WSJ Blogs (1)

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(1) Debra Bruno, The Deeply Odd Lives of Chinese Bureaucrats. China Real Time, Mar 14, 2013
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... hinese-bureaucrats/
(book review on Wang Xiaofang, The Civil Servant's Notebook. Penguin, 2013--"his first book to be translated into English")

Note:
(a) 王 晓方, 公务员笔记. 作家出版社, 2009 (whose protagonist is YANG Hengda 杨 恒达)
(b) Bookworm Literary Festival (BLF) 老书虫文学节, simultaneously held annually in Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.
http://bookwormfestival.com/

The website is in English only--no Chinese counterpart.
(i) The founder is 位于三里屯深处的老书虫（Bookworm）书店.
(ii) This year is the seventh.
(iii) The festival is sometimes known as Bookworm International Literature Festival.
(c)
(i) MA Xiangdong, the deputy mayor of the northeast city of Shenyang
马向东（1953-2001, 沈阳市常务副市长)
(ii) The then mayor 慕 绥新 (1943-2002) was sentenced in 2001 死刑，缓期二年执行, but died of cancer in 2002.
(ii) 王 晓方, 市长秘书. 作家出版社, 2007.

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(2) Jenny W Hsu, Taiwan Riled Up Over First Family Wedding. China Real Time, Mar 14, 2013.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... rst-family-wedding/

Note:
(a) Grand Hotel  圓山大飯店
(b) first daughter Lesley MA 馬 唯中/ husband Allen TSAI 蔡 沛然