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Beijing Bestsellers: Nutrition, history, and a codeless Dan BrownPosted by Joel Martinsen, June 20, 2006 6:10 PM
Beijing is enduring a heat wave this week. As appetites wilt, it's time to think about how to get the most nutrition from the food that you do manage to get down.
Seven of ten books on this week's lifestyle bestseller list are food related. Topping the list is Eating Porridge This Way is More Nutritious, shown here. The same publishers have a similar guide to eating vegetables. The publishers of the cooking magazine Betty's Kitchen also have two books on the list, one on non-fattening dishes and another on food for women. Drink for Immunity and Food is the Best Medicine hit the health angle, and a translation of You Are What You Eat rounds out the best-sellers. TV personalities retelling history continue to be popular. Books on Heshen and Laozi in CCTV 10's Lecture Room have been bestsellers earlier this year, and return to the overall list this week. Ji Lianhai, author of The Historical Heshen has a new Lecture Room book in the top ten this week, The Historical Dorgon, about the early Qing dynasty regent. Once again, the rankings have been influenced by a book-signing event - Ji Lianhai appeared at the Xidan Book Building on the 11th as a promotion for the Dorgon book. Dan Brown has three books on the fiction list this week - not unusual given the sales of his novels this year, except for the conspicuous absence of The Da Vinci Code for the third week in a row. Mr. Brown is not the only author to benefit from the hype surrounding the early release and early cancellation of the Code movie; Lifestyle magazine reports on the popularity of thrillers:
The lifestyle bestseller list for the week of 06/09--06/15:
The overall bestseller list for the week of 06/09--06/15:
The overall bestseller list for the week of 06/02--06/08:
Bestseller rankings are taken from the Friday Book Review section in The Beijing News, which compiles its data from the city's major online and brick & mortar bookstores. Links and Sources
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