http://locus-international.com A platform for sharing new English releases by Locus Publishing Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:45:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 35 U.S. states, 200 closing Borders stores will hold sales starting Saturday, February 19th. Borders received approval from the court on Thursday February 17th to close 200 of its 642 stores. The average remaining lease term of the stores is ... http://locus-international.com/2011/02/200-closing-borders-stores-hold-sales-starting-feb-19th/ Category: Book Reading Event Date and Time: Friday, February 11, 2011 from 14:00-14:30. Event Title: “A Classic Book Thunders For Itself: German Man of the Year Peter Weidhaas Reads An Excerpt From His Memoir" Speaker and Host : The Speaker, Chairman of the World Book Exhibition, is ... http://locus-international.com/2011/02/on-feb-11th-at-the-tibe-2011-book-reading-with-peter-weidhaas/ A public school in Maine is actively recruiting students from China. Stearns High School is located in Minninocket, Maine, a remote town some 200 miles north of Boston and an hour's drive from any shopping malls or movie theaters. Minninocket receives an average of 93 inches (236 cm.) of ... http://locus-international.com/2010/10/maine-high-school-recruits-chinese-teenagers/ In Beijing, there are nearly a million dogs kept as pets. This is remarkable, especially in light of the fact that twenty years ago, there was a "no dog" policy and it reflects China's economic rise in the world. Under Communism, dogs played the role of either guards or herders, while ... http://locus-international.com/2010/10/beijing-city-of-dog-lovers/ David Hawkes, who translated into English the lion's share of Cao Xueqin's colossal Chinese classic "The Story of The Stone" (also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber"), passed away last August at the ripe old age of 86. His life was unusual, beginning when as a student at ... http://locus-international.com/2010/10/remembering-david-hawkes-translator-of-the-story-of-the-stone/ Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo 劉 曉 波 has won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland of The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the following announcement: Over the past decades, China has achieved economic advances to which history can hardly show any equal. The country now has the world's second largest ... http://locus-international.com/2010/10/dissident-liu-xiaobo%e5%8a%89-%e6%9b%89-%e6%b3%a2-awarded-2010-nobel-peace-prize/ Highly acclaimed Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 74 year old writer believes that it is the obligation of novelists to probe the meaning of life: I don’t think there is a great fiction that is not an essential contradiction of ... http://locus-international.com/2010/10/mario-vargas-llosa-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature/ Recently, The New York Times reported about how knowing Mandarin Chinese is a skill that is in great demand in London's real estate market. The reason is there are more affluent Chinese property buyers in England's capital willing to pay in cash, which makes knowing the Chinese language valuable. ... http://locus-international.com/2010/09/knowing-mandarin-opens-doors-in-london/ In a thought-provoking New York Times article, "The World is Flat" author Thomas L. Friedman tries to find out why America is now No. 11 on Newsweek's list of the best countries in the world. He explores the cause behind the low motivation of American children to excel at ... http://locus-international.com/2010/09/thomas-l-friedman-probes-why-america-is-no-11/ Come to the Frankfurt Book Fair and join a new book launch with Peter Weidhaas, author of "See You in Frankfurt!" and "Life Before Letters." Mr. Weidhaas is going to share his stories of how the Frankfurt Book Fair found its soul, and how a man confronted his ... http://locus-international.com/2010/09/peter-weidhaass-new-book-launch-at-the-frankfurt-book-fair/