Compared to Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, who enjoys a wide readership in China and is a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize for literature, the newly minted laureate Patrick Modiano seems less-known among general Chinese readers. But the French writer is held in high esteem by the literary circles, who believe that the Modiano's win is well-deserved if unexpected.
By filing a lawsuit against the Hunan provincial education and examination board, Zhang Yiyi, a controversial writer who is notorious for promoting himself, has successfully pushed himself into the limelight again.
The past summer witnessed the Ice Bucket Challenge going viral on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of the Twitter. Following in its path more recently is the Book List Challenge.
Chen Xiwo, whose works often tend to be interpreted as erotic and violent, might actually be a closet romantic, as Chitralekha Basu and Sun Li discover.
Xue Yiwei's Empty Nest tells the story of a swindled elderly woman.
Part memoir, part reflection on business life, Good Enough for the Bastards is a best-seller by Anita Krohn Traaseth, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Norway, encouraging women to reach for the top jobs.
Young writers tell stories of their journeys of growth based on their personal experiences, Xing Yi reports.
China has begun to publish national survey findings of the population and property loss during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Tory Burch's new book is all about color, a compilation of the influences that inspire her, from people to music to art to culture to travel to home design.
Huihan Lie, a 36-year-old Dutch citizen, never expected he would someday make a profession out of helping fellow overseas Chinese find their roots through jiapu or "ancestry book", when he first visited China in 2004.
The first sound one hears in the morning after waking up at a traditional Chinese college in Shengshuiyu township is the loudspeaker broadcast of Di Zi Gui. The book, written in 17th century and based on the teachings of Confucius, emphasises the basic requisites for being a good person and guidelines for living in harmony with others.
Fashion designer Emily Xiaodan Yu, who went to learn and earn in New York more than a decade ago, has unveiled her latest book: On and Beyond, A View on Fashion by a New York Designer.
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