The Chinese translations of 10 Miles Franklin Award-winning novels have just been launched, bringing readers some of the best contemporary work and offering deep insights into Australian society.
A PLA soldier swaps the gun for a brush to showcase the nation's long history and rich culture through cartoons.
This year's prestigious Lu Xun Literature Award, the fifth since being initiated in 1986, has triggered much debate about the quality of literary creations and the criteria used to select the winners.
She has been hailed as the perfect English stylist, but "Pride and Prejudice" author Jane Austen was far less polished and more experimental than people realize, a leading academic said on Saturday.
The newly crowned Nobel laureate in literature, 74-year-old Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, is no stranger to Chinese readers.
An old China hand, Ross Terrill's latest book puts together stories of his encounters with Chinese leaders and laymen over half a century.
Spanish entrepreneur Julia Prez-Cerezo says that she finds Chinese women entrepreneurs totally inspiring.
Chen Zhongshi's novel examines the moral dilemmas that confront people caught in the midst of major upheavals, and draws richly from his own life. Liu Jun reports
J.K. Rowling may be forced to defend herself in court against charges that she copied the work of another children's author when writing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," the fourth of seven Potter novels.
At the end of 15 months of grueling writing assignments, 22-year-old Xiao Kaiyin, 25-year-old Ye Chan, 19-year-old Chen Long and 21-year-old Lu Lili, were basking in the comforting glow of the English sunshine.
Since it dived into the country's English-language market five years ago, the publisher's business has been swimmingly successful.
The amount of time children spend reading books for enjoyment decreases as they use cell phones and other mobile technology, but e-books might just bring them back to literature, according to a report released on Wednesday.
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