Confucius will feature prominently in next year's literary offerings, besides books on Shanghai and wildlife.
There are some really good personal finance books on the shelves these days -- volumes that can help you manage your money better, earn more on your investments, or plan a good retirement.
"Politics and media make us possessors of information, while literature teaches us how to utilize it," 82-year-old German writer Martin Walser said at the 21st Century Annual Best Foreign Novel awards ceremony last week at Peking University.
Zhou Ruchang had written Cao Xueqin's biography for international readers.
The legacy of A Dream of the Red Mansions (紅樓夢(mèng), also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) takes another important turn some 250 years after the great classic was written.
After a year like 2009, even the most driven workaholic may be tempted to relax with a novel rather than a business book this holiday season.
Renowned Chinese writer Yan Geling's first English novel, The Banquet Bug, returns to the author's motherland in simplified Chinese, and is creating quite a buzz among her fans.
People's Literature, China's prestigious monthly literary journal, has dedicated its December issue to new overseas Chinese literature, with three novellas, one novel, one short story, one essay and a collection of poems.
The year 2009 has been a year of good harvest for Chinese writers in terms of international recognition.
British-Chinese writer Hong Ying spent nights conversing with stains on the ceiling of her attic and hearing bats beating their wings against the wall in the darkness.
After so many years, and so many lists, you might think the task of choosing the 10 Best Books would get easier. If only. The sublime story collections alone created agonies of indecision.
At the first Fu Lei award for translations ceremony held at Peking University on Sunday, the guest of honor, French author and the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008 laureate JMG Le Clezio, shared an anecdote.
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