Happenings Archive
Stop Fear from Stopping You | Lunch and Workshop
Are your fears holding you back in your career or relationships? If so, join Relationship Life Coach, Carnisa Berry to learn how to overcome it!Cost 268RMB includes workshop and lunch (salad, pasta, tea/coffee, and pastries)Get your tickets at: https://yoopay.cn/event/62519029or scan:
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.
FREE
Film as Soft Power and Hard Currency: The Sino-Hollywood Courtship
Professor Ying Zhu, The City University of New York
Professor Ying Zhu’s talk examines two periods when Hollywood dominates the Chinese market, one during the Republican era (1912-49), one since 1994 when Hollywood returned to the Chinese market after decades of absence due to a Chinese state enacted ban in 1950. She traces Hollywood’s historical China dominance while simultaneously sketching out the evolution of Chinese cinema from its infancy under the shadow of imports to its current global economic and cultural ambition. Framing the Sino-Hollywood engagement as a case of political, cultural and economic rivalry and cooptation, she elaborates on how economic interest intersects with political posturing and how film serves as a battlefield for cultural influence as China seeks to flex its growing economic muscle to promote soft power globally.
Ying Zhu is a Professor of Cinema Studies in the Department of Media Culture at the City University of New York and a University Fellow in the School of Communication and Visual Culture at the Hong Kong Baptist University. She has published eight books, including Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (New Press, 2014), Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (2010), Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Drama, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market (2008), Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System (2003). Her publications further appear in leading academic journals and major media outlets. Zhu also produces current affairs documentary films, including Google vs. China (2011) and China: From Cartier to Confucius (2012). She is working on a book that parallels Hollywood’s contemporary China expansion and cooptation with the dominance and local resistance of American films in China during China’s Republican era.
The Bookworm, Friday March 3, 7：30pm
Tickets: 50rmb (includes a drink)
Kids’ Storytelling with Dingli Stevens and Liang Kun
Join us for a special edition of Kids’ Storytelling, featuring children’s author Dingli Stevens and illustrator, Liang Kun. Together they are the creators of a series of books about a young girl called Elena who celebrates different Chinese festivals, from Mooncake Festival to Chinese New Year. Dingli will entertain us with Elena’s adventures and an illustration workshop with Liang Kun will follow. Bring the kids along for a fun and happy event!
Age: 4-9
Price: 60RMB
Email [email protected] to order
Beijing Improv Long-Form Performance: Intimate Improv
Beijing Improv is China’s oldest and largest Improvised Theater organization. Its members come from around the world and have been trained in the best improv schools from New York, Chicago, California, the UK, France, New Zealand and more. Script-less, long-form is a popular type of improv that uses audience suggestions to create an extended scene. Attendees never know what is in store but there is always the guarantee of a laugh and a good time. Don’t miss this hilarious event!
Beijing Improv is a non-profit organization, so they donate all of their proceeds to a local charity Hua Dan which benefits migrant workers and children through the performance arts.
PRESALE: 75RMB (65 RMB for members)
AT THE DOOR: 85RMB
Order your tickets at: [email protected]
purchase your ticket at: https://yoopay.cn/event/90366630
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Screening with Green Drinks Beijing & Beijing Energy Network: Beijing Besieged by Waste
Beijing Green Drinks & Beijing Energy Network invite you to a screening of Beijing Besieged by Waste (Chinese with English subtitles), and a Chinese post-screening discussion on policies, solutions, and how you can help.
中国崛起已经引起全球关注，但随之而来的，还有人口数量、产业发展、城市规模急速扩大引起的各种问题。
绿领北京和北京能源网络首次合作本次纪录片放映活动，也是绿领北京的首个全中文活动，将关注《垃圾围城》。这部在北京拍摄的纪录片对首都的垃圾处理状况进行走访和调查。著名摄影师王久良记录了周边500家垃圾场的情况和拾荒者所在的环境，展现了令人震惊的影像。
王久良的拍摄中，有曾经是城市重要组成部分的河流和土地、高铁和新建的体育馆，还有各种高楼大厦；同时，也有建筑废弃物和垃圾、拾荒者的日常生活和他们的危险工作。
Photographer Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, fearlessly documenting Beijing’s unholy cycle of consumption through poignant observational visits with the scavengers who live and work in the dumps.
