We'll be announcing many more authors in the coming weeks. This initial list is only the international authors (plus a couple of high-profile locals). Rest assured, there will be plenty of local Chinese authors on our final program.
Bookworms Ahoy!: The 10th Bookworm International Literary Festival to Descend on Beijing, Mar 11-27
This year marks the 10th Bookworm Literary Festival, with over 300 events and workshops happening between March 11 and 27. As always, there are tons of authors from China and abroad representing their works. These are some of the highlights so far.
David Bandurski
A researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project and editor of their website, he is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village, and co-author of Investigative Journalism in China.
Tim Clissold
Having lived in China for over 20 years and successfully co-founding a private equity company, Clissold is the author is the memoir Mr. China, which has recently been translated into 12 languages.
Larry Feign
Cartoonist who's work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The Economist, Fortune, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel, and Pravda.
Ken Hom
American-born celebrity chef, TV presenter, and author of more than 80 books, he has spent more than three decades on UK television and is acknowledged as a leading expert on Asian and Chinese cuisine.
Jason Y Ng
Hong Kong-born globetrotter who spent his adult life in adult, the United States, and Canada, before settling in Hong Kong to write the recently published Umbrellas in Bloom, the first English-language book to chronicle the pro-democracy political movement in Hong Kong in 2014.
Mark O'Neill
Hong Kong-based journalist whose latest book, The Miraculous History of China's Two Palace Museums, is about China's two most famous museums in Beijing (Palace Museum in the Forbidden City) and Taipei (National Palace Museum).
Nury Vittachi
Hong Kong-based journalist and author of the comedy-crime novel series The Feng Shui Detective which has been translated into multiple languages and published worlwide.
Qiu Xiaolong
This Shanghai-born author wrote the award-winning Inspector Chen series of mystery novels Death of a Red Heroine, A Loyal Character Dancer, When Red is Black, A Case of Two Cities, Red Mandarin Dress, and The Mao Case.
Xinran
British-Chinese journalist, author, and advocate of women's issues. Her first book The Good Women of China was an international bestseller when it was published in 2002. She also wrote Sky Burial, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love.
We'll be back when there's more information about specific events when these are announced, of course. To check out the full list of authors, take a peek at the festival's website.
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I think you are tarring the wrong subject with the "Politically Correct" brush.
The Bookworm, to the best of my knowledge, stocks almost no Chinese-language books. It's an English-language bookstore.
And I believe that most of their events are in English as well.
We are in China. There's lots of opportunities for local authors to spend their time addressing Chinese audiences.
And in fact, remarkably few works by Chinese contemporary authors are even translated into English, which means they remain inacessible to non-Chinese speakers.
And there are almost no other events in Beijing that attract foreign authors except this one.
Also: Imagine what a thrill this event is for a Chinese audience that understands English.
They have a great opportunity to hear from a wide range of foreign authors.
I supppose there are additional overseas Chinese authors that could be included (and have been in the past) but my guess is the Chinese-American organizer of the festival has reached out to all that he can
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