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The Language Adventures of René in China

Occasional Danwei contributor Peter Micic is the author of a new Chinese language textbook The Language Adventures of René in China . This is how Micic describes the book: I've poured myself into it. I wrote, tweaked and adjusted it 'til I got...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2010 4:12 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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2013: The Fat Years -- Interview with Chan Koonchung

A brief interview with Chan Koonchung (aka John Chan or Chen Guanzhong 陈冠中）, author of the near future dystopian novel 2013, The Fat Years (盛世：中国2013年). Also on Tudou . See also earlier Danwei Q&A with Chan . This article is from Danwei.org . tweet...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2010 11:19 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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This month in Chinese SF

Science Myths , 1976-79 Below are some highlights of a monthly newsletter compiled by the World Chinese-Language Science Fiction Research Workshop. Launched with the June issue , the newsletter will be released in Chinese and English on the 20th of every...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2010 3:53 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Travels with Herodotus in Chinese

An interview with Wu Lan (乌兰), Chinese translator of Polish writer Ryszard Kapuściński's book Travels with Herodotus . Shot and edited by Eric Mu, at the Hall of Brief Snow in Beihai Park. Tags : books , Kapuściński , Travels with Herodotus , Wu Lan...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2010 5:38 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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A fantasy novel in a serious literary magazine: Guo Jingming in Harvest

Illustration for Mark of the Cavalier by oneone Guo Jingming (郭敬明), the magazine editor and writer of phenomenally-popular YA fiction, has a novel coming out in the summer supplement to Harvest ( 收获 ), one of China's most respected literary magazines...

Published Fri, May 05 2010 6:14 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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What we talk about when we talk about China to Google

Scholar, author and China Beat co-founder Jeffrey Wasserstrom gives a talk at Google about his book China in the 21st Century: What everyone needs to know . Tags : books , Jeffrey Wasserstrom This article is from Danwei.org . tweet facebook bookmark HaoHao...

Published Thu, May 05 2010 10:18 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Dreaming in Chinese by Deb Fallows

Deborah Fallows has lived and travelled in China for four years, studying the language and applying it to survive in daily life. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Harvard, and is author of A Mother's Work (Houghton Mifflin). She and her husband, writer...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2010 12:55 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Tilting at the Customs Administration over confiscated books

You've taken a trip to Hong Kong and are returning with a stack of reading material that you can't normally find on the mainland. To your dismay, the customs agent seizes your books, but won't tell you why. What do you do? Sue! Southern Weekly...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2009 6:27 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Emily Xu's translation of Tyrannicide Brief

Geoffrey Robertson is a well-known human rights lawyer whose reputation extends around the world. He has written numerous books about his occupation and the latest, Tyrannicide Brief , is a historical account about putting King Charles I on trial in England...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2009 12:00 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Wang Gang on English and the Cultural Revolution

Wang Gang (王刚) author of the novel English (英格力士), a best-selling novel based on the author's childhood in Urumqi, Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution talks to Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn. Film shot and edited by Patrick Carr of Mandarin Film...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2009 11:48 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Woman of Shanghai and the marketing of Chinese literature in translation

Woman From Shanghai , by Yang Xianhui, translated by Wen Huang Yang Xianhui's Chronicle of Jiabiangou (夹边沟纪事), a book of stories of a rightist camp in Gansu Province during the 1950s, was recently translated by Wen Huang and published under the title...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2009 8:26 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Jia Pingwa's banned novel returns after 17 years

The 1993 and 2009 editions of Feidu Jia Pingwa's controversial novel Feidu (废都, often translated as "Abandoned Capital"), which caused a sensation upon its publication in 1993 and was banned the same year, has returned to print after sixteen...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 11:20 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Jin Yong joins the China Writers' Association

Jin Yong's new badge The China Writers' Association's recent public announcement of more than 400 candidates for admission this year is notable for two reasons. First, it includes a notice inviting the public to report any instances of plagiarism...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 12:43 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Foreign books for Chinese children

For Children's Day, the Beijing Times invited four writers with children of their own to talk about their views on children's literature. Yu Hua, author of Brothers and To Live , recommended classic novels like The Three Musketeers and David Copperfield...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2009 7:29 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Is this the kind of information that should be embargoed?

The Far Eastern Economic Review 's Traveller's Tales blog says that "For the last few days, China-hand journalists have been whispering and sending coded emails about the late Zhаο Zıyаng’s forthcoming memoirs" Apparently publisher "Simon...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 2:10 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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The Language Adventures of René in China

2013: The Fat Years -- Interview with Chan Koonchung

This month in Chinese SF

Travels with Herodotus in Chinese

A fantasy novel in a serious literary magazine: Guo Jingming in Harvest

What we talk about when we talk about China to Google

Dreaming in Chinese by Deb Fallows

Tilting at the Customs Administration over confiscated books

Emily Xu's translation of Tyrannicide Brief

Wang Gang on English and the Cultural Revolution

Woman of Shanghai and the marketing of Chinese literature in translation

Jia Pingwa's banned novel returns after 17 years

Jin Yong joins the China Writers' Association

Foreign books for Chinese children

Is this the kind of information that should be embargoed?