{"id":2199,"date":"2014-07-18T16:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:10:33","slug":"a-china-reading-rainbow-china-hang-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/a-china-reading-rainbow-china-hang-up","title":{"rendered":"A China Reading Rainbow | China Hang-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Project Pengyou on July 14th, 2014<br \/>\nWhat China books are worth reading?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/07\/booksbooksbooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2200\" alt=\"booksbooksbooks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/07\/booksbooksbooks.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s now a mountain of China books.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But not all of them are worth the time, especially for the casual reader. So for today\u2019s episode we\u2019ll sift out some of the most worthy titles for readers of varying interests.<\/p>\n<p>Helping us to figure out what makes a good China book and to share some of their recommendations are Penguin China publicist Mengfei Chen and our old friend Alec Ash, China correspondent for the LA Review of Books and curator of The Anthill writer\u2019s colony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/projectpengyou.org\/a-china-reading-rainbow-china-hang-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Project Pengyou on July 14th, 2014 Wh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/a-china-reading-rainbow-china-hang-up\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[628,629],"views":1154,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}