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Source: Global Times Published: February 13, 2012 20:55
As love fills the air on this Valentine's Day, many of us will be preoccupied not only with dating, giving gifts, confessing a crush, or even proposing marriage, but also with the nature of love itself. As you ponder the secrets of the heart today, consider the words of some of China's contemporary ...
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Source: Global Times Published: February 09, 2012 19:58
The plight of traditional bookstores is not a new topic. Over the past few years, brick-and-mortar bookstores have been struggling to make ends meet amid fierce competition from online bookstores, and their situation just got worse.
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Source: Reuters Published: February 06, 2012 19:28
Frank Delaney knows a surefire way to capture a person’s attention. In fact, the New York Times bestselling author and former BBC broadcaster claims he can do it with only eight words.
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Source: Global Times Published: February 05, 2012 20:03
Ancient text expands China's soft power abroad
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Source: Global Times Published: January 17, 2012 20:40
Scottish writer John Burnside on Monday won the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, overshadowed this year by the withdrawal of two nominees over a sponsorship deal with an investment company.
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Source: Global Times Published: January 17, 2012 20:35
Teen novelist Guo Jingming, whose book Ages Below Critical: Mark of the Cavalier 2 was 2011’s top-selling work of fiction in China, seems to be the leading expert on what wins the hearts and minds of China’s young people. But his recent launch of After School, a teen-targeted monthly mag...
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Source: Global Times Published: December 25, 2011 18:33
Roberto Bola?o, the late Chilean poet and novelist, was a bit of a prophet: Despite living pennilessly and rather miserably his entire life, he predicted that he would achieve world fame after his death, which, surprisingly, turned out to be correct.
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Source: Global Times Published: December 15, 2011 18:23
Another new book about late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is hitting bookshelves next month, this one a graphic novel exploring the innovator's spiritual development, the publishers announced Thursday.
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Source: Global Times Published: December 13, 2011 19:59
Seeking to deliver ourselves from living in a modern-day Babel, people have long been making efforts to overcome communication barriers. Today, champions of the Chinese literature field
are doing this in their own way, introducing translations of Chinese works to the outside
world. On Novemb...
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Source: Global Times Published: December 06, 2011 18:55
When it comes to Yan Geling, writer of the novel that has been made into the upcoming movie The Flowers of War, many people think of the author's female characters, such as Tian Sufei in her book A Woman's Epic, Tasuru in Little Aunt Tasuru and Wang Putao in The Ninth Widow.
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