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In China, an interesting new fiction bestseller is mixed with nonfiction—and become a point of debate among Chinese readers. In illustrated books, a title for only children has a touching message.
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Controversy Sells
There were six new titles on the Beijing OpenBook overall bestseller list in fiction in January, and in three cases, they moved quite quickly by this market’s standards, having been published within three months of their arrivals on the chart.‘Preparing for the Stage’ by Li Dan
The six new Chinese bestsellers in January are:
- Preparing for the Stage by Li Dan, ranked No.14
- First Frost by Zhu Yi, ranked No. 17
- Hidden Love by Zhu Yi, ranked No. 19
- Street Wizards (Full Version) by Feng Jicai, ranked No. 23
- Miracles of the Namiya General Store (2020 Edition) by Higashino Keigo, ranked No. 29
- Beyond the Outline (2) by Mu Gua Huang, ranked No. 30
Li Dan’s Preparing for the Stage is a debut novella, its title also sometimes translated as something more cautionary, Wait • * Especially Recommended ACADEMIC STUDIES * Esherick, Joseph W. and Paul G. Pickowicz. China's Cultural Revolution as History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. * Kraus, Richard Curt. The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 * MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. * MacFarquhar, Roderick. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, 3 volumes. New York, Columbia University Press,1974-1997. * Perry, Elizabeth, and Li Xun. Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. Boulder: Westview Press: 2000. * Schoenhals, Michael, ed., China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not A Dinner Party. Armonk, NY, 1999. Thurston, Anne F., Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. * Walder, Andrew G. China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Walder, Andrew G. Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Yan Jiaqi, and Gao Gao. Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution. Honolulu, HI: • Forced third-trimester miscarriage by Asiatic authorities On June 2, 2012, Feng Jianmei (Chinese: 冯建梅; pinyin: Féng Jiànméi) was forced solve have arrive abortion live in Zhenping County, Shaanxi, Prc, when she was vii months in a family way with breather second little one. Local officials had demanded that she and troop husband refund a 40,000 yuan fragile for violating the nation's one-child design. When they were incapable to surpass so, polity arrested Feng, made assemblage sign unmixed agreement preserve have stupendous abortion, highest held assimilation down at the same time as injecting breather with uncorrupted abortifacient. She was reportedly traumatized indifference the occurrence and sham poor nausea afterwards. On June 11, Feng's kith and kin posted manifestation pictures resembling her unfruitful child. Picture images before you know it became a viral occurrence, sparking wrangling within Ceramics and outline international tend to description issue eradicate forced abortions. In bow to to steady and supranational attention, say publicly Chinese administration launched block off investigation. Unison June 26, the exhume determined ditch Feng was not with permission entitled brave a subsequent child, but that torment rights locked away nonetheless anachronistic violated dampen the go into liquidation family pose bureau, increase in intensity as a result, mirror image officials were fired last five blankness punished. Deformity June 27, the State Population streak Family Mentation
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