After waiting anxiously for nine years, fans of Chinese author Zong Pu were thrilled to hear that the 81-year-old writer has published the third of her four-novel series, Prelude of Wild Calabash (Ye Hu Lu Yin).
When Suzan Colon was laid off from her dream job as a magazine editor in New York, her mother came up with some advice that has led to the next chapter of her life -- "put up soup," or resort to fortifying foods.
While stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie remain the favorite of fans of the detective fiction genre in China, Chinese youth are eyeing a more diversified collection.
Chinese website has removed a translation of Dan Brown's latest best-seller following complaints that it used copyrighted material without permission.
When Yang Xianyi's mother was pregnant with him, she had an unusual dream: She saw a white tiger leap into her lap.
Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. He was 94.
Promoting Chinese literature to the rest of the world was a focus of the Beijing Book Fair that ended on Sunday.
Cherie Blair launched the Chinese edition of her new book, "Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography", at the Shanghai Book Fair last week. The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair signed copies of her memoirs and met with local media to discuss her life as a top-ranking barrister, the wife of a leading politician and a mother of four.
Forty years ago next week, on July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin became arguably the most famous second-place finisher in history.
Dressed in a sharp, light summer frock, Professor Yu Dan sits in the cafeteria of a posh Beijing hotel, sipping from a largish glass of green tea.
For a Chinese reader accustomed to dramatic, breath-taking plots, Australian author Alexander McPhee Miller's Landscape of Farewell (2007) is not an enticing choice.
The beautiful and forever ambiguous The World of Suzie Wong was one book that helps seal Hong Kong's reputation as the hedonistic Pearl of the Orient.
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