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Source: Global Times Published: May 17, 2012 20:50
For the last decade the Beijing book festival has been a staple for the capital, serving as a haven for literature lovers and a platform for publishers to get the word out. This year is the 10th iteration, and the festival has had to step up its game to keep ever demanding fans happy.
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Source: Reuters Published: May 16, 2012 19:05
Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America’s best-known authors and a sharp critic of governments in Mexico and the United States, died on Tuesday after a literary career spanning more than five decades. He was 83.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 13, 2012 19:25
On a Thursday morning, a group of seniors can be found sitting in a bright classroom, taking a computer course. Each student wears an earphone and carefully taps at the keyboard. Though this might resemble a regular computer training course for seniors, there is a key difference: These students are...
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Source: Global Times Published: May 02, 2012 16:30
While half of the goods sold on Oxford Street, particularly clothing, are made in China, it's perhaps unexpected that a measurable percentage of books sold in the UK and worldwide are printed in China. Following the end of the three-day London Book Fair, from April 16-18, around a hundred Chinese bo...
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Source: Reuters Published: April 26, 2012 18:00
The German state of Bavaria is considering publishing a book with excerpts from Hitler’s Mein Kampf for use in schools after its legal power to ban the book expires in 2016.
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Source: Global Times Published: April 24, 2012 19:05
A smart and savvy dragon, an aged vampire and a Beverly Hillbilly are among the richest fictional characters, according to a new ranking.
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Source: Reuters Published: April 18, 2012 19:50
When it comes to romantic drama, Nicholas Sparks, US novelist and screenwriter, has the Midas touch. He has published 16 novels, and all of his books have been global best-sellers. Seven of them, including A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, and Nights in Rodanthe have been turned into hit films.
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Source: Global Times Published: April 17, 2012 22:08
Hu Xin runs his fingers softly over the spines of novels at a bookstore, pausing as he finds a shelf filled with Sherlock Holmes books by Scottish detective fiction author Arthur Conan Doyle. The 24-year-old cinema major at university takes down all nine books translated into Chinese and carries the...
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Source: Reuters Published: April 17, 2012 19:00
Author J.K. Rowling is working on a Harry Potter encyclopedia, and will donate the royalties to charity, she has said on her website.
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Source: Global Times Published: April 12, 2012 23:50
Do universities represent the final frontier for modern Chinese poetry?
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