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  • Rewriting women's literature again

    2010-08-13 09:27

    The country's leading female authors and critics wrangle over the current meaning of feminism in print.

  • E-Readers promise a flexible future

    2010-08-09 10:07

    The original AmazonKindle cost $400, and its screen displayed a mere four shades of gray.

  • Cities of China get makeover in new book series

    2010-08-09 09:43

    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.

  • Caught between worlds

    2010-08-09 09:42

    The tension between his northern inheritance and growing up surrounded by southern sensibilities is an enduring theme in Sun Ganlu's writing.

  • New literary series views Africa through African eyes

    2010-08-05 09:27

    Tired of reading accounts of Africa through the eyes of outsiders, 14 African writers have set out to document the diversity of their content in a series of books and blogs partly inspired by the soccer World Cup.

  • Mischief maker

    2010-08-02 09:17

    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

  • Gordon Brown's book on economic crisis set for November

    2010-07-27 14:27

    Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will release a book about the global economic crisis in November, publisher Simon & Schuster said on Monday.

  • Author's advice to achieve A Complaint Free World

    2010-07-26 09:49

    Will Bowen, the author of A Complaint Free World, the worldwide bestseller that moved millions of Chinese people, recently came to Beijing to share more of his success theory.

  • Tuttle's tales of tantalizing literary trials and triumphs

    2010-07-23 09:23

    The story of how Tuttle - a Tokyo-headquartered pan-Asian publisher of some of the finest pictorial books on Asian history, language and culture - got the exclusive rights to all of martial arts legend Bruce Lee's works, is touching.

  • On the other side

    2010-07-23 09:21

    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.

  • Book Talk: A bearded lady and skinny man's love sparks novel

    2010-07-22 09:05

    For U.S. writer Ellen Bryson it was the mental image of a group of bearded women that lured her into fiction and the extraordinary world of P.T. Barnum's American Museum in New York City in 1865.

  • Little books now big business

    2010-07-21 10:00

    Publishers, librarians and experts agree: Literature for young children and adults has done better during the economic crisis than other kinds of books and is expanding.

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