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CHINESE LIANHUANHUA: A CENTURY OF PIRATED MOVIES

Posted on May 23, 2014 by necksbetrim
Seeing that Eric Abrahamsen’s translation of Xu Zechen’s Running Through Beijing was released by Two Lines Press earlier this month, it seems appropriate to sketch out a tradition of Continue reading

BookExpo America 2014: Books, Events and Authors to Watch for

Lisa Parkin

Social Media Consultant, YA Book Blogger

 

Posted: 05/21/2014 1:09 pm EDT Updated: 05/21/2014 1:59 pm EDT Print Article
BookExpo America commences in one week (May 29-May 31), and with hundreds of authors, events and signings, it’s a busy and confusing place to be.

I talked with a few publishers who helped me narrow down what young adult book fans should do, see and read at BEA this year. Continue reading

China: Censors work overtime for Tiananmen anniversary

 

“Keep quiet and carry on” is the slogan that can best describe China’s take on the approaching 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Continue reading

A Long Time Ago in a China Far, Far Away …

20 May 2014

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A 1980 lianhuanhua version of Xingqiu dazhan 星球大战 (Star Wars)A few of my lianhuanhua (the Li Huiniang – a reprint – is unusually large)

A few of my lianhuanhua (Li Huiniang – a reprint – is unusually large)

As much as I don’t miss large swaths of life in China, I do look longingly at kongfz.com, Continue reading

JIN PORN MEI: COMIC BOOK ADAPTATIONS OF THE CHINESE NOVEL

Posted on May 15, 2014 by necksbetrim
The Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅1 is a notoriously pornographic vernacular Chinese novel believed to date from the late sixteenth century. Authored during the disastrous reign of the Wanli Emperor 萬里 who posterity has come to remember as a sort of Robert Baratheon of the Ming dynasty, later commentators Continue reading

Why hasn’t Beijing lifted the nationalism switch against Vietnam?

Alia | May 15th, 2014 – 5:53 pm

Up to 21 people, include 16 Chinese, were killed in riots at a Taiwanese steel mill in Vietnam on Thursday after anti-China protests spread to the center of the country from south where several other Chinese-looking factories have been set to fire or looted. These riots, which came after China moved a billion–dollar oil rig into disputed waters in the South China Sea, Continue reading

Chinese netizens call for “eye for an eye” retaliation after deadly blasts in Urumqi

Alia | May 22nd, 2014 – 7:41 pm

What is the worst that could happen after a deadly terrorist attack?  Eye-for-an-eye retaliations that counter killing with killing, which is exactly what’s brewing in China right now after yesterday’s blasts in Urumqi, capital of the country’s ethnic Xinjiang province with a dominant Muslim Uighur Continue reading

Zhejiang: list and pictures of 64 demolished Christian churches

05/21/2014 14:03

The campaign of persecution against Christians in Zhejiang has led to the destruction of places of worship, the removal or obliteration of crosses, and a month-long clashes between Christians and police over churches and other places of worship. Meanwhile, the plan to demolish the “Jerusalem of the East” moves on relentless.
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