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Wednesday, August 17 7:30pm Translation Slam – The Great Bruce Lee Romance: a Beijing Love StoryTwo translators go head to head, comparing their translations of a text and fielding questions from the audience. This month, we tackle the script from the play The Great Bruce Lee Romance: a Beijing Love Story.
Thursday, August 18 7:30pm Summer Cinema with Electric Shadows Film Club: Cat on a Hot Tin RoofAn open air screening of Tennessee William’s classic. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, greed, sexual desire and the Deep South – a perfect way to spend a hot August night!
Saturday, August 20 8pm Amped: The Beijing Beatles BandBeijing’s take on the fab four plays all of your favorites (come on, you know you want to sing along!).

Tea Obrect wins 2011 Orange Prize

Tide PlayersZha Jianying

Big Girl SmallRachel Dewoskin

The Bookworm is a bookshop, library, bar, restaurant and events space, now with five locations in three cities – Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu.

The Bookworm is forever expanding its book offering – at the last count, we were able to boast 16,112 titles on our library shelves. Our bookshop offers a wide range of sometimes surprising tomes, and our talks continue to beguile our audiences. Find more details about us, and how to contact us, here.

Sangria! Spanish wine, fresh fruit and our secret ingredient make this a very sweet way to cool off.

The Bookworm at The Yin Yang Center Living in the Shunyi area? Check out the brand new branch of The Bookworm, based in the beautiful renovated courtyard home of The Yin Yang Center, a not for profit organisation dedicated to bringing you total emotional and physical wellbeing.