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Our exclusive November bestseller lists in China saw boosts from annual 'Double 11' sales and a new interest in traditional Chinese medicine.

The hit author Yu Hua reached seven spots on China's fiction bestseller charts in October thanks to a new film adaptation and its star.

Beijing Normal University, 2021. All photographs courtesy of Yu Hua.   Yu Hua was born in 1960. He grew up in Haiyan County in the Zhejiang province of eastern China, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. His parents were both in the medical profession—his father a surgeon, his moth...

Contemporary Chinese literature, from the 1980s to the present, has been highly diverse in its manifestations.

Ink and Imagination: Unleash Both in the Best Chinese Books, a Collection That Spans Genres and Eras, Crafting a Tapestry Where Each Thread Tells a Unique Tale.

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by <strong>Imogen Dewey</strong>

<strong>The long read</strong>: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

Old friends: Ten of the books on China's September Top 30 in fiction had each been on the list more than 20 times in the past.

Back in full force in Frankfurt, Chinese and Filipino publishers showcase their top titles to rights buyers during  the 75th Buchmesse.

At around 140 BC during Chinas Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian, a royal emissary, made a journey to the West from Changan (present-day Xian in Shaanxi Province), opening an overland route linking East and West. Centuries later, in the years of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, silk routes boomed over both land and at sea. In the early 15th century, Zheng He, the famous Chinese navigator of the Ming Dynasty, made seven voyages to the Western Seas, which boosted trade along the maritime silk routes.