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Chinese government funds books that support claims of Chinese government Monday we wrote about the benefits of arts funding for the book world, in particular France’s impressive new efforts to defend bookstores and thus all of literary culture. Today we look… Read more »
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In China, prisoners and die-hard party members own piracy An op-ed in The New York Times by Chinese writer Yu Hua calls attention to the ongoing question of book piracy in China—and asks whether it is really such a… Read more »
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The rise of the agent model in Chinese publishing With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »
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Not your typical author tour Chinese author Li Chengpeng’s reading at Zhongguancun bookstore in Beijing didn’t go exactly as planned: Li was punched in the head by a man who (as the South China Morning… Read more »
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Weiwei-isms, or What was that again? A collection of tweets, aphorisms, and musings on topics like freedom of expression, art and activism, and the future of China… Read more »
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In China, mobile phones may prove a boon for literature There has been a great deal of attention paid to China, publishing and copyright this past year, and now, some reporters and publishers on the ground are offering a more… Read more »
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Desperately seeking Grandpa Wen The Chinese edition of the New York Times, inaugurated earlier this year (see this MobyLives post), faced its first public challenge last Friday, when both the English and Chinese editions… Read more »
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Grab the kids and head on down to Mo Yan Land! News spread late last week that administrators in the village of Gaomi, China have been considering transforming the town into what one official called the ”Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone” after… Read more »
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Japanese books pulled out of Chinese bookstores Major bookstores in Beijing have stopped selling books by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami’s newest tome 1Q84… Read more »
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Fifty Shades of Grey wastewater in Shanghai As a lover of printed matter and tactics of protest, it is with interest that I read the news of a massive demonstration this past Saturday in Qidong, an eastern… Read more »
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