literature

A century-old library in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province, will reopen next Thursday after being closed for repairs for five years, with newly added hi-tech services and energy-saving facilities. Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, built in 1912 in Guangzhou ...
Yang Hongying once met Thomas Brezina, an Austrian writer of children's detective books, at a forum. Facing questions raised by the media and young readers, Yang found most of their answers were amazingly similar. "It might be that children's book writers think alike, with a ...
Known as "China's J.K. Rowling", Yang Hongying's best-selling children's works are rapidly finding a foreign audience. Yang Hongying, the first Chinese children's author to enter the mainstream English book market, at a book signing event in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. China Daily ...
The winning works of the 8th National Children's Literature Award show the growing diversity and quality of original children's books in Chinese. Cao Wenxuan, one of the winners of the National Children's Literature Award. [China Daily] "Children's writing has made much progress ...
After 7 years' of checking, sorting and compiling, the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum finally has arrived. Concentrating on the most typical and fabulous 150,000 works and carefully chosen from 1,800,000 in total, the work is split into into 26 volumes comprising ...
The second "New Insights" China-France Literature Forum opened Friday at the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature (NMMCL), attracting readers and writers from both China and France. Six French writers (most of whom have had their works published in Chinese), experts and ...
Life in a foreign land inspires writer Chen He, including his latest work Sarawak. [China Daily] Chen He is representative of a new breed of overseas Chinese writers who are gaining attention because of their diverse experiences and broad worldview. It had been eight days since ...
Yi Xiangdong, author of The Mou Manor. [China Daily] Writer Yi Xiangdong shows a rare sensitivity in his portrayal of the heroine of his latest novel, The Mou Manor. Although the Shandong-born writer has an air of bluntness that natives of that province are known for, Yi explores ...
The "Four Books" in big-seal calligraphy by Wang Youyi (second right). [China.org.cn by Yang Xi] A new edition of the "Four Books" a collection of Chinese classic texts that serve as an introduction to Confucianism has been released by Thread-Binding Books Publishing House, ...
He was known as the "teacher of tyrants". Copies of his works, deemed must-reads for any ambitious politician or businessman, used to be filled with notes by Napoleon and were bedtime reading for Hitler. Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527), political thinker, diplomat, historian and ...
The cover of Subway. [Global Times] Science-fiction writer and Xinhua journalist Han Song has released his latest novel - Subway. Dubbed "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in the age of technology" and "the Franz Kafka for the electronic age" by his publisher, the book is an ...
Writer Lawrence Block and his wife in Beijing. [Global Times] Chinese crime readers were thrilled to meet the creator of Matthew Scudder - acclaimed American writer Lawrence Block - last week in Beijing in a series of events with local writers, film directors and readers. His ...
Cover of 1Q84 Book 3. [Global Times] The Chinese edition of the much-anticipated third volume of popular writer Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 has just been published, in which the author gives a seemingly simple ending to the story of the fantastical world in the year 1Q84 - while the ...
During the Beijing Book Fair, Children's books created from cartoons and involving games are attracting much attention. Sharing ideas after reading books has also become a trend among young readers. A newly published children's series by Sichuan Children's Publishing House is ...
A set of books, pictorials and digital video discs on the history and culture of Labrang Monastery, center of the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in northwest China's Gansu Province, were launched Sunday in the provincial capital Lanzhou. The publication series focused on the ...
A page from Zombie Pie by Ca, one of the founding members of Cult Youth. They are B-movie lovers, UFO enthusiasts, sci-fi lovers, otaku, vintage fans, and urban adventurers - forever nostalgic for their childhood in the 1980s, when everything was supposedly simple and easy. Now ...
Chinese readers who care about Japanese pop culture now have a new source of information about their favorite art, manga and sitcom. Despite a year of tense Sino-Japanese relations, ZHI JP. (Understanding Japan), a bi-monthly mook, has been launched by Wenzhi, a publishing brand ...
2010 was a bumper year for Chinese literature. Here are our top picks after talking with some of the country's best-known critics and experts in the publishing industry. Fiction Top 5: Great-Flowing River By Chi Pang-yuan, SDX Joint Publishing Company The author is Taiwan's ...
A Nepalese book lover visits the Chinese book exhibition in Kathmandu capital of Nepal, Jan. 2, 2011.[Xinhua/Bimal Gutam] China is targeting a year-on-year rise of 15 percent in its book export revenue in 2011 amid stronger government efforts to promote Chinese printed publicatio...
A man who has published more than two billion copies of comic books and created Spider Man, The Incredible Hulk, X-Men and other Marvel Comics' characters, was honored with a dedication of a star on the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday. Stan Lee, chairman emeritus of Marvel ...
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Chinese celebrate Dragon Boat Festival
Chinese celebrate Dragon Boat Festival
Participants row their boats during a dragon boat race to celebrate ...
Han Dynastic Diplomacy
Han Dynastic Diplomacy
During the reign of the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (156 BC–87 BC), ...
Chinese Tamales
Chinese Tamales
Zongzi (or zhongzi) are traditionally eaten during Dragon Boat ...
Silk Flowers
Silk Flowers
These are artificial flowers made of fine woven silk in exact ...
For 1st time since 1650, torn painting is complete
For 1st time since 1650, torn painting is complete
The full pictureOne of China's best-known ancient paintings, the ...
Exhibition showcases classic Chinese art
Exhibition showcases classic Chinese art
A staff member at the National Library shows the process of repairing ...
Carry on the back and travel sharp An qing of China
Carry on the back and travel sharp  An   qing of China
Introduce Yuexi at the southwest corner of county town, tower Gao ...
The mountain travels in the courtyart An qing of China
The mountain travels in the courtyart  An   qing of China
Introduce The mountain lies within the territory of southwest Dabie ...
The west wind-tunnel travels An qing of China
The west wind-tunnel travels  An   qing of China
Introduce The west scenic spot of wind-tunnel is that China spent the ...