![]() On Friday November 29th we’re going to be celebrating our new status as a charity with a party at the Coach and Horses (29 Greek Street, London, W1D 5DH). The resultant list gives an insight into the titles that have made an impression this year – and perhaps offers a preview of some of the books we can hope to see available in English soon!Ģ comments Paper Republic Charity Launch – Update! Now you've read our 2019 lists of English translations and books published in Chinese, here's a preview of some of the translations that will be hitting your shelves in 2020!Īs the year comes to a close, we’ve asked authors, translators, editors, and other friends of Paper Republic to recommend notable books published in Chinese in 2019 – translations into Chinese as well as original works. Leave a comment 2020 Forthcoming Translations To support OWSpace and One-Way Street Magazine – and everything they do for the literary scene in China – you can make a donation here. Last year, a profile in Neocha described the publication as "a journal that thinks books and ideas are worth arguing about a platform for opinions, articles of faith, and moments of doubt-in short, a public conversation about cultural life." OWSpace are the publishers of One-Way Street Magazine ( 单读): an outstanding literary journal, a rare independent voice in contemporary Chinese media, and our collaborators for the "Read Paper Republic: Dispatches" series of creative non-fiction pieces. ![]() Restrictions on delivery services have also taken a huge chunk out of their online sales. That one store, in a Beijing shopping mall that now has a tenth of its usual customers, has been selling no more than a handful of books a day. In this Wechat post they explain that they have only been able to keep one of their four stores open. Now, with the impact of COVID-19 bringing their business to a standstill, they are in need of donations just to be able to keep paying rent. The One-Way bookstores have been a home for literature for the last fifteen years, providing space on their shelves for the kind of books that are hard to find anywhere else, as well as hosting literary talks and events with local and international authors. 单向空间 OWSpace Bookstores Struggling to Survive ![]() Responsible for their contents, and cannot provide digital or paper We are not the publisher of these works, are not The Paper Republic database exists for reference
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