The Beijing Flea Market is BACK, and this time with new vendors and even more variety! For one day (Saturday, October 31, 11 am – 5 pm), The Bookworm rooftop will be the place to find more than 25 vendors with a huge selection of independent brands featuring handmade jewelry, clothes, bags art, and more, plus secondhand, books, artisan eats and delicious drink deals! (more…)

Our Chinese Documentary Film Series returns to the work of Zhou Hao, who films Guangzhou police at work in Cop Shop (2009). (more…)

“I still live in fear,” Murong Xuecun wrote in a New York Times op-ed last summer. “I visited many Chinese prisons for a novel I wrote about the legal world — I know they aren’t pleasant places. Could I cope with a life behind bars? How would I face my devastated family and friends if I were jailed? I still don’t know.”
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Outspoken author and commentator Murong Xuecun, who the New York Times calls China’s “laureate of corruption,” will be at The Bookworm on Wednesday, October 21 to give a talk on Dancing Through Red Dust, his first English-language book in six years. (more…)

Brooklyn-based comedian DC Benny will be in Beijing this Sunday, October 18 to headline Bookworm Comedy Night. Read on for your chance to win tickets to the show! (more…)