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Storyteller Peter Hessler embraces humor to depict life in China. Writing in first-person narrative, Hessler's work now appears online and elsewhere in Chinese.
Feng Jicai, a well-known author of "scar literature", "retrospective literature" and "culture novels", has won the 22nd Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award.
The Shanghai Book Fair will celebrate its 10th birthday with a bigger and longer session in August.
Traditional Chinese medical practitioners have often promoted the Chinese belief that foods have intrinsic "hot" and "cold" properties, but readers might be surprised to learn that the idea actually originated in Greece with the physician Hippocrates (460 BC).
Former FBI investigator Robert King Wittman has written a book about his career tracking down the world's top art thieves.
Q & A with the investigator Robert King Wittman
After reading former FBI agent Robert King Wittman's book about tracking down art thieves, screenwriter and critic Shi Hang says Wittman is a real-life Indiana Jones.
Chinese writers under 30 are stepping into the limelight with the New Wave series released in June.
Yi's history Picturing a different dream
Retired academic Yi Zhongtian is embarking on his most ambitious project to date — a series of books detailing thousands of years of Chinese history.
Latest book news around the world
Rana Mitter is determined to shed light on what is often seen in the West - although clearly not in China - as the forgotten war.
Christoph stepped out of his apartment in Beijing on his 26th birthday.
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