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The book has achieved bestseller status in China. [18] Although acknowledging the book's huge popularity in China, the Financial Times described it as only passably entertaining and its thesis as far-fetched. [10] Fred Hu, managing director of Goldman Sachs Group, said the currency wars were "non-existent". [19]
In the late imperial periods, with the wide spread of commercial printing, Chinese novels also became heavily circulated across East and Southeast Asia; [25] [26] it was reported in 1604, several hundreds of titles of Chinese books came through to the Japanese port city of Nagasaki alone, [27] [28] and throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War is a 2015 techno-thriller by P. W. Singer and August Cole. Set in the near future, the book portrays a scenario in which a post-communist China, assisted by Russia, launches a technologically sophisticated attack against the United States in the Pacific Ocean that leads to the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.
China buys many foreign book rights; nearly 16 million copies of the sixth book of the Harry Potter series were sold in Chinese translation. As China Book Review reported, the rights to 9,328 foreign titles – including many children's books – went to China in 2007. China was nominated as a Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Bookfair in 2009 ...
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
The PBS SoCal/KCET series "Artbound" kicks off its 14th season with a look at the rivalry of two venues, Madame Wong's and the Hong Kong Cafe, in the heyday of L.A. punk and new wave.
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“There is nothing new under the sun.” It’s this unstated premise that drives Kliph Nesteroff’s latest book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.” In it, Nesteroff ...