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As the annual China Shanghai International Book Fair season arrived, Beijing’s OpenBook research group had new observations to mention.
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The dogged problem of endangered and Indigenous languages is a major one in children’s books.
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Writer Boualem Sansal, Held for a Year, Released by Algeria
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