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<div>From: Paper Republic Newsletter <<a href="mailto:news@paper-republic.org">news@paper-republic.org</a>></div>
<div>Subject: Paper Republic Newsletter, Aug. 2012</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-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/94/">Eric
Abrahamsen </a>, with research and writing from Kristine Fu.</p>
<h3>Feature</h3>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/280/">Looking Backward for New Educational Materials</a></h4>
<p>As the summer vacation nears its end, children's books and teaching materials are becoming a popular topic again among publishing professionals and concerned readers.</p>
<p>Beginning last year, a small group of earnest publishers including Lao Liu ( <span class="char">张立宪 </span>, famous as the editor of the literary review <em>Duku </em>, <span class="char">读库 </span>) and Yu Xiaoqun ( <span class="char">俞晓群 </span>) have
been trying to re-launch teaching materials that ...</p>
<h3>News</h3>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/281/">New Proposal for Controlling Book Discounts</a></h4>
<p>On the last day of July, the general manager of Beijing Beepub, a privately-owned publishing company, wrote a Weibo post saying that the gap between discounts for online booksellers and the discounts for traditional distributors would not only result in
the large-scale closure of bookstores, but would also damage publishing houses in the end. His online complaint about the biased ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/282/">New (Old) Management for China Book International</a></h4>
<p><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/283/">China Book International </a>has long been China's most prominent source of translation funding for Chinese books bought
by foreign publishing houses. First formed in 2004 by the Information Office of the State Council ( <span class="char">国务院的新闻办公室 </span>) and the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP, <span class="char">出版新闻总数 </span>), the program has been
administered by the China National Publications Import and Export Corporation (CNPIEC ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/284/">Man Asian Literature Prize Deadline</a></h4>
<p>The <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/285/">Man Asian Literary Prize </a>, is now accepting submissions for its 2012 prize round, deadline August 31, 2012.
the MALP is awarded to a novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and already published: submission should be done by the publisher, up to three titles per imprint. The author of the winning novel receives ...</p>
<h3>New Books</h3>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/286/">Notes of a Crocodile</a></h4>
<p>This the second book by legendary Taiwanese writer <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/287/">Qiu Miaojin </a>, first published one year before she ended her life
with a knife in Paris in 1995, at the age of 26. Famous for her innovative writing style and her harried ...</p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/288/">One and One Man</a></h4>
<p><em>One and One Man </em>is columnist Shen Fuyu's fourth book. A long-standing figure in Chinese New Journalism, Shen has done much to further the development of Chinese non-fiction writing. Much like his first book, <em>Don't Cry ...</em></p>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/289/">The Waste Land: The Complete Poems of T.S. Eliot</a></h4>
<p>This collection, based on <em>The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot </em>published by Faber and Faber in 1969, is the first full collection of Eliot's poetry to be ...</p>
<h3>Events</h3>
<h4><a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/290/">Beijing International Book Fair</a></h4>
<p>The 19th annual <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/291/">Beijing International Book Fair </a>runs August 29 to September 2 this year, in the new <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/292/">China
International Exhibition Center </a>. Korea will be this year's <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/293/">Guest of Honor </a>. A full list of events can be found
on the <a href="http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-industry-newsletter-july-2012/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/294/">online schedule </a>(the English-language listing starts on page 137); below are a few highlights:</p>
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