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There are more than a billion Mandarin speakers and about 400 million Spanish speakers in the world. There should be massive exchanges of ideas and texts between these two languages.
In 2011 - two years after Jackson's tragic death - Cascio published the book My Friend Michael, to reveal "an ordinary friendship with an extraordinary man".
Novelist Zhang Wei has become a literary icon in China thanks to his prolific but diligent work.
A program brings foreign writers to Shanghai in hopes that the city would help shape their works. Some came with specific goals: To find good places to kill, to get lost or to discover new characters.
A translation contest of contemporary works in Chinese language was launched Monday to expand the country's cultural influence.
Veils, robes, conservative and distant. If you still think of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this way, it's time to refresh the stereotype.
Writers from Shandong province, where Confucius was born, brought the freshness of the seacoast to the 2013 Beijing International Book Fair that wrapped up on Sunday.
English-language editions of two entertaining and insightful novels written by one of China's most accomplished novelists, the late Lao She, will soon be on bookshelves around the country.
Over 2,000 publishers from 76 countries and regions take part in the 20th Beijing International Book Fair in Beijing, capital of China.
Chinese Calligraphy, an established step-by-step set of textbooks on the title subject is releasing its international versions.
Aydos Amantay, a young Kazak writer who grew up in Beijing, pulls the reader's heartstrings with his passionate confession about the loss of his cultural roots.
A mobile library is proving popular with book lovers in Shijiazhuang.The library, launched on Aug 18, was set up by the Hebei provincial library and is visiting various city communities every Saturday.
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