MCLC: Paper Republic newsletter 12/7/11

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: eric abrahamsen <eric at ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Paper Republic newsletter 12/7/11
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Source: Paper Republic:
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5400209e34e17e/>

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

Feature:

Pathlight: A New Literary Magazine
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/199/>

November 20 marked the publication of the first issue of Pathlight
magazine, a new literary publication produced jointly by Paper Republic
and People's Literature magazine (人民文学杂志). Now in a three-issue trial
period, Pathlight will focus primarily on writing from relatively new and
unknown Chinese writers, and aims to provide a comprehensive look at the
newest trends in contemporary Chinese ...

News:

Towards a Legal Structure for Digital Publishing
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/202/>

China's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP, 新闻出版 总
署） 
has been giving signs since the end of 2010 that China's digital
publishing industry, which has hitherto occupied a legal gray area, will
eventually come in for a strengthening of legal regulation and
"management".

At present, digital publishing in China slips between cracks in the
government's definition ...


One Mook Falls, Another Rises
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/203/>

Annie Baby's magazine O-pen has gone the way of Han Han's Party ,
receiving notice in early November that it would be forced to stop
publication after only two issues.

Rumors of its closure first appeared early in the morning on November 2 on
the popular Weibo micro-blogging site, but weren't officially confirmed
until the evening of the ...

Yu Hua's Digital Book of Blogs
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/204/>

An unusual entry has been made in the history of Chinese digital
publishing with Yu Hua's new book: Yu Hua @ . A collection of the author's
blogs and micro-blogs on the Tencent
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/205/>blogging platform, Yu Hua @ has the main
distinction of being China's first mainstream book to be published by a
traditional publishing house—the Red Flag Publishing ...

New Books

The Little Girl 
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/206/>

Hong Ying's latest publication is a collection of 57 short stories, mostly
set in her childhood home of Chongqing, painting short sketches of her
early life there. Hong Ying revisits the childhood scenes that constituted
her first ...

Knifepoint 
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/207/>

The newest novel from China's best-known author of spy/thriller books, Mai
Jia, Knifepoint was published separately in two volumes: Bright Blade and
Dark Blade (刀之阳面 and 刀之阴面). The story, set during China's
Anti-Japanese 
War in the 30s and 40s, is supposedly ...

Quelling Demons 
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1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/208/>

This volume is the newest in a series called "Fictional Forerunners" – a
series based on the rather brusque premise that "modern Chinese fiction of
the past thirty years has failed to live up to promise… has succumbed to
the temptations of Europe ...

Tales from Southern Gansu
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/209/>

This third and final volume in Yang Xianhui's Life Trilogy completes the
author's examination of life in rural Gansu Province, a project that began
with Farewell to Jiabiangou (translated by Huang Wen and published by
Anchor and Pantheon ...

Innocence and All That It Wrought
<http://paper-republic.org/newsletters/tracking/link/china-publishing-news-
1207/q2-a15a575400209e34e17e/210/>

Fei Dao, one of China's most-watched young science fiction authors, has
published his second collection of short works, in this case four novellas
– none of which is science fiction. He has ...