The country's leading female authors and critics wrangle over the current meaning of feminism in print.
The original AmazonKindle cost $400, and its screen displayed a mere four shades of gray.
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.
The tension between his northern inheritance and growing up surrounded by southern sensibilities is an enduring theme in Sun Ganlu's writing.
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.
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
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will release a book about the global economic crisis in November, publisher Simon & Schuster said on Monday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.