Uyghur Author Alat Asem's Novella Tapped for Translation into English . . . Zha Jianying on Ji Xianlin's newly translated The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (牛棚杂忆, 季羡林著) . . . Perhat Tursun, le Salman Rushdie de Chine se remet enfin à écrire . . . overseas sales of Liu Cixin's sci-fi novel, The Three-body Problem (三体, 刘慈欣著) reportedly top 100,000 . . . open letter from int'l publishers, booksellers and free speech advocates calling for HK head honcho Leung Chun-ying to defend press freedoms in the face of China's forced disappearances and detention of 5 HK-based publishing professionals . . . excerpt from Memtimin Hoshur’s This Is Not A Dream (بۇ چۈش ئەمەس) . . . Dhaka Art Summit censors Tibetan exhibit at request of China's ambassador . . . annual round-up of writing by minority authors published at Chinawriter.com.cn. . . . Pathlight to appear in Arabic, Korean and Spanish . . . Ai Weiwei plans Berlin memorial to drowned refugees . . . profiling the Hui in Ningxia