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A new novel appeals to China's soul-seeking readers.
Savvy operator spills the beans in “Investigative Reporter: A Decade Undercover” (暗访十年)
Han Han's much-ballyhooed magazine Party has been out for nearly a month, and readers are finding it tamer than they'd hoped.
A native Chinese speaker with a knack for recruiting fiction that sells in the West
Head of the publishing and bookshop group was apparently the victim of a premeditated attack
A new bookstore dedicate to all (most?) things Tibetan.
Public intellectual wannabe Han Han, musicologist Zhou Guangqin, émigré authoress Chen Yuhui…