Happenings Archive

Each year, The Bookworm hosts the NGO & Charity Networking Day in order to help organizations share awareness and connect with the Beijing NGO-charity community. With a wide-range of organizations in attendance, you can discover volunteer opportunities and discover new ways to engage with the community in China.

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A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) is many things at once: a novel of education, a portrait of French society during the Third Republic, a masterful psychological analysis of love, a reflection on homosexuality, an essay in moral and aesthetic theory, and, above all, one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. Professor David Ellison’s Reader’s Guide analyses each volume of the ‘Recherche’ in order and in detail. Without jargon or technical language, Ellison leads the reader through the work, clarifying but not oversimplifying the intricate beauty of Proust’s imaginary universe. Join us for an enlightening discussion with Ellison on the stories behind this classic work.

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On the roof! You’ll never be happier that Beijing is so far from the ocean. When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
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Fun and exercise! On the rooftop.

String 139 presents a special intimate concert with two of the world’s most acclaimed guitarists. Anabel Montesinos, one of the leading figures of the classical guitar worlwide, is a winner of several major international guitar competitions like the Francisco Tárrega in Spain and the Michele Pittaluga in Alessandria, Italy. Marco Tamayo started to perform at the age of three; his first performances took place at the age of six, and up to the age of ten, he won several competitions in Cuba. With ten years he went on tour in Germany and Bulgaria, starting like that a career that have not stop until today. He has played with renown musicians around the world. Join us for this special musical event.

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Join Beijing’s Green community for their informal drinks at their monthly meet and greet for those interested in environmental, social and development issues in China. Happy hour promotions apply. All welcome. Contact Jenny at [email protected] for more details.

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One, two Freddy’s coming for you! In the dreams of his victims, a spectral child murderer stalks the children of the members of the lynch mob that killed him. Wes Craven’s classic horror slasher film still makes us scream.

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James McGregor is an American author, journalist and businessman who has lived in China for more than 20 years. He is a senior counselor for APCO Worldwide, a contributor to The Atlantic and the author of One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. In his latest book, No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, McGregor describes the much-vaunted “China Model” as one of authoritarian capitalism, a unique system that must be radically overhauled for the country to continue its march toward prosperity. He examines why this system is proving incompatible with global trade and business governance, and running out of steam. Join us as he pulls back the curtain on the unstable foundations of China’s economic power.
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Our monthly comedy showcase, hosted by Des Bishop with local and international comedians. This month, headliner Jimmy Shubert.
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Join new friends and old at INN’s monthly coffee morning meet and greet. Exchange tips on being a newbie to the city and get the best advice from Beijing old hands.

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Join us as Beijing’s only classical music open mic with our BB host Torbjoern Stallberg. Come along and get involved or simply bask in the glory of some of Beijing’s best international musicians.
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Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. Bruce Campbell, master of the B-movie and an epic chin, stars as Ash in this cult, camp classic. After opening the Necronomicon , he has to fight off the undead to survive the night.

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Irish musician Pearce McGloughlin joins us for a special acoustic set.

In Movement is a magical journey that is sure to delight audiences. A must-have…..Oxygen

A really good album showcasing the talent of this songwriter.. Terrascope UK

Listen to McGloughlin’s album In Movement here.

Time Out Beijing presents Sunday Salons. This month, join us for a special cello philharmonic concert. Beijing native Chu Yibing began playing at seven, studied in Paris at seventeen and later became the principal cellist of the Basel Symphony Orchestra, Europe’s second highest-paid cello position. Today, as the Central Conservatory of Music’s Cello Department head, he leads China’s first and only permanent chamber ensemble, the China Cello Philharmonic.

In Restless Valley, award-winning journalist Philip Shishkin offers a riveting firsthand account of Central Asia, peopled with unforgettable characters—heroin cooks, revolutionaries, dictators, money-launderers, mafia kingpins, shrewd Western businessmen, and regular folks struggling with the absurdities around them. Animated by an acute sense of history, the book combines investigative journalism and travelogue, and features true stories that wouldn’t be out of place in a fiction thriller. Join us as Shishkin discuses the story of post-Soviet Central Asia, a place afflicted by conflicts both old and new, and now finding itself pinned prominently on the global geopolitical map. In a narrative that is compassionate and at times darkly funny, Shishkin focuses mostly on Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, reconstructing how these fragile states above Afghanistan’s northern border have ricocheted between extreme repression and democratic strivings; how alliances with the United States and Russia have brought mixed blessings; and how Stalin’s legacy of ethnic gerrymandering incites conflict even now.

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In China Goes Global, eminent China scholar David Shambaugh gives a sweeping account of China’s growing prominence on the international stage. Thirty years ago, China’s role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor and it had little geostrategic power. Today however, China’s expanding economic power has allowed it to extend its reach virtually everywhere–from mineral mines in Africa, to currency markets in the West, to oilfields in the Middle East, to agribusiness in Latin America, to the factories of East Asia. Join us as Shambaugh offers an enlightening – and balanced – look into the manifestations of China’s global presence: its extensive commercial footprint, its growing military power, its increasing cultural influence or “soft power,” its diplomatic activity, and its new prominence in global governance institutions.

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The scariest place of all…the suburbs. Tom Hanks stars as an overstressed suburbanite and his paramilitaric neighbor struggle to prove their paranoid theory that the new family in town is a front for a cannibalistic cult.

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