On 10 May 2003, the Alibaba Group’s subsidiary, Taobao, was born. Unlike the B2B business model, Taobao was a cross between a B2C and C2C e-commerce platform. If Alibaba was for businesses, and particularly SMEs, to build a platform for trading all over the world, Taobao was aimed at the individual, a platform for people-to-people […]
Category: Books
UK’s first Chinese writing festival comes to London Chinatown
China in Context, the UK’s first annual book festival celebrating writers and writing from and about China, is coming to London’s Chinatown for March 2018. Held at China Exchange, the festival will take place over two weeks, with talks from leading writers, hands-on workshops, and cultural experiences. China in Context 2018 will focus on the […]
Ma Huateng and Tencent Book Extract – Fighting to become the King of Online Business
On 10 May 2003, the Alibaba Group’s subsidiary, Taobao, was born. Unlike the B2B business model, Taobao was a cross between a B2C and C2C e-commerce platform. If Alibaba was for businesses, and particularly SMEs, to build a platform for trading all over the world, Taobao was aimed at the individual, a platform for people-to-people […]
Foreign Goods – A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists
Image: Mffphotography.wordpress.com This ground-breaking collection features eight contemporary pieces written by British East Asian writers. The book contains mixture of full plays, short plays and monologues and so provides new and relevant material for actors, as well as new plays available for production. As such it will prove popular among actors, theatre makers and playwrights, […]
The Muquju Collection of Ming Furniture by Grace Wu – London Launch
This November, Grace Wu, the world’s leading expert in Ming furniture, will launch her new book, The Best of The Best: The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture, dedicated to her private collection, which is possibly the greatest collection of Ming furniture in private hands. Shortened from The Muquju Collection, meaning ‘Lodge of Wood Delights’, the […]
Why My Chinese Heritage Inspired Me To Write – Selina Siak Chin Yoke
There is a cruel Chinese saying: ‘Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.’ It’s derogatory, intended to mean that a person is more Western than Chinese and has lost her way. My own father once said that about me. He was wrong, as I hope my novels demonstrate. What he sensed was the ambiguity […]
The Best of The Best: The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture
Grace Wu Bruce, the world’s leading dealer in Ming furniture, announces the launch of her new book, The Best of The Best: The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture. Shortened from The Muquju Collection, meaning ‘Lodge of Wood Delights’, the collection comprises over 100 pieces of Ming furniture which will be on display in Hong Kong at the Hong […]
Madeleine Thien in conversation – London
Madeleine Thien is a novelist and short story writer whose work has been translated into 23 languages. Born in Vancouver, her parents both Malaysian-Chinese immigrants, her writing is heavily influenced by her family history and her experiences as a child. Do Not Say We Have Nothing is testament to that, detailing the story of 10-year-old […]
A SINGULAR CASE – Debating China’s Political Economy in the European Enlightenment
China held a unique place in European thought during the eighteenth century. Considered a relatively unknown but advanced agrarian and commercial civilization, the Chinese Empire represented the apex of an economic system that was only beginning to be supplanted. Europeans did not assume their superiority and were drawn to study the nature and organization of […]
In the Land of Pagodas: A forgotten tour through late Qing China
“Alfred Raquez” is the pseudonym of Joseph Gervais, a bankrupt, reprobate lawyer from Lille. With a warrant out for his arrest, he fled France in March 1898 and headed East. He continued traveling as far as Guizhou in China, before settling in Hanoi, where he declared himself a publicist. In 1904, he was appointed to […]