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responsibility for the Chengdu and Suzhou operations. Jenny Niven ran The Bookworm's Events program from 2006 to 2010 and directed the Festival from its inception until 2010. In 2013 Pearson returned to her home country, the
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into Chinese, and the 140 stories were distributed free of charge, over a period of 28 weeks to Chinese audiences via multiple social media platforms. As an international EU-China collaborative project, artists from the
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