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By Zhang Kun
More than 50 authors from nearly 20 countries will gather in Shanghai and share their ideas about books and how they shape and enrich people's lives at the 8th Shanghai International Literary Festival, from Friday to March 21.
By Chitralekha Basu
The mood is upbeat at the Australian Embassy in Beijing in the run-up to the third edition of the Australian Writers' Week (AWW) in China, due to run in Beijing and Chengdu, from March 8 to 14.
By Chitralekha Basu
Seventy authors. Three cities. More than 100 events. The Bookworm International Literary Festival (BILF), a two-week celebration of the word – spoken, written, performed – and wordsmiths has grown from 15 to 70 authors in just four years, and not just in numbers.
By Pauline D Loh
Compared to most Western chefs, Chinese ones serve up more vegetables, barring the strictly vegetarian cook. Greens appear on the Chinese table in many ways, both cooked and uncooked.
By Yang Guang
Writer Ye Zhaoyan is bent on a switch, after depicting "the reality of myth" in Hou Yi, 2006, a novel that reconstructs the ancient Chinese tale of Chang E and her self-banishment to the moon.
By Mei Jia
Migrant workers are an oft-neglected aspect of the Chinese economic success story. While there have been other books on them, a new novel offers an impressive account of what it means to be one, by someone who has lived that life.
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