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...Penguin paid $100,000 for the English-language rights to Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem, a coming-of-age tale set in Inner Mongolia. It was a record sum for a Chinese novel. In 2008, the same publishing house issued, amid much brouhaha, Zhu Wen's I Love Dollars, a lively look at the dark side of China's boom. And it has just announced plans to bring more Chinese writers to the attention of international readers by expanding its Beijing operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Orwell | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...Penguin Press; 310 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...case with an encyclopedia entry, which is made up of facts, there's a lot of opinion in a recipe. The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song. So will wiki work in the kitchen? (See the 25 best blogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...company struggled for nearly half a decade. Then came the penguins. "To convince Singapore [that it could treat water], we tried our first project in a bird park with the penguin tank," explains Hyflux's Ong. Because penguins are used to pristine arctic water, the water in their tank needed to be continuously cleaned. The penguins were pleased enough by Hyflux that the company was allowed to recycle part of Singapore's wastewater into drinking water, which has in turn propelled Hyflux from a start-up into a global player in water treatment. Its systems are now used in cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore's All Wet | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

LONDON London Design Festival See the latest in new design, from Penguin chairs by Peter Opsvik for Varier (above) to a life-size interactive chess set in Trafalgar Square by Jaime Hayón (Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calendar | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

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