An industrial regulation to safeguard the fair trade of books was slammed recently by two organizations for violating the Chinese Anti-monopoly Law.
A Chinese and British publisher join hands to produce a book that is not just a visual treat but also demystifies Chinese culture for foreigners.
Chinese romantic novelist Miao Juan truly believes that love makes the world go around.
Director of Beijing Representative Office
Before Wu Xinmin, a 28-year-old Beijing chengguan officer goes to sleep at night, he reads a fiction story that he downloaded from the Internet on his MP4 player.
Emerging in the mid 1980s as a young experimentalist, Mo Yan is one of the greatest Chinese-language writers today.
The idea for Tracy Chevalier's latest novel "Remarkable Creatures" came to her in a dinosaur museum in Dorset, England.
For the first 45 years of his life, Ted Cross was oblivious to the birds around him.
The past year has yielded a marvelous variety of books in China. Here are our top picks.
"Becoming Jane Eyre," (Penguin Books, 256 pages, $15) by Sheila Kohler: Charlotte Bronte was a dutiful daughter of the Victorian age.
The absence of hard-hitting works by heavyweight writers made 2008 a "light year" for Chinese fiction.
Books drawing attention from both critics and the lay public this year can be broadly put into the following categories.