kathleen writes “Xinhua Online reports on a Cross-Straits Bookfair to be held in Xiamen, Fujian Province July 28-31.
Attending the book fair are at least 500 publishers, 200 of them from Taiwan.
The book fair is jointly organized by the Xiamen municipal government, the Fujian Provincial Administration of Publishing Affairs, the Chinese Publishers Association and Taiwan Publishers Guild, the Taiwan Book Distributors Guild and several other publishing business promotion organizations.
With the opening of the book fair, the largest of its kind between publishing communities across the Taiwan Straits, Taiwan academic books and books about daily life will be directly accessible to mainland readers, said Chen Weijiang, deputy director with the Chinese Publishers Guild.
It’s been 50 years since the U.S. threat to use nukes against China if Quemoy and Matsu were grabbed. More on recent Cross-straits relations.”
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