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Danwei Picks
Upcoming China-related booksPosted by Joel Martinsen, April 22, 2008 4:24 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). Publishing China Week: What you will be reading next (II): From the London Book Fair, Access Asia's Paul French looks at upcoming China titles, ranging from journalist memoirs to business analysis, history to thrillers. Also, bad titles: There's always a few with really bad titles. A candidate for this year's most over-hyped and unimaginative title is China Fireworks: How to Make Dramatic Wealth from the Fastest-Growing Economy in the World by Robert Hsu and out in May, closely followed by Becoming Your Own China Stock Guru: The Ultimate Investor's Guide to Profiting from China's Economic Boom by Jim Trippon. See also Gary Bowerman's overview in Publishing China Week: What You Will Be Reading Next, Part I
But not at the Olympic venues it seems, not even before the Olympics have even started, at least according to the report linked here. The link is to China Sports Today, a new website from the comrades at the GoKunming collective. Anti-Carrefour mob attacks American in Hunan: Shanghaiist has published an email from a volunteer teacher in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province: 'a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob'.
The torch relay in Pyongyang will enhance friendship between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and China, the DPRK's Olympic chief said Monday.
Jotman.com liveblogged the torch relay in Bangkok. The China Mogul remarks that the Thai police prepared not only for pro-Tibet protesters:
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Carl Crow's The Long Road Back to China: In 1939 Carl Crow - an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese - travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - 'the most interesting assignment I have ever been given'.
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