Move aside manga, it's time for mystery

While stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie remain the favorite of fans of the detective fiction genre in China, Chinese youth are eyeing a more diversified collection.

Best-seller yanked from Web

Chinese website has removed a translation of Dan Brown's latest best-seller following complaints that it used copyrighted material without permission.

Man of many words

When Yang Xianyi's mother was pregnant with him, she had an unusual dream: She saw a white tiger leap into her lap.

Giant of literature, Yang Xianyi, dies at 94

Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. He was 94.

Carved into culture

Since opening on Sept 27, the grand Mystery of Red Sandalwood exhibition in Taiwan's financial center Taipei 101 has attracted throngs.

Through the looking glass

When photographer Chen Haiwen tried to take pictures of the Jingpo ethnic group in Yunnan province for his ambitious photo album featuring all of China's 56 ethnic groups, he ran into a problem.

Five hundred signature Chinese books donated by Chinese people from all walks of life are ready to be exhibited and given out to German readers at the five-day 2009 Frankfurt International Book Fair (FIBF) beginning today.

Scramble to publish Nobel laureate's works in Chinese

Herta Muller (pictured), winner of the 2009 Nobel prize for literature, has caught publishing houses in the Chinese mainland unawares - none of the books of the new Nobel laureate have yet been translated and published.

Love finds conflict in Schiller masterpiece

Germany's Meininiger Theater is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of German playwright Friedrich Schiller with his masterpiece Intrigue and Love.

Ni Hao, Blinky Bill!

Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the cutesy gumnut babies, imagined in the form of tender Eucalyptus (gum tree) kernels, will soon invade Chinese nurseries.

A comic dynamo who draws outside the lines

The two-volume graphic novel Abi-Sword, a martial arts epic infused with exceptional calligraphic brush skills, is being re-released 18 years after its creation to appeal to a more international audience.

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Separating the strands of a 'work in progress'

In 2007, Urban China - primarily an architecture magazine published from Beijing, but essentially an attempt to chart China's progress toward modernization at breakneck speed - was invited to participate at the Kassel Documenta 12.

Linking cultures with words

Chabbi encountered Li's works in 2004 when a friend recommended Afternoon Poetics (Wuhou de Shixue), a collection of the writer's short stories.

Heart of the countryside

Writer Li Er was not surprised when German Prime Minister Angela Merkel invited him for a talk, for the second time, during her visit to China last year.