While China’s economic ascent commands global attention, less light has been shed upon the monumental problem of waste spawned by a burgeoning population, booming industry, and insatiable urban growth.
Award-winning photographer Wang Jiuliang focuses his lens upon the grim spectacle of waste, excrement, detritus, and rubble unceremoniously piled upon the land surrounding the China’s Olympic city, capital, and megalopolis, Beijing.
Eking out a dangerous living within are the scavengers, mostly migrant workers from the countryside, who struggle to uphold familial and cultural systems amid their occupation’s Dickensian bleakness.
Wang renders the decimation of once-essential rivers and farmlands in the backdrop of gleaming high-speed trains, stadiums, and skyscrapers; the sinister cyclical pattern of construction’s consumption and garbage, and moving images of the daily lives of scavengers who labor at their own risk.
关于王久良
王久良于1976年在山东安丘出生，毕业于中国传媒大学并作为自由摄影师、艺术家和导演活跃于北京。在2007-2008年间，他创作了有关中国传统鬼神信仰系列作品。2008-2011年从事北京周边垃圾污染影像调查项目，最后呈现《垃圾围城》系列图片摄影作品与同名纪录片一部。
Director’s Bio:
Wang Jiu-liang was born in Anqiu, in the Shandong Province of China in 1976. An artist and a filmmaker, he graduated from the Communication University of China and works as a freelance photographer based in Beijing. From 2007 to 2008, he created the photography series China’s Traditions in Worshiping Gods and Spirits. Wang has been engaged in the investigation into garbage pollution surrounding Beijing since 2008.
电影放映结束后会有讨论会
There will be a panel discussion after the film screening.
FREE
China Double-Takes: Using Comparisons to Make Sense of the PRC – A Book Talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom in conversation with Ian Johnson
This presentation will introduce readers to the speaker’s Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo, which came out last year from Penguin and is made up of a series of short and often playful commentaries on culture and politics. Speaking right after flying to Beijing from California, he will also discuss recent developments in U.S.-China relations and current American views of the PRC.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California-Irvine, the author of five books and the editor or co-editor of several others, including The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016). He has been traveling to China for thirty years and writes for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, ranging from TIME to the TLS, the Wall Street Journal to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Ian Johnson writes features and essays for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, amongst others, and is the author of Wild Grass, and A Mosque in Munich, and the soon-to-be-released The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao.
50RMB, 40RMB(Members)
Includes a drink
purchase your ticket at: https://yoopay.cn/event/92140163
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.
FREE
José Rodrigues dos Santos: Bestselling novelist, TV journalist and war correspondent from Portugal in conversation with Ambassador of Portugal, Dr. Jorge Torres Pereira
José Rodrigues dos Santos is a bestselling novelist, essayist and journalist from Portugal whose work has been translated into more than 20 languages and has sold more than three million copies worldwide.
He is best known internationally for his novels Codex 632 and the Einstein Enigma, both of which were longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. José is also a TV journalist for Portuguese public television, where he presents RTP’s evening news. As an award-winning reporter he has covered wars around the globe, including Angola, East Timor, South Africa, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia, Lebanon, Georgia, Libya and Ukraine. He teaches journalism at Lisbon’s New University and has a Phd in war reporting.
Please Notice this will now take place on Friday, March 10 at 6:15pm
50RMB, 40RMB(Members)
Includes a House Drink
Purchase your ticket at: https://yoopay.cn/event/73464543
Brecht, Music and Culture: read and performed by Sabine Berendse and Paul Clements
The performance will take the audience back to the East Berlin of 1958 when Hans Bunge, Bertolt Brecht’s assistant at the Berliner Ensemble and later Manager of the Brecht Archive, began the first of his fourteen recorded interviews with Brecht’s best friend and collaborator, the composer, Hanns Eisler.
Sabine Berendse, the daughter of the late Hans Bunge, together with Paul Clements have translated the conversations from the German and created a dramatic reconstruction of extracts from the conversations. A selection of recordings of Eisler’s music and rarely seen photographic images of Eisler and others illustrate the show.
In these conversations Eisler offers a compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht’s close friendship and collaboration. He provides illuminating and original insights into Brecht’s work and ideas and gives an entertaining first-hand description of his friend’s personality and attitudes.
Sabine Berendse grew up in East Germany. She read Cultural Studies at Karl Marx University in Leipzig and studied for a Masters in Library and Information Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A current resident of Cardiff, Wales, she works as Librarian and Information Specialist and freelance translator.
