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From the AP, via Las Vegas Sun: The Penguin Group has purchased the English-language rights to China’s best-selling novel, “The Wolf Totem,” for a record $100,000. Jiang Rong’s 2004 Chinese-language novel about the struggle for life on the Mongolian grasslands will be published in English in 2007, An Boshun, Jiang’s agent with Changjiang Literary Art […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Local authorities on Tuesday seized a rural activist who has been leading a high-profile legal campaign against the use of forced sterilization and abortion in China, apparently trying to prevent him from speaking about abuses in his hometown with senior government officials who had expressed support for his cause. The detention […]
Read MoreFrom Internetnews.com: In Beijing Baidu has edged past Google because of its strong following with the “generation of cool,” as the report’s author, Weigang Lu, CNNIC senior analyst, noted. This generation is made up of Chinese users in junior and senior middle middle schools and university students. Beijing students with a three-year university education or […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Separatists in China’s far-flung, predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang are the main terror threat to the country, killing 160 people and wounding 440 over the past decade, officials were quoted on Tuesday as saying. Beijing keeps a tight grip on northwestern Xinjiang, which shares a border with Afghanistan, Pakistan, three former Soviet republics, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The death toll inflicted by typhoon Talim rose to 67 in east China’s Anhui province and 18 others were reported missing, according to the latest statistics from the provincial flood and drought control and prevention headquarters. The disaster has affected a population of over 6 million with direct economic losses forecast at 4.12 […]
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