Books
October-30-2012
- Bertelsmann plans to forge largest book publisher
- Bertelsmann, Germany and Europe's largest media group, announced Monday an ambitious deal to merge its subsidiary Random House with arch British rival, Penguin.
October-27-2012
- Orhan Pamuk wins Danish prize for enriching European culture
- Literature Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk was awarded Friday the Sonning Prize, Denmark's largest cultural prize, for his contributions to European culture.
October-27-2012
- Chinese-language sci-fi awards announced
- Ten science fiction writers, publications and organizations won prizes at the third Xinyun (nebula) Awards on Saturday.
October-26-2012
- 'Song of the Migrant Workers' seminar held in Beijing
- A seminar for Liu Xunfu's new book "Song of the migrant workers," published by the Writers Publishing House, took place in Beijing on October 25.
October-25-2012
- 'Our Country' debuts in Beijing
- On October 22, He Jianming launched his new book "Our country" at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
October-24-2012
- Nobel laureate likely to become China's richest writer
- Mo Yan, the Chinese winner of 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, is likely to earn about 200 million yuan (US$32 million) this year.
October-23-2012
- J.K. Rowling's new book gets Chinese version
- The Chinese version of J.K. Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, was launched on Saturday at the Beijing Book Building.
October-22-2012
- Ultrabooks 'are the future'
- Ultrabooks will become mainstream in the future and, within two years, about 80 percent of laptops will have touch screens.
October-23-2012
- More of China's literature needs translation
- Goran Malmqvist said the existence of few translations is the main reason that Chinese literature is marginalized in the world.
October-20-2012
- China funds Buddhism dictionary
- Authorities with China's national social sciences fund have earmarked 800,000 yuan (128,000 U.S. dollars) for the compilation of a dictionary on Tibetan Buddhism, compilers said Saturday.
