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Rooney is among a number of successful western authors who have found a growing audience in China’s restless younger generation
When the manuscript of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends first arrived in Peng Lun’s inbox, he hesitated. It was 2017, and Peng – who had worked in publishing for a little over a decade – had just started his own house in Shanghai, Archipel Press.
He had heard about the clamour from publishers that resulted in a heated auction for the rights to the young Irish author’s first novel and thought it might be worth having it translated into simplified Chinese.

After arriving in Beijing as a missionary, Helen Fette introduced art deco carpets and safer, sanitary labour standards to revolutionise the Chinese rug trade At the turn of the 20th century, any ...

American Born Chinese has the makings to be Disney+’s next hit sensation. Based on the award-winning graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang, the new, original series already has some big ...

The Canton Grill building in Southeast Portland — known as one of the oldest Chinese-American restaurants in the metro area — finally has a new owner. The Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon ...

The ‘poor man’s satellite’ offers a relatively cheap way of exploiting a previously inaccessible high-altitude level of the skies
Last Friday, Enildo Altamar and his neighbours looked up into the clear morning sky above Arroyo de Piedra, near Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and saw a white orb floating above them, a smaller version of the moon.
“We are used to seeing drones in the area as they monitor local mines but they fly around, whereas this thing was massive and just hung in the air,” Altamar said.

Falling fertility has been hard to reverse, despite so many governments’ best efforts, because it’s not one thing, it’s everything.

The discovery that a Chinese spy balloon shot down off the U.S. coast had ... The incursion, which until last week was largely unknown to much of the American public, seems to mark a new era of ...

The action to cut off five Chinese companies and a research institute from American parts and technologies is part of the Biden administration’s response to the balloon it shot down last week.

Disney+ has revealed some of the guest stars for the upcoming new series American Born Chinese! The new show, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Gene Luen-Yang, already features quite the ...

While Everything Everywhere All At Once has returned to theaters following its whopping 11 Oscar nominations, fans of last year’s indie hit can also look forward to seeing its cast back together again ...

James Hong was just confirmed to be reuniting with his previous onscreen family members Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu in American Born Chinese. Hong is not the only new addition to the ...

Government’s new commitment to remove devices made by Hikvision and Dahua from buildings sweeps 2021 advice aside
An Australian intelligence agency declared a year ago it was up to government departments whether to use equipment from Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua, despite a new bipartisan push to remove such devices.
The advice from the Australian Signals Directorate was published in late 2021, at a time when the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, was defence minister.