Paul Clements has taught, acted and directed in the UK, U.S., and Canada, Scandinavia. Paul was Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Wales and, from 1985-1996, Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. From 1996 until his retirement in 2008 he was Principal of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. In 2002 he was co-winner of The Blue Angel at the Berlin Film Festival for his work on the Danish film, Minor Mishaps, which won the award for Best European Film.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Purchase your ticket at: https://yoopay.cn/event/21087561
Kids’ Storytelling: Australian Stories
Kids’ storytelling and craft is back with our new series ‘Stories from around the World’. Each week we will explore a different country and its most famous stories. This week it will be Australian stories and kids will decorate their own boomerangs.
To book, or for more information email: [email protected]
40RMB per child (includes a kid’s hot chocolate)
“Ecrire pour la liberté et l’engagement”-A Book Talk with Boualem Sansal
Photo : Catherine Helie © Editions Gallimard
“Ecrire pour la liberté et l’engagement”
Boualem Sansal (né en 1949) fait partie de ces auteurs qui ont choisi comme vecteur d’expression la langue française plutôt que leur langue maternelle. Ecrivain algérien, Boualem Sansal est l’incarnation même de la francophonie et ses valeurs de paix et de partage.
Auteur de sept romans et d’une dizaine d’essais et de réflexions, Boualem Sansal s’est imposé comme une voix cruciale en Europe, opposant la littérature aux armes et sa plume à la violence. Il n’hésite pas à dénoncer les travers de son propre pays et le danger du radicalisme religieux, par exemple dans 2084, la fin du monde, son dernier roman, récompensé du Grand Prix de l’Académie Française et dont la publication en chinois est prévue pour décembre 2016 chez Sea-Sky. Il habite aujourd’hui en Algérie mais parcourt le monde pour défendre ses valeurs.
Généreux et courageux dans son écriture, Boualem Sansal n’hésite pas à participer à des ouvrages collectifs, militant pour un plus grand partage des cultures et des langues, avec notamment Pour une littérature-monde (Collectif, Editions Gallimard, 2007) et Manifeste pour l’hospitalité des langues (Collectif, Editions Gallimard, 2012).
Lors de cette conférence, Boualem Sansal expliquera comment il conjugue l’écriture avec la défense de ses plus profondes convictions, reviendra sur ses liens avec Orwell et Camus et sur ce qu’est, pour lui, la littérature en Méditerranée.
Evénement co-organisé avec l’Ambassade de France en Chine.
11/03/2017 11:00 – 12:45
Entrée libre. Interprétation chinois/français.
Librairie Bookworm
Bâtiment 4, Gong Ti Bei Lu, Chaoyang District, Pékin
(010) 6586 9507
为自由和介入而写作
布阿莱姆·桑萨尔（出生于1919年）和其他一些作家一样，选择用法语写作而非自己的母语。这位阿尔及利亚作家，本身就是法语共同体的化身，完美演绎了法语共同体和平至上、乐于分享的价值核心。
布阿莱姆·桑萨尔著有7本小说和十多篇短评及随笔。在欧洲，他是文学界的和平斗士，主张通过文学抵抗武器，通过写字抵抗暴力。他敢于批评自己国家的歪斜之风，敢于揭露极端宗教分子的危险面貌，在他最新的小说《2084》里皆有阐述。这部作品获得了法兰西学院文学大奖，中文版在2016年12月由海天出版社发行。现在仍居住在阿尔及利亚的他，经常受邀前往世界各地，宣传正义的价值观。布阿莱姆·桑萨尔宽容而勇敢，积极推进多语言文化交流，乐于参与集体创作，比如《为了世界文学》（合著，伽利玛2007年出版）及《语言好客宣言》（合著，La Passe du vent出版社2012年出版）。
在本次讲座中，布阿莱姆•桑萨尔将介绍他如何在写作中捍卫他最为坚定的信念，谈论他与乔治·奥威尔及加缪的联系，并阐述他眼中的地中海文学。
这个活动是由法国大使馆和老书虫共同举办。
2017年03月11日 11:00 – 12:45
免费入场，中法双语翻译口译。
老书虫
北京朝阳区工体北路4号 (010) 6586 9507
Bookworm Monthly Comedy Night: Wil Sylvince
Wil Sylvince is one of the most explosive comedians performing around the world today. His comedic performances on COMEDY CENTRAL, HBO’S DEF COMEDY JAM, and SHOWTIME all garnered standing ovations by the audiences, a feat rarely seen accomplished by many performers.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Sylvince has honed his act in New York’s top comedy clubs – the Comedy Cellar, Comic Strip Live, Caroline’s on Broadway, Stand-Up NY and the Gotham Comedy Club.
