Taiwan's tourism industry warmly responded to the announcement of a policy Sunday that will allow mainland tourists to visit the island as individuals.
Earth Past (2007): University student astrophysicist Ye Wenjie witnesses the persecution and death of her father at the hands of the Red Guards in 1967. She is sent to be re-educated in the countryside and subsequently charged with being a counter-revolutionary.
Nation's most prolific and popular sci-fi writer says he writes for the masses and is simply driven by a never-ending curiosity. Chitralekha Basu and Guo Shuhan report.
The year 2010 turned out to be particularly eventful for Chinese science fiction writing. International attention was evident at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where French publishers and Japanese sci-fi magazines showed strong interest, the latter carrying special reports on the evolution of science fiction writing in China.
"I spent a longer time wiping my tears than writing," Su Wei-chen recalls, referring to her book Vagrants in Time (2006) which she has dedicated to her husband who died of cancer in 2004.
Directed by Siu-Tong Ching, the film starts as a melodramatic tale of forbidden love between an official (Zhang Yimou) of the first emperor's retinue and one of the imperial concubines (Gong Li).
Sima Qian's lively narration of the life of an emperor who preceded him by a century is full of anecdotes, although some of these stories are probably apocryphal.
While nothing compares with seeing one of the country's hottest tourist draws in person, you can make that experience richer with some advance reading on the famed Terracotta Warriors.
According to the 2010 Top 25 Richest Chinese Writers list, Yang Hongying is at top position with 25 million yuan ($3.76 million). At the bottom, is Jia Pingwa with 1.6 million yuan.
The 2010 Top 25 Richest Chinese Writers list shows that serious works are losing out to popular books. Mei Jia reports.
"Since publishers are not willing to reveal the precise number of copies sold, I've had to resort to some rather primitive methods to get to the truth," Wu says.
Unveiling a crisis' hidden history. Two business journalists, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, have written a thorough account of the origins of the financial crisis of 2008.
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