This is the 31st annual coverage on the print manufacturing industry in Hong Kong and China. Here, eight major export printing companies share their observations on the industry, talk about their operations, showcase unique projects, and lay out plans for the short term. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press was asked to suppress articles in China Quarterly. It has now resisted, but it is a worrying developmentThe international furore that followed Cambridge University Press’s compliance with “an instruction from a Chinese import agency to block individual articles from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has come under fire for putting its business priorities ahead of its academic reputation after it conceded to demands from Chinese authorities to censor hundreds of articles in one of its flagship journals. In a statement, CUP admitted removing 300 articles on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hong Kong used to be a place of relatively free speech in China, but that was before Xi Jinping’s crackdown. Now everybody from writers to booksellers, publishers and printers fear they will be next to ‘disappear’Just over a year after five publishers and booksellers disappeared from Hong Kong... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the wake of the Frankfurt Book Fair, a few international titles are heating up, among them a new gangster trilogy based in Hong Kong and an Italian self-help book about the positive side of failure. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Caution evident in buying and selling of politically sensitive material amid fears of growing repression from mainland’s Communist partyThe 2016 Hong Kong book fair, the most important event in the city’s literary calendar, opened its doors on Wednesday to familiar long queues and hordes of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Officials in Hong Kong say they will not send back a bookseller who jumped bail in mainland China, where he was detained over books mocking Chinese leaders. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
After nearly eight months in solitary confinement, one of five Hong Kong booksellers who vanished after their detention in mainland China gave a detailed account Thursday of his ordeal, defying not only a gag order but also authorities’ demand that he remand himself to custody. Lam Wing Kee,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three months after he disappeared from his home in Hong Kong, bookseller and publisher Lee Bo has returned from China, the Hong Kong government has said in a statement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author of a controversial book on China's president, believed to be the reason five booksellers from the Mighty Current publishing house in Hong Kong went missing between October and December 2015, has released the title online. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
From the Author's Guild case against Google to missing booksellers in Hong Kong, here is a list of some top publishing links from the week of January 4-8, 2016. The post Top Publishing Links of the Week: January 4-8, 2016 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suspected abduction of five booksellers prompts fears of mounting self-censorship in face of mainland crackdown on ‘salacious’ publicationsOne of Hong Kong’s leading international bookshop chains has removed politically sensitive books from its shelves in the wake of the mysterious disappearance... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
After fifth disappearance, umbrella movement’s Agnes Chow criticises China regime in video that has gone viralA young pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong has released a video, which has gone viral, attacking Beijing’s campaign of “political suppression” following the disappearances of five... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A rare drawing of comic book adventurer Tintin has sold for 9.6 million Hong Kong dollars ($1.2m; £0.8m) at an auction in Hong Kong. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
London bookshop Heywood Hill has appointed Charlotte Merritt to the new role of the shop’s Hong Kong-based bookseller-at-large. Heywood Hill, which offers bespoke bookselling, private library building and monthly book subscriptions, with customers in over 60 countries worldwide, said that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International New York Times (NYTimes.com) and The New York Times’ Chinese website (cn.NYTimes.com) today published the first edition of the International New York Times Chinese Monthly, a print publication that presents news, opinion a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bertelsmann is expanding its growth into education by investing in Alliant International University in the US. Alliant specialises in psychology, has more than 3,700 students and operates 10 campuses in California, Mexico City, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The investment will be made by the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The International Publishers Association has called on China's government to release Xu Xiao, a prominent publisher, writer and editor, and 2014 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize nominee. Xu was arrested on 26th November during a crackdown on writers, journalists, publishers and civil society... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Quarto Group has appointed Sally Dwyer into the newly created role of group director of people. Starting with immediate effect, Dwyer will be responsible for Quarto’s human resources strategy across its businesses in the UK, the US, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. Dwyer joins Quarto... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Taxi app company Uber continues to make inroads in Asian markets, signing up independent cab drivers in Seoul, South Korea, despite regulatory pushback from the country's transport ministry and local authorities. The Wall Street Journal reports that Uber is paying its contract cabbies in Seoul... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]