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Penguin released a new title in English, Giant Pandas: Born Survivors, in November in Chengdu, Sichuan's provincial capital.
The Second Sex, published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, has won the 2012 Fu Lei Award for Translation and Publication.
The 23rd National Books Expo is to open in Hainan province from April 19 to 22 next year, organizers announced in Beijing last week.
Markus Dohle, chairman and CEO of Random House, says that to fit into the global trend of digital transformation.
She's the younger sister of a homecoming youth, compliant and sweet
As he waits to sign on the dotted line of his Icelandic deal, Chinese entrepreneur Huang Nubo has published a collection of poems about life.
An avid reader says there is no sense in letting volumes gather dust on shelves. Xu has been repeated explaining this since he founded a mobile library in China, which offers books to visitors for free if they promise to pass them on.
Tao Li, a 11th-grade student at Ningbo Yinzhou Senior School, walks into his school library, picks up three books and within 35 seconds, he has completed the entire process of borrowing the books at the book-lending machine.
Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan has won a "Golden Lion" Award, for his play "Our Jing Ke", organizers said on Sunday.
There are reasons to cross Victoria Harbor to Kowloon, and venture beyond Tsim Sha Tsui and Temple Street.
The Edward Cullen of "Twilight" may be the norm for vampires these days, but fictional monsters such as Dracula originally sprang from the fear of inexplicable diseases and the mysteries of death in the natural world.
A funeral for Han Suyin will be held Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she passed away last Friday at the age of 96.