MCLC: China Publishing Industry Newsletter, June 2012

[Denton, Kirk]

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The China Publishing Industry Newsletter is a monthly mailing on new
happenings in the Chinese literary and publishing scenes. It is edited by
Eric Abrahamsen 

Feature

Shanghai 99 Readers: Building International Ties
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The more the Chinese government talks about the internationalization of
Chinese literature and publishing, the less seems to actually get done. A
summit here, a forum there… meanwhile, private companies and individuals
are moving ahead on their own.

Shanghai 99 Readers Culture Co, Ltd, has been at the forefront of the
private publishing movement since it was officially recognized by ...

News

Pathlight Issue 2012-2
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Issue 2012-2 of Pathlight magazine is now out! Pathlight is published by
People's Literature magazine and Paper Republic, and features short
stories and poems by contemporary Chinese authors. The magazine can be
purchased in bookstores in China, or downloaded as a free e-book in two
formats:

* Epub 
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* Mobi 
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Dangdang's Experimental E-Library Comes Under Attack
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Dangdang.com, China's largest e-retailer, announced at the end of June
that they would be taking their experimental "Digital Library" offline
temporarily. The library was launched in March, providing more than 50,000
e-books and 2,000 periodicals to Chinese universities, libraries and
research institutes. Accusations soon began to circulate that copyrighted
material was being provided for free on ...

One-Way Street Bookstore: A Thousand New Owners
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-indus
try-newsletter-june-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/274/>For all that it's
the capital of China and its de-facto cultural center, Beijing seems
strangely lacking in venues for literary events. The One Way Street
Library  
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-indus
try-newsletter-june-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/275/>( 单向街图书馆,
actually a 
bookshop), has been one of Beijing's best literary locations since January
2006, when it operated in a secluded garden near Beijing's Old Summer
Palace. At the end ...

New Books

I'll Go With You to Mecca
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-indus
try-newsletter-june-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/276/>Jian Zhi is an
unusual figure: an investor residing in the United States, he appeared at
the top of Forbes China's list of "Chinese Business Elites under 40".
Besides being a prolific author of financial and economic commentary ...

Stories from the Middle Generation
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-indus
try-newsletter-june-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/277/>It's generally
recognized in China's literary circles that the "post-70s" generation, ie
writers born during the 1970s or thereabouts, have been unjustly deprived
of fame, fortune, and a wide readership. Lacking the eminence of older
generations, and the media ...

Night Flights 
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-indus
try-newsletter-june-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/278/>This second story
collection by the deputy editor of Sanlian Life Weekly magazine, long
known for his essays and columns, shows him coming into his own as an
writer of fiction. Where his earlier collection, If the Soul Should Clap
and ...

Winter Pasture 
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-indus
try-newsletter-june-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/279/>Now in her early
thirties, essayist and poet Li Juan is an oddity in the Chinese literary
world: born in Xinjiang, she has spent most of her life in the deep
mountains, making her living as a herder and small businesswoman. She
remains ...