Writer, speaker, novelist - Author of The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, The Emperor's Bones and The Dragon's Tail
15 September – Sunday – 13:00
OCCB Speaker Series: Adam Williams on China
The Talk: Adam will speak on the topic of “Chinese Revolutions and China History”, which will cover four generations of history in China and the political events going on around them. This talk will be a fully illustrated presentation with period photos. […]
Adam has translated media and newspaper reports on his novel recently published in China:
Adam has posted a short movie, ‘The Emperor’s Bones’, on his Web site. Click here to see it.
On Monday 10th June a seminar was held at the One Way Street Salon (单向街.沙龙) Bookshop in Beijing for a literary discussion on the subject of ‘History and Fiction’ to coincide with the Chinese language publication of Adam Williams’ novel ‘The Emperor’s Bones’ (乾隆的骨头). Moderating was the eminent writer, critic and publisher Xu Zhiyan. Speaking […]
Adam has translated critics’ comments on his novel recently published in China:
On Monday 10th June a seminar will be held at the One Way Street Salon (单向街沙龙) Bookshop in Beijing for a literary discussion on the subject of ‘History and Fiction’ to coincide with the Chinese language publication of Adam Williams’ novel ‘The Emperor’s Bones’ (乾隆的骨头) Speaking will be the author Adam Williams, the well known […]
To celebrate the publication of the Chinese version of Adam Williams’s novel ‘The Emperor’s Bones’ (now running No 12 on China’s online best sellers’ list), a debate was held at the Beijing Bookworm on Friday 24th May to discuss ‘Fictionalising China’. Joining Adam were Chinese authors Hong Ying (‘The Daughter of the River’, ‘Concubine of […]
The Bookworm Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing Friday, May 24, 7:30pm 40/50rmb The Chinese translation of Adam Williams’s novel set in China’s turbulent warlord period of the 1920s, The Emperor’s Bones, hit the number one spot on China’s biggest on-line bookseller, Dang Dang Wang’s New Fiction list. For a foreign novel in […]
At a seminar and press conference held at the China Club, Beijing, today, several eminent academics, critics, writers and essayists gathered at to discuss Adam Williams’s historical novel about China, The Emperor’s Bones, published in China by Phoenix Books last week and still in the top 10 of Dang Dang Wang’s bestselling list. Williams is […]
Quite pleasing to hear that for the whole day Qian Long’s Bones – the Chinese version of The Emperor’s Bones – was No 1 in the new novels category on Dang Dang Wang, China’s home grown Amazon.com. It’s just been pipped to second place, but that’s no shame because I’m being told by Chinese editor […]
