Motherbridge of Love, a picture book based on a poem written for an adopted daughter, has been selected by the Time Magazine in its 2007 Top Children’s Book List. The poem, sent to the charity Mothers’ Bridge of Love (MBL) by an anonymous author, describes the
feeling of an adoptive mother towards her new daughter, and the girl’s the birth mother. “One became your guiding star; the other became your sun,” it reads. Xinran, founder of MBL, and a renowned author of several books about Chinese women’s lives, first published the poem in her Guardian column in 2004. In 2006, MBL and Barefoot Books decided to produce a picture book based on the poem, and asked the Canadian artist Josée Masse to illustrate the poem.
“Our organisation’s aim is to connect the adopted children from China to their cultural roots, and help them to fully enjoy their life here and recognise their identity,” Wendy Wu, CEO of MBL, is very happy that the book has been well received, and hopes the sale of the book would help the running of the charity. MBL is also planning to present the book to donors as part of a new fund raising initiative.
“The poem is so beautiful, the illustration is absolutely gorgeous. It can be enjoyed by parents and children of all families. And you will give the adopted children a little bit more support too,” she says.
BBC Radio4 Woman’s Hour Drama is broadcasting a five part radio adaptation of Xiaolu Guo’s novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. The story is told by the protagonist Z, a young Chinese woman coming to London to study English, using bloken English. The book follows Z’s encounter with Western culture, her sexual awakening, freedom and frustration. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers was shortlisted in last year’s Orange Broadband Prize.
Xiaolu Guo’s new novel, a rework of her early book in Chinese, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth will be published next month.
Forbes reports:
BEIJING (Thomson Financial) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he would be pressing the China’s government to lift restrictions on Chinese companies looking to raise capital on the London Stock Exchange.
Speaking at the opening of the LSE’s representative office as part of his visit here, Brown said he wanted to double the number of Chinese companies listed in London in the next five years. So far 68 have done so.
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Xinhua news agency reports:
BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a five-point proposal here Friday to boost China-UK scientific innovation, especially in the fields of technological transfer, joint innovation program, energy and environmental protection, financial service and intellectual property rights (IPR).
Wen made the proposal when he addressed a China-UK business summit. He expressed his hope that the cooperation between the two countries in the fields could help push forward bilateral collaboration in technological innovation and two-way trade to a higher level.
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The Times reports on the new regulatory power given to Natural Healthcare Council:
Aromatherapy, homoeopathy and other popular complementary therapies are to be regulated for the first time under a government-backed scheme to be established this year.
The new Natural Healthcare Council – which is being backed by the Prince of Wales – will be able to strike off errant or incompetent practitioners. It will also set minimum standards for practitioners to ensure that therapists are properly qualified.
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ITV has licensed its popular show Ant and Dec to Chinese Hunan TV (湖南卫视). Intially 13 episode will be made following the show’s formula. The show will be renamed as Super 2008: Friday Night Takeaway.
Guardian’s Mark Sweney reports
ITV is to remake its scandal-hit show Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway for Chinese TV, complete with a new version of the controversial Jiggy Bank phone-in competition using a giant hippo instead of a pig.
Granada International, ITV’s international division, has struck a licensing deal with Hunan TV for a Chinese version called Super 2008: Friday Night Takeaway.
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