles home until he moved to China in 2006, a "crushed" fine art teacher looking for change.
The tension between his northern inheritance and growing up surrounded by southern sensibilities is an enduring theme in Sun Ganlu's writing.
Yu Hua revels in his exposes of the good, the bad and the ugly in his novel Brothers and its sequel. Chitralekha Basu and Yang Guang report
One devout Catholic's attempt to understand the lives of missionaries in Buddhist Tibet ends up as a three-volume trilogy about love, faith and fate.
On a dry and hot Saturday in June, the kind of day most locals stay at home to avoid the oppressive heat, a crowd of more than 100 people packed One Way Street, a small Beijing bookstore.
When Michael Berry made up his mind to translate Wang Anyi's seminal work, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, he never imagined that at the end of the day he would have to resort to hard sell, as the book - awarded, televised, staged and generally accepted as a contemporary classic and an insightful account of 20th-century China - was a huge commercial hit.
At 56, the award-winning Wang Anyi has a formidable body of work to her credit that touches almost every aspect of life - from the ordinary to the bizarre.
Hollywood interested in filming books from Chinese best-seller.