Damian Barr
Posted: 04/30/2014 12:02 pm EDT Updated: 04/30/2014 12:59 pm EDT
Fiction is the willing suspension of disbelief–the reader knows they’re being kidded. The novelist’s job is to make them forget this. With memoir, the reader needs to believe you’re telling the truth. As a child I was told nobody would believe me so I pretended to be Continue reading
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
CHINESE LIANHUANHUA: A CENTURY OF PIRATED MOVIES已关闭评论
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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
BookExpo America 2014: Books, Events and Authors to Watch for已关闭评论
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“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
China: Censors work overtime for Tiananmen anniversary已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
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
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
Why hasn’t Beijing lifted the nationalism switch against Vietnam?已关闭评论
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Tagged anti-China, Vietnam
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
