A Celebration of Literature and Ideas
This Podcast is presented to you by the the Bookworm International Literary Festival. The festival is a unique celebration of literature and ideas in China. Every March we programme over 100 events across three cities in China. Beijing, Suzhou and Chengdu. Connecting over 70 Chinese and international writers and thinkers, The Bookworm International Literary Festival 2011 will take place between March 4th – March 18th. For more information please visit http://bookwormfestival.com/
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Australia In The Asian Literary Space (2010 festival)
- Hear this special festival event discussing Australian themes in literature brought to you by Australian Writers Week.
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Duration: 76:53 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Xiong Liang (2010 festival)
- Join us this morning as illustrator Xiong Liang gives a special, practical session for little ‘uns on how he creates his beautiful books. In Chinese with English translation.
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Duration: 44:15 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Beijing of Possibilities (2010 festival)
- The way we inhabit a city imaginatively has a lasting impact on the way we live in it physically. If Jonathan Tel is to be believed, Beijing is a city where gorilla-suited telegram operators, trans-century romances and objects embedded with mystical powers are all to be embraced as part of the fabric of our daily existence. He’s probably right.
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Duration: 84:34 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Steve Connell (2010 festival)
- Steve Connell’s performances are the definition of energetic. Dynamic, fluid, high-octane and utterly unique, don’t miss this opportunity to see live literature at its finest, as proven by Connell’s hat-trick of awards from the US National Slam Championships.
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Duration: 59:25 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Leave Me Alone, Chengdu (2010 festival)
- Leave Me Alone, Chengdu is Murong’s bitter take on love and life in modern China. The story of three young men and their tragi-comic struggles to make their way in Chengdu. An unflinching and darkly funny look at the pressures of life in modern China, where riches and sex abound – but not for everyone.
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Duration: 73:43 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Li Er (2010 festival)
- Li Er is a prominent writer on the Chinese literary circuit. In the past decade alone he has published two novels, five short story collections and has graced the pages of almost every Chinese literary journal in the country. Widely respected among Chinese critics and readers alike, we’re thrilled to present Li Er to international audiences in this lively festival session.
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Duration: 60:42 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Literary Journals (2010 festival)
- Chris Wood, editor of the Asia Literary Review, Brigid Hughes of A Public Space, and Alberto Ruy Sanchez of Artes de Mexico discuss the role of the literary journal in bringing new writing to light in today’s difficult publishing markets, comparing and contrasting tales from the coalface from three different continents.
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Duration: 58:39 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Sex in the Palace (2010 festival)
- Derek Sandhaus, Linda Javin and the irrepressible Lijia Zhang get down and reveal the dirty on the lusty lives of foreigneres in China in the Imperial era.
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Duration: 68:56 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Great Walk of China (2010 festival)
- Great Walk of China (2010 festival)
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Duration: 58:39 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Amitav Gosh (2010 festival)
- Amitav Gosh is one of Indian’s leading literary lights, whose epic fictions have conjured takes of India, empire and beyond for thousands of readers worldwide in numerous languages. In this special festival session, he shares tales of the writing life and gives us a peek into his luminous imagination.
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Duration: 74:16 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Hong Ling (2010 festival)
- Hong Ying is the author of works of fiction and memoir which have challenged readers’ expectations and been critically acclaimed in both Chinese and English alike.
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Duration: 29:11 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Opening Night (2010 festival)
- A very special festival evening as we raise the curtain on The Bookworm International Literary Festival 2010. Explore the magic of books and the lure of literature with Amitav Gosh, Jonathan Tel, Liz Niven, Alberto Ruy Sanchez and Steve Connell.
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Duration: 75:14 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Bi Feiyu (2010 festival)
- Bi Feiyu is a novelist, editor and screenwriter whose work explores female experience in male dominated realms. Hear this compelling voice of modern Chinese literature.
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Duration: 75:35 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Yan Lianke (2010 festival)
- Arguably one of China’s most prolific contemporary writers, Yan Lianke is the author of an impressive body of work, including five novels, numerous short stories, novellas and essays.
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Duration: 26:52 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
The Shard Box (2010 festival)
- Using the metaphor of the broken Chinese porcelain collected to create shard boxes, Liz Niven’s brand new collection of beautifully crafted poems explores the disintegration and reconstitution of families, communities and societies. Hear Niven read from her fourth collection of poetry and about how her experiences in Asia informed this creation.
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Duration: 73:42 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Half the Sky (2010 festival)
- What have Empress Wu, the Dowager Cixi, Song Meiling and Mrs. Mao have in common and how did they get so powerful in a male-dominated society? Jonathan Fenby, bringing all hisi talents as both historian and storyteller to bear, reveals all.
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Duration: 64:55 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Patriotic Warlords (2010 festival)
- Jonathan Fenby and Paul French hark back to pre-PRC times as we look at the heady days of China in the 1930’s.
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Duration: 61:31 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Louise Welsh (2010 festival)
- Paul French talks to one of Scotland’s leading crime fiction writers, Louise Welsh. Welsh joins us specially in Beijing just days after the launch of her third novel, Naming the Bones.
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Duration: 70:56 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
Beijing through a Lens (2010 festival)
- Mike Meyer (Last Days of Old Beijing) discusses the dismantling of old Beijing and the changing fortunes of lao Beijingers.
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Duration: 23:49 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 32 KBPS – Frequency: 16000 HZ
North Korea (2010 festival)
- One country – two very different ways to portray it. Join graphic narrative artist Guy Delisle an reporter Barbara Demick as they discuss their work on the hermit kingdom in two very different books Pyongyang (Delisle) and Nothing to Envy (Demick)
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