Blog Category - Books

Book Review: Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The expat is a curious species, especially the China variety – so often found shunning the local language for a dialect more given to bragging...
True Beijing Murder Mystery Wins Top US Prize
The riveting true-story of a 1930s murder of a young British expat in Beijing...
Talking Entertainment: Your Weekend Guide to the Arts
A reality TV competition will be used to cast talent for Transformers 4 in China. This news came from the China Movie Channel and its sister website...
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Burn Your Books: Kindle Finally On Sale In China?
An Amazon e-bookstore and e-reading apps have been available in China for a few months now, but it it’s been up in the air whether the Kindle itself...
Talking Entertainment: Your Weekend Guide to the Arts
Django Unchained has been removed from theaters in China. The Guardian...
  The latest 3-D visual feast from Disney arrives in Beijing cinemas next Friday. Oz the Great and Powerful, a fantastical prequel to the classic The...
Faces of JUE: Kadi Hughes Talks Literature
In our March issue, we talked to seven personalities of the JUE Festival to tell us more about each of the seven elements of JUE. Kadi Hughes...
  Two new books are being launched in Beijing this weekend. Nothing Gained by Phillip Kim, a thriller set in the banking world of Hong Kong, will...
 Ellen Forney Draws her Highs and Lows
  Ellen Forney is a cartoonist. She is also bipolar. These two facts about her are plain to see in Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me....
Book Fair: Two Truckloads of Reading To Help Cancer Patient
  With all the literary activity in Beijing this month (we spotted...