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<div>From: kirk (<a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a>)</div>
<div>Subject: China Publishing Newsletter, 3/12</div>
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<p id="strap">The China Publishing Industry Newsletter is a monthly mailing on new happenings in the Chinese literary and publishing scenes. It is edited by <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/94/">Eric
Abrahamsen </a></p>
<p id="strap"><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/94/"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; ">Upcoming Events</span></p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/241/">London Book Fair (Apr 16-18)</a></h4>
<p>China will be the Market Focus for this year's London Book Fair; we'll be sending out a special edition of the newsletter in a week or so with Fair-specific news. Stay tuned!</p>
<h3>Industry News</h3>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/242/">GAPP Document May Mean Controls on Copyright Imports</a></h4>
<p>China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) continues its drive to develop China's publishing industry abroad, most clearly stated in a publication known as "Document One" ( <span class="char">一号文件 </span>) which appeared this January.
Document One lays out in more detail China's general "Going Out" policy for publishing, including:</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/243/">Bookworm Talk—Future of Publishing</a></h4>
<p>The last event of every <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/60/">Bookworm Literary Festival </a>is generally focused on the future, and the closing event of
this year's festival, held March 23, was called "New, Now, Next—A Discussion on E-Publishing in China and Abroad". There were three participants: Jo Lusby of Penguin, Scarlet He of Founder/Apabi (which provides digital publishing technology and services to
...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/244/">New Restrictions on Publishing "Official Corruption" Novels</a></h4>
<p>First, a word of background on the censorship system in China. Government control happens at two stages, pre- and post-publication. Prior to publishing a book, a publishing house must submit a book proposal to the General Administration of Press and Publication
(GAPP) before it is granted an ISBN. After publication, books may be subject to random inspections of quality, editing ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/245/">Government Support for China's Privately-Owned Bookstores</a></h4>
<p>Only at the end of 2011, when the Apodon ( <span class="char">光合作用 </span>) bookstore chain, one of the largest privately-owned chains in the country, shut down practically overnight, did the difficulties facing privately-owned bookstores become a topic
of public discussion.</p>
<p>At the "Two Meetings" political conference which took place in early March, the writer Zhang Kangkang (who is a member of the People ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/246/">China's Expansion into Africa Now Includes Publishing</a></h4>
<p>On March 30 the China International Publishing Group (CIPG) <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/247/">founded </a>the ChinaAfrica Media and Publishing Ltd. corporation
in South Africa. ChinAfrica is named for a new magazine of the same name, and both magazine and corporation are a part of China's <em>Beijing Weekly </em>magazine, owned by CIPG. This is the first time a Chinese print media company has established ...</p>
<h3>New Books</h3>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/248/">It Ain't Easy, Being a Cop</a></h4>
<p>This is the story of a "little person", a low-level cop named Mai who is caught up in storms and tides beyond his control. The novel touches on hot-button social topics like forced evictions, the ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/249/">Little Beijing Beasts</a></h4>
<p>This is Lu Yao's third book, but first novel. It is the story of Li Xiaolu, who arrives in Beijing from a county capital, hoping to escape a life "whose conclusion she can see from here." After getting ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/250/">The Chinese are Bummed</a></h4>
<p>If <em>China is Unhappy </em>was China's complaint about the behavior of other countries, then this book is a complaint by the Chinese, aimed at the Chinese themselves. The author Liang Xiaosheng dissects a series of "bummer" incidents in recent ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-march-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/251/">Storm-Tossed Memories</a></h4>
<p>This book, edited by one of China's foremost poets, is a collection of memoirs from eighteen individuals who were students at Beijing's Fourth Middle School at the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution. Contributors include Bei Dao himself ...</p>
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