MCLC: Paper Republic newsletter 2/7

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Paper Republic newsletter 2/7
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The China Publishing Industry Newsletter is a monthly mailing on new
happenings in the Chinese literary and publishing scenes.

News

Twenty "Future Masters"
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A small conference was held in Beijing in January announcing twenty young
writers who'd made a list of "Future Masters". The idea behind the
competition, run by People's Literature magazine, Shanda Literature (aka
Cloudary) and a media company from Chengdu, is to identify 20 young
writers of potential―something like the New Yorker 's "20 under 40". The
...

New Magazine: Super Nice
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Han Han's short-lived magazine Party continues to influence China's
magazine scene from beyond the grave: a new publication that's proving to
have legs is Super Nice, a magazine published by Shen Haobo's
commerically-oriented, forward-thinking publishing company Xiron. First
published in August of last year, this new monthly is helmed by "Nanpai
Sanshu", the pen-name of Xu ...

Job: Assistant Professor in Translation
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University is hiring an Assistant Professor in
Translation:

"The appointee will be required to (a) engage in teaching and related
learning activities in Translating at both undergraduate and postgraduate
levels; (b) engage in scholarly activities in topics related to
Translating; (c) take up an important role in curriculum design and
subject development in Translating, and engage ...

Death of a Literati
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December 21st brought news that Mu Xin (木心) had passed away. Born in 1927,
Mu Xin (real name Sun Pu) was a literati of the old water: a poet,
essayist and painter who embodied many of the old traditions of Chinese
art and aesthetics. He was also a bit of a firebrand―kicked out of the
Shanghai school where he ...

New Books

Corolla Virus 
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In the fictional city of "Yancheng", a mysterious disease caused by the
"Corolla Virus" breaks out, throwing the whole city into disorder and
terror. Borrowing on her experiences with Beijing's 2003 SARS epidemic, Bi
Shumin weaves a complex tale of ...

Love and Bruises 
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A girl named Flower follows her ex-boyfriend from Beijing to Paris, only
to be refused once again. Soon she meets a working-class French man named
Mathieu, and the two begin a passionate, barely-controlled love affair, an
affair that brings solace to them both ...

The Criminal Lu Yanshi
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This slim novel, narrated by the granddaughter of Lu Yanshi, tells the
story of one Chinese intellectual's tragic experiences from the 1920s to
the 1990s. Like Yan Geling's other stories, Criminalsticks close to love,
cruelty, kindness, and family ...

The Yang Woman 
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Zhang Yihe, daughter of the 'number one leftist' and Chinese Democratic
League founder Zhang Bojun
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try-newsletter-1220/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/222/>, spent the years 1970-79
in a labor camp in Sichuan, serving out a sentence as a
counterrevolutionary. While there, she recorded the tales of other female
prisoners ...