China is the host country at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 and Mark Siemons (FAZ) reported at the contract signing of "Minister Liu Binji from that for books (and censorship) relevant press and publication authorities and the book fair director Juergen Boos" of the Chinese book market .
beThe New Sensitive and obviously in Frankfurt, is that there will collide two very different conceptions of the public, that Beijing has so far avoided direct encounter ever. What the People's Republic of construction for years, is something that the modern pluralistic confusingly similar looks, but not with this is the same.
All current ideas of socialist dictatorship there to shame: the rule is in many different regulatory mechanisms paged on many levels, and has over the catalysts market and consumption developed with amazing speed a considerable diversity in attitudes, environments and lifestyles - with considerable open spaces for the individual. But this pluralism is taking place on the express condition that everything is under control. With any alleged extension of the margin are also created to monitor institutions that prevent the matter from the Party goes totally wrong.
So also in the book market, from Lao Tzu to poststructuralism, from Karl Marx to Daniel Quinn offers a wide variety to distinguish at first sight from that of Western markets, hardly any case galaxies away from the old monoculture. Many books are now produced by private business people strictly on market terms. But to be marketed, all books need a license number of the state-owned publishers - there are still only those - will be awarded. The publishers need to submit title and summary in book authority with sensitive issues - political leaders, military, religion, recent history - the entire manuscript, which is then studied by a 'critical reading group "of retired cadres reliable. Publishers who submit too many books take without getting in the next year less license numbers.
is created a public that often in detail into that of an open society is like - except that everything is just left out the fact that their image of power and the country could be dangerous.
But Siemons points out that the management had implemented the book fair to also invite the regime unpopular authors:
At the Paris Book Fair 2004, which offered a China-focused, had the Cultural diplomacy prevailed that after all the Chinese living in France for Literature Gao Xingjian was not invited.
In Frankfurt, it will not happen. The most important issue in the ten years of negotiations was apparently the definition of what public means. The book fair has insisted that publishers, in the context of German law to invite all the authors they like, and whether they are critical emigrants as Gao Xingjian, the poet Bei Dao and the Dalai Lama.
That sounds so very good at, but what an agreement today in more than two years ago is still valid, who knows!
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