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Coronavirus the top story at book fair

THE 2020 Shanghai Book Fair got going at the Shanghai Exhibition Center yesterday with emphasis on the battle against the novel coronavirus and more online events than usual.

Highlights of this year’s fair include exhibitions and books recording the battle against the epidemic and China’s friendship with other countries during the pandemic.

More than 300 online reading events have been planned and 100-plus new books will be launched on online platforms. The fair ends on Tuesday.

In the main pavilion, there is an exhibition on publications related to the COVID-19 fight, including “A Brief History of Anti-Epidemic, Oral Account of the Witnesses” and US author John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza.” Guide books on COVID-19 prevention and books about the heroic medical workers and many others who played a role in the fight are also on display.

The diary of Zha Qiongfang, a Renji Hospital doctor who was dispatched to support Hubei Province, is among the exhibits.

Foreign versions of three new books on the fight against coronavirus in China were released early yesterday.

The books, published by New Star Press and overseas publishing houses, were created at different stages of the battle.

In “China, We Got Your Back,” an Israeli author and Chinese journalist recorded the 384 hours during which a ton of medical supplies was collected in Israel and delivered from Tel Aviv to Huanggang in Hubei Province.

The Hebrew version is published by Sella Meir, an Israeli publishing house, and the English version by UK-based Alpha Science International.

“China, We Stand With You!” has 35 foreign experts from 25 countries who stayed or returned to China during the pandemic telling their stories. 

Its English version is published by Alpha Science International.

Consisting of 40 articles and more than 300 pictures, the book shows what happened in China during the pandemic from a foreign perspective.

One of the authors, Gorshkova Olena with Beijing-based magazine China Pictorial, who has been in China since 2011, said she saw Chinese people were highly connected with each other and working together to defeat the virus.

“People like the medics, police and those with the service center of each community were working very hard. The elderly who live alone, and the children, have been taken good care of and well protected. These moments all moved me,” she said.

The third book is the Japanese version of Shanghai infectious disease expert Zhang Wenhong’s guide book on epidemic prevention and control.

Xu Jiong, head of city’s press and publication administration, said that the three books tell the stories of foreigners’ assistance in China, mutual help and the trust between foreigners and the Chinese people. It shows China working together with other countries to combat the virus.

Fudan University Press released its new book on the influence of the coronavirus on the economy and solutions for it.

A six-volume book series “Ancient Chinese Wisdom” about Chinese myth, classics, idiom, painting, historical figures and architecture in English was released at the fair yesterday.

The series, written by acclaimed writer and translator Zhang Ciyun and published by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House, focuses on stories from ancient China and tries to build a bridge between the Eastern and Western culture for foreign readers.

During the pandemic, many readers couldn’t buy books at a bookstore and e-books and audiobooks become their new preferences.

Shanghai-based online reading app Spiritual Wealth Club has built a “Future Study Room” at the fair. It has capsule-shaped reading spaces and tablets for people to read online.

Dragonfly FM, a mobile audio content app, has decorated its booth in the style of shikumen, or stone-gate house — a traditional Shanghai-style building — to promote its audio program “Stories of Shanghai Architecture.” It allows people to learn the stories behind local historical buildings.

For teenagers and children, CITIC Press Group, which offered more than 800 online classes and 800 stories free on its app during the pandemic, is providing audiobooks and animation videos and audio and video courses at the fair.




 

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