Snapshots
Eastern mystic
2012-06-15 12:45
American writer and translator Bill Porter says he could have been Chinese in his last life."Perhaps I was an ancient Chinese," the 69-year-old quips, because when he first learned Chinese in the late 1960s, he found vernacular Chinese quite difficult, while classical Chinese was easier.
Bittersweet tales
2012-06-08 12:41
Eating Bitterness: Stories from the front lines of China's great urban migration is a series of true stories about eight migrant workers who came to the city of Xi'an from the nearby countryside.
The sky's the limit
2012-06-01 07:56
Beyond standard economic indicators of prosperity, certain industries can be seen as a microcosm of a country's maturity.
Portraits of change
2012-05-25 12:54
Tong says the album shows the owner's tenacity and persistence in taking those photos. And it provided an uncomfortable reminder to Tong of his personal lack of determination to take photos of his son.
A gigantic talent
2012-05-11 11:43
Zhang Wei's writings reflect an amazing stamina. The author who prefers solitude shares the secret of his vigor with Chitralekha Basu and Zhao Ruixue.
Characters come alive in lively language and dialect
2012-05-04 11:09
Author of Story of a God Sun Shixiang succeeds in creating many unforgettable characters, apart from the protagonist, in succinct language peppered with local dialect.
Rural revelation
2012-05-04 11:09
Sun Shixiang, who wrote Story of a God, dies as a little-known author. But his candid fiction on China's countryside is set to raise his profile. Liu Jun reports.
Other worldly
2012-04-20 14:38
Anni Baobei reveals rare bits of her personal life and explains the spiritual themes in her prose.
Voices in his head
2012-04-13 15:09
The writer Han Dong is difficult to pin down and is full of surprises
Fantasy history is a novel idea as authors delve into the past
2012-04-06 11:32
Time travel to ancient dynasties gives readers a sense of escape, reports Xu Junqian in Shanghai.
Shanghai girls
2012-03-30 15:49
Is it true what they say about the city's women? And what are they saying?
The library of Li Er
2012-03-23 10:41
One of China's best-known writers of literary fiction talks about his latest anthology of short fiction.
Guo Jingming: man of many parts
2012-03-09 11:27
China's best-selling writer Guo Jingming is slim and suavely dressed in a creamy Western-style morning coat and a cute, white bow tie.
Read your leader
2012-03-02 14:04
What China's government officials pore over are a guide to what they're thinking.
From absurdity to reality
2012-02-24 10:57
Author Bi Feiyu says his storytelling has now moved from the fantastical to the literal.
Through a glass, warmly
2012-02-17 10:47
Hong Ying has followed up on her two hit novels, inspired by her life experiences, with what she calls a supplement about the good things in her childhood.
Battle of words over the future of poetry
2012-02-03 10:46
It may mark a turning point for China's traditional publishing houses that they have no plans to publish the works of last year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, despite having printed the collections of previous laureates.
Eyes on the Prize
2012-01-20 10:06
Editor's note: With five Nobel prizes set to be announced over the next few days, Thomson Reuters looks at who may be in the running for the awards.
One for the ages
2012-01-13 11:14
The first edition of Pathlight: New Chinese Writing shows the best of Chinese literature to the rest of the world, in the estimation of Chitralekha Basu.
Follow the light to read with insight
2012-01-13 11:14
Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, the first English-language issue of People's Literature magazine, was published for the first time in November.
E-paper
We will not give up search, Li vows
International hunt for missing airliner continues after fruitless six-day search
Forum puts host district in the spotlight
Shenyang rocks with heavy metal
'Chinese Bridge' for UK students
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