His unique perspective on political and social issues, with a twist of his West Indian Haitian culture makes Sylvince a comedian in high demand. He has been hand picked by comedian heavyweights Damon Wayans, D.L. Hughley, Wayans Brothers, Katt Williams and Gabriel Iglesias to tour the country.
When not touring with other comedians, Sylvince is a wanted commodity at college campuses everywhere. His versatility to work clean as well as edgy, make him one of the nation’s top booked college comedians.
In addition to his on camera work, Sylvince also prides himself on his exceptional comedy writing skills. His writing has been used and featured on The Fugees’ album The Score, Wyclef’s The Carnival. He was also a contributor to sketch shows Chapelle Show on Comedy Central and Damon Wayan’s The Underground.
His work definitely speaks for itself, leaving audiences in amazement and always wanting more. Wil Sylvince is definitely a rising star worth keeping an eye on.
150RMB Presale, 180RMB At the door, 100RMB Student
Purchase your ticket at: https://yoopay.cn/event/73551094
Poetry Reading: Edward Ragg
Edward Ragg reads from his new collection Holding Unfailing (Cinnamon Press, 2017):
Date: 14th March 2017
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: The Bookworm, Beijing
Ticket: 50RMB (including a drink)
RSVP: If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Edward Ragg on [email protected]
Praise for Holding Unfailing (2017):
Intriguing, supple poems that range across the world and across the landscapes of the mind. – Sarah Howe
This collection has for its central focus scenes from contemporary China, observing with detachment and direct emotional intent those personal landscapes which fan out from Ragg’s experiences of a country undergoing profound change. Such landscapes and the burdening memories accompanying them create poems of concentrated philosophical energy. They search and question. Ragg explores paths and places across a world shot through with colour. Yet he reins back from the expected celebratory note, in order to sift truth from falsehood, to travel from height to abyss. This is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection.
– Penelope Shuttle
About the Author:
Edward Ragg was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England, in 1976 and, since 2007, has lived in Beijing. A former scholar of Keble College, Oxford and graduate scholar of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Ragg won the 2012 Cinnamon Press Poetry Award and his first volume of poetry was A Force That Takes (Cinnamon Press, 2013). His new collection, Holding Unfailing (Cinnamon Press, 2017), investigates contemporary China as well as questions of travel and identity. Both titles are available from The Bookworm, Beijing.
Ragg’s poetry has been anthologised in the 2014 Forward Book of Poetry (Faber & Faber, 2013), Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Eyewear Publishing/Cinnamon Press, 2012), Jericho & Other Stories & Poems (Cinnamon Press, 2012), Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens (Iowa University Press, 2009) and New Poetries IV (Carcanet Press, 2007). Other poems have appeared in Aesthetica, Acumen, Agenda, Cordite Poetry Review, Critical Quarterly, Enclave 飞地, Envoi, Orbis, Other Poetry, Papercuts, Poetry Quarterly, PN Review, Seam, Spittoon Magazine, The New Writer and Three Line Poetry.
A literary critic and writer on wine, Edward has published articles in the world’s leading wine journals and several publications within mainland China as well as online. He is currently Associate Professor in English at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and is co-founder, with his wife Fongyee Walker MW, of Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting (est. 2007).
Book your seats at: https://yoopay.cn/event/53741844
Ireland’s Imperial Mandarin: A Book Talk with Mark O’Neill
Mark O’Neill will introduce his latest work Ireland’s Imperial Mandarin: How Sir Robert Hart Became the Most Influential Foreigner in Qing China .
“There is almost no Chinese official upon whom I can rely. But the report of this foreigner is reliable… If we had 100 Harts, our affairs would run smoothly.”
—Prince Gong, Director of the Tsungli Yamen, forerunner of the Foreign Ministry.
Sir Robert Hart served as the Inspector-General of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service of the Qing dynasty from 1863 until his death in 1911. No foreigner has ever had or will ever have the life he did in China. He provided the government with more than 20 per cent of its