China’s capital city launched its first underground library, “M Subway•Library” on Jan 12. The theme of its first activity is “Our Characters”. Citizens riding the special train on subway Line 4 now can read e-books provided by the National Library…

Propping a wooden bird house filled with books on the back of his bike, Yan Defeng cycles around Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province, eager to find a home for his fourth “Bird’s Nest” library. The 36-year-old self-employed man is…

With the use of smartphones and tablets rising in the country, many Chinese are taking to e-reading. Xing Yi reports. With the rise in popularity of smartphones and tablets, Chinese are reading more on their palms. A recent report by…

Shanghai Big World Guinness recently recognized Beijing-based author Chen Tingyi as the Chinese writer who has produced the most biographies－101, to be precise. But the 67-year-old tells China Daily he’s proudest of pioneering biographies of politically sensitive figures rather than…

“Ball Lightning”, one of the bestselling recent Chinese science fiction novels, is to be released in English. The novel, first published in Chinese in 2005, was written by Liu Cixin, China’s most prolific and popular science fiction writer. Liu said…

Mo Yan, a Chinese writer and Nobel Prize winner, was awarded the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa, the highest honor of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski.” Mo, the first Chinese laureate of this honor in the 125-year history of the…