Singing Grass is a business consultancy advising on access and development strategies for the Chinese market. We develop bespoke programmes for clients in the arts, lifestyle, cultural and luxury retail sectors to connect them to their markets.
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We are pleased to share a message from Liu Zhenyun to translators around the world who took part in this year’s Voices of Today Literary Translation Prize.
Reflecting on the emotional connections beneath language, his words offer a powerful reminder of what translation carries across cultures.
We are entering the “emotional economy,” where consumption is driven less by status and more by connection, reassurance and shared experience.
In this piece, Alicia Liu and Shilpa Saul explore how shifting consumer behaviour is reshaping global brands, cultural trends and the way ideas travel across markets.
From social media “Instapoetry” to 180,000-copy translation successes in China, poetry is re-emerging in unexpected forms. Drawing on insights from BolognaBookPlus, Alicia Liu explores how poetry is evolving across markets, from Instapoetry and social platforms to global translation success stories, and what this means for publishers navigating an age of emotional and cultural flux.
In China, a feminist revivial is reshaping the literary landscape, led not by menifestos, but but memoirs, essays and literary classics being rediscovered and reinterpreted by a new generation. Ahead of Beijing International Book Fair, Alicia Liu of Singing Grass examines some striking publishing success stories in China
At Bolonga Book Plus in the heart of Italy, we explored the art of publishing and the beauty of curating a list for the perfect bookshelf, in a great conversation on stage with Tom Walker (The Folio Society), Sara sarin (Camelozampa), Christopher MacLehose (MacLehose Press), Yuan Nan (Phoenix Publishing), and our founder Alicia Liu (Sing Grass) with Jacks Thomas (Guest Director, Bologna Book Plus)
During this year’s London Book Fair, Singing Grass founder Alicia Liu was invited by China Daily to share her perspective on the growing visibility and influence of Chinese books in the UK market. As global reading habits shift—shaped by the rise of audiobooks, BookTok, and streaming-inspired book trends—Chinese literature is carving out a space in the Western reading imagination.
We’re honored to have been part of the first Jamaica Book Festival Industry Day, recently featured on the front page of The Business Gleaner!
A big thank you to Latoya West-Blackwood, founder of the Jamaica Book Festival, for inviting Alicia Liu, founder of Singing Grass Communications, to deliver a talk on opportunities for English-language publishers in global markets, including China.
What UK Publishers need to know about the Chinese education market in 2024, as major changes in how English is taught to children roll out.
