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
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20 May 2014
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
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
MAY 21, 2014
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The announcement, on Tuesday, that the United States has charged five members of the Chinese military with economic espionage—for hacking the computers of American companies—is an Continue reading
“THE BIG BANG THEORY” AND OUR FUTURE WITH CHINA已关闭评论
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I maintain that the best way to travel in a foreign country (or between foreign countries) is by train. I have ridden in trains across Europe and trains down the Nile. I am currently fantasizing about saving up and taking trains across India. Continue reading
12 MAY, 2014 – 22:20 By April Holloway
Last year, archaeologists unearthed 920 bamboo strips at a construction site in the south-western city of Chengdu in China, Continue reading
Ancient bamboo medical books uncovered in China belonged to legendary Bian Que已关闭评论
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By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW MAY 21, 2014 6:00 PM
Creating and consuming the erotic fiction known as danmei is a vehicle for young Chinese women to explore new identities.
Sean Yong/Reuters
Why Many Young Chinese Women Are Writing Gay Male Erotica已关闭评论
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TEA LEAF NATION05.19.14
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A Uighur vendor pushes his cart of watermelons past Chinese soldiers on patrol in Urumqi in northwest China’s Xinjiang province on July 15, 2009. Security remained tight in Urumqi’s Muslim Uighur district 10 days after strong ethnic violence broke out on July 5 and riot police maintained their presence and kept control of the area’s main bazaar.
