It is the perfect backdrop not just to photos but also to one of China’s new official obsessions: how to get people to read more, and to read more deeply. Since its founding, the Communist party of ...

We don’t know whether this will help thwart late returns, but Cambridge, Mass.-based TAGSYS is tagging books at China’s Shenzhen Library. Within days, nearly 2 million RFID tags will be integrated and ...

BEIJING — Library officials in northwest China recently hoped to demonstrate their ideological fervor and loyalty to the Communist Party by purging politically incorrect books and religious materials ...