Censors in China quietly tightened restrictions late last year, particularly on books from Hong Kong and Taiwan, beginning with books about astrology. In the South China Morning Post, Oliver Chou… Read more »

It’s generally assumed that when they start teaching your particular branch of rebel outsider lit in the academy, that’s the death knell: the Rimbaud t-shirts come out, the bars get… Read more »

Earlier this month, China held its first international children’s book festival in Shanghai, welcoming European and Chinese publishers alike to the Shanghai Children’s International Book Fair. And The Bookseller’s Lisa… Read more »

In this weekend’s New York Times, the paper’s Beijing bureau correspondent Andrew Jacobs reported that Western writers have faced a dilemma recently when publishing their books in China: submit their… Read more »

It’s often called the second most published book in history, with only the Bible coming out ahead. Quotations from Chairman Mao is iconic, legendary, and emblematic of—indeed even responsible for—some… Read more »

There’s a familiar narrative you may occasionally encounter if you spend much time in translated literature circles, and that is: as countries or regions become richer or more free (sometimes… Read more »

Monday we wrote about the benefits of arts funding for the book world, in particular France’s impressive new efforts to defend bookstores and thus all of literary culture. Today we look… Read more »

An op-ed in The New York Times by Chinese writer Yu Hua calls attention to the ongoing question of book piracy in China—and asks whether it is really such a… Read more »

With China’s domestic book market booming, and spurred by the rabid demand for the work of Nobel laureate Mo Yan, the nation’s publishing industry has set its sights on a… Read more »

Chinese author Li Chengpeng’s reading at Zhongguancun bookstore in Beijing didn’t go exactly as planned: Li was punched in the head by a man who (as the South China Morning… Read more »