by Project Pengyou on July 14th, 2014
What China books are worth reading?
The once mysterious Middle Kingdom has long since been opened to the outside world, and where there was previously a dearth of good literature, there’s now a mountain of China books. Continue reading
A China Reading Rainbow | China Hang-up已关闭评论
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014
I stumbled across the first four of these eBook specials earlier today, and thought I’d share the information. With the UK and elsewhere paying a lot of
Penguin Books’ China eSpecials – World War I, History & Politics已关闭评论
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Posted: 07/10/2014 9:08 am EDT Updated: 07/10/2014 9:59 am EDT Print Article
Imagine if all book covers are black, and the titles and the authors’ names are printed in white. There is no visual language, no identity, no warmth, no genial introduction. And the feeling is not different when we see books with covers of the same shade, images, and layout. Continue reading
Books With (Almost) Identical Covers已关闭评论
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Posted: 07/02/2014 9:57 am EDT Updated: 07/02/2014 9:59 am EDT
By Sarah Jane Abbott for Off the Shelf
Sitting down to write a piece on To Kill a Mockingbird is a daunting task — what could I possibly have to say about this enduring American classic that hasn’t already been said? It won the Pulitzer Prize, Continue reading
The One Book You Need To Read To Understand America已关闭评论
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In May, the U.S. announced the indictment of five Chinese hackers for breaking into the computers of U.S. companies. The men went by code names like UglyGorilla and KandyGoo. A recent report revealed that the hackers, Continue reading
Inside the Mind of a Chinese Hacker-Mai Jia’s Novel “Decoded”已关闭评论
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Posted: 07/01/2014 4:41 pm EDT Updated: 07/01/2014 5:59 pm EDT
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The Book We’re Talking About: ‘California’ By Edan Lepucki已关闭评论
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July 6 @ 2:30 pm – July 18 @ 8:00 pm
Set up in 2004, the Poetry Translation Centre supports the translation of poetry Continue reading
My Voice: a Decade of Poems from the Poetry Translation Centre – book tour已关闭评论
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Leta Hong Fincher
After the 1949 revolution in China, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that ‘women hold up half the sky.’ In the early years of the People’s Republic, Continue reading
Leftover Women-The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China已关闭评论
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