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A new collection of short stories from Xu Xi focuses on themes close to the author's heart - namely mature women, sex and Hong Kong.
Novelist Zhang Wei's latest epic You Are on the Highland has sold 500,000 copies since it was published in March 2010.
An author's work helps her conquer the depression that debilitated her life but inspired her writing.
When her beloved hound dog died, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walsh watched her young daughters tearfully struggle with their loss and with tough questions.
Publishers are looking toward more dazzling book designs to survive the shift toward e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad.
When Wu Ximan passed by Wudaokou in late October, he was surprised to find the bookstore O2SUN he used to frequent had been closed down.
Representatives of more than 20 Chinese children's books publishing houses met with their foreign counterparts to examine market trends at a seminar in Beijing.
Scaling the world's highest mountains propels the prose of Huang Nubo to soaring heights.
Most poets spend their lives in shadowed quietude, in the wake of the golden years for poetry in the late 1970s and the entire '80s.
Zhang Yali, an editor at the Beijing-based Writers' Publishing House, recalls how she joined her fellow students to obtain a copy of Hsi Mu-jung's Common Jasmine Orange.
Pinkney brings a similar sumptuous aesthetic to the re-imagining of the familiar bedtime lullaby.
The bilingual book is a collection of the most successful design and research programs from students, academics, artists and designers.