Harvard to digitize its collection of rare Chinese books in a 6-year-deal with China

October 9th, 2009 Scholars at Harvard University are to lampoon the TWILIGHT phenomenon in a hilarious new novel. The Harvard Lampoon magazine's Nightlight will be published by Random House's Vintage Books imprint in November (09).

October 7th, 2009 Harvard acquires archive of author John UpdikeCAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike, a member of the university's class of 1954.

October 5th, 2009 Michael Jackson movie to screen in ChinaHONG KONG — The Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" has snapped up one of the last of China's 20 annual foreign movie import slots, a Sony Pictures executive said Tuesday. Chinese censors approved the film before the weeklong National Day holiday that started on Oct.

October 5th, 2009 Exec: China's anniversary film set to break recordHONG KONG — China's star-studded propaganda blockbuster that marks 60 years of communist rule is on track to match the country's box office record set by the Hollywood film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in July, a senior movie executive said Monday. "The Founding of a Republic" has so far made nearly 330 million yuan ($48 million) as of Sunday since it was released on Sept.

October 5th, 2009 MICHAEL JACKSON fans in China will have a chance to watch his documentary THIS IS IT after movie bosses secured the rights to show the film in the country. The documentary, which chronicles the making of the King Of Pop's ill-fated final shows, has earned the last of 20 slots Chinese officials allocate for imported films every year.

October 2nd, 2009 Taiwan museum to open joint exhibition with ChinaTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's National Palace Museum said Friday it will open its first-ever joint exhibition with China next week, 60 years after they split amid civil war. The exhibition reunites treasures from China with those that Beijing has long said were stolen when they were taken to Taiwan.

September 30th, 2009 Fox invests in 1st Chinese film, a romantic comedyHONG KONG — Fox Filmed Entertainment says it has invested in its first Chinese film, becoming the latest Hollywood studio to enter the booming mainland movie market. The Chinese-language romantic comedy "Hot Summer Days" will be a co-production between Fox International Productions, China's Huayi Brothers Media Corp.

September 30th, 2009 China launches probe into imports of US chickenBEIJING — China on Sunday started investigating complaints that American chicken products are being dumped in China and are unfairly benefiting from subsidies, adding to a string of trade disputes with Washington. The Commerce Ministry said the probe was launched Sunday on broiler products and chicken products, following requests by Chinese companies to investigate the U.S.

August 25th, 2009 Jet Li returns to Chinese film after 3 US movies HONG KONG — Jet Li is returning to Chinese film with a reportedly non-kung fu movie after three Hollywood productions, a publicist said Tuesday. Li is due to start shooting the movie — tentatively called "Ocean Paradise" in Chinese — Edko Film publicist Zhang Hongyan told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man has been arrested and charged with raping a 91-year-old woman in Huizhou, Guangdong province. Wen, 44, a security guard at a private firm, allegedly barged into the old woman's house at 2 am and raped her, reports the China Daily.

August 7th, 2009 Uighur activist calls for probe on unrest in ChinaMELBOURNE, Australia — A Uighur activist called Friday for a U.N. investigation of recent violence in western China, as 100 people demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Melbourne.

July 29th, 2009 'Infernal Affairs' director hopes for hit in ChinaHONG KONG — "Infernal Affairs" co-director Alan Mak hopes his new thriller will break new ground for Hong Kong filmmakers still learning the tastes of mainland Chinese viewers. Directors in this vibrant movie industry — which produced Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan — are increasingly under pressure to cater to the booming Chinese market, but they sometimes struggle to find the pulse of mainland moviegoers because Hong Kongers' tastes tend to be more Westernized.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two Chinese writers worked continuously for 48 hours to produce an "instant biography" of late King of Pop Michael Jackson. The 130,000-word book, titled 'Moonwalk in Paradise', has been written by Jiang Xiaoyu and Xing Han, and published by Chinese publishing house Xiandai.

July 2nd, 2009 BEIJING - All non-Chinese people will get free access to 12 major tourist sites in Anyang city, Henan province, under a new policy. According to the China Daily, Chinese citizens will not be given the same privilege that is designed to attract more foreign tourists, who are smaller in number than domestic travelers to the city.

June 5th, 2009 Yao Ming voices role in Chinese animated filmBEIJING — Having appeared in a documentary and played himself on the Simpsons, Houston Rockets star Yao Ming finally gets to voice a whole different character for an upcoming Chinese-language animated film. Yao plays the father of the main character in "The Magic Aster," a traditional tale of good versus evil that promises to be more earnest than the famously irreverent Simpsons.