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John Naisbitt's Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives sold more than 9 million copies and was on the New York Times Bestsellers list for two years.
John Naisbitt is an author and public speaker, born in 1929 in the United States.
John and Doris Naisbitt's latest work examines the successful pioneering solutions of Sichuan's provincial capital in impressive detail.
Scholar and calligrapher Tian Xuzhong from Sichuan province has launched A History of Chinese Cursive Script Art, the first book of its kind, in Beijing on Dec 15.
The best selling imported business and investing TITLES on amazon.cn.
There were many kinds of best-sellers in 2011 and they sold in different ways. Some were meant for success, some were surprises, and some thrived on the Internet alone.
Every last Tuesday of the month, a group of women lay claim to the long wooden table at 12sqm bar on Beijing's Nanluoguxiang.
Fusang, a 20-year-old woman, is kidnapped from her village in China, taken to San Francisco and sold into prostitution.
Yan Geling's latest novel is based on her grandfather and was a work of self-discovery, she says.
A Japanese poet, who says he'll turn down the Nobel he's likely to win, wonders about humankind's place in the universe.
British writer Richard Francis, French writer Jean-Christophe Rufin and Russian writer Olga Slavnikova were in Beijing recently to receive the 21st Century Best Foreign Novel of the Year Award.
One of the reasons why the otherwise peripatetic Xu Xi has been living mostly in Hong Kong for the last two years is her commitment to facilitating the rise of new writing from Asia.