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WeChat Cats, Romantic Blunders & Lightning Dogs: Paradise Systems Year 1

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“Paradise Systems publishes exemplary comics from the United States and China.” This is the story of their first year, broken up into three acts.

I.

Our story begins in Brooklyn, where long-time translator and former China resident Orion Martin sets out on his publishing adventure. Wanting to foment a a cultural exchange of comics, he tests the waters…

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Hong Kong Book Fair 2017: mainstream supermarkets persist as indies find their own voice

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A motley crew of publishers, booksellers, NGOs and education companies descended in Hong Kong this year for the 2017 Book Fair. This odd mixture is nothing new (as we noted in 2015 and 2016), and if anything this year’s fair was a more muted affair with fewer dazzling displays, only one large-sized English-language booth, and a rather…

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The Melon sci-fi conference: a stimulating clash of worlds

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Court drawing of an authors panel

The inaugural Melon science fiction conference took place on April 19-20 in Hong Kong. A modest, two-day event, it brought together writers, producers, lawyers and entrepreneurs who work in science fiction and its adjacent industries. One of the main draws of the conference was its mix of speakers from both Greater China and the West, a rare get together in…

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Upcoming science fiction conference featuring Chinese + Western authors & filmmakers

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Coming to Hong Kong April 19-20: Melon HK, a science fiction conference featuring writers, filmmakers, publishers and producers from China and the West.

Prominent speakers include a founder editor of io9, a (former) director of Penguin Random House, the first PhD graduate in author of the first PhD dissertation on…

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