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Former China Wall Street Journal correspondent Leslie T. Chang has written a book about migrant workers called Factory Girls . With a wonderfully light touch, Chang describes the social and economic factors behind the largest mass movement of people in history—the urbanization of China's large rural...
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Do you want a "Natural Unco Life"? Health books are big sellers in China these days, and a newly-translated Japanese health book might appeal outside the wellness marketplace with its cutesy illustrations. Uncocoro: for Natural Unco Life (大便书) is a book about intestinal health. It's written by Fujita...
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Phoenix Weekly , August 2008 Phoenix Weekly 's got another eye-catching cover story this week: "Political Books in HK" (Chinese title: "Hong Kong: Chinese 'Banned Book' Capital"), and the story generally lives up to the cover hype, for once Books about power struggles between party leaders, secret documents...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (World Affairs Press, 2006 printing) Zheng Yifan tells of going to Germany in the early 90s for an international conference on Trotsky, where he was informed that he was unqualified to join the discussion because, given that Trotsky's works were unavailable in Chinese...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (World Affairs Press, 2006 printing) Zheng Yifan tells of going to Germany in the early 90s for an international conference on Trotsky, where he was informed that he was unqualified to join the discussion because, given that Trotsky's works were unavailable in Chinese...
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Below is an excerpt from Geremie R. Barmé's book In the Red, on contemporary Chinese culture with particular relevance for the Olympic mood in China right now. The excerpt is from the chapter on Wang Shuo called ‘The Apotheosis of the Liumang ’. For the annotated text, with full references, please refer...
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Xujun Eberlein's new book of short stories Apologies Forthcoming This memoir piece 'Swimming with Mao' is by Xunjun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming . Though this non-fiction piece does not appear in the story collection, the fictional story titled 'Feathers' in the...
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Zhang Lijia is an author and journalist who spent most of the 1980s as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing. Atlas and Co. recently published Zhang's memoir of her time there, written in English called "Socialism is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China . You can buy the book on Amazon.com...
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Author Pallavi Aiyar with a Shaolin Monk Pallavi Aiyar, China correspondent for The Hindu and author of the new book 'Smoke and Mirrors', answers some questions about India and China. You can read an excerpt from the book on Danwei here . Q: What is India doing well in terms of development, and bringing...
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Smoke and Mirrors by Pallavi Aiyar Pallavi Aiyar is been the Beijing correspondent for Indian newspaper The Hindu , and has been living in Beijing since 2002. Harper Collins India recently published her book about about her experiences called Smoke and Mirrors . You can buy the book online here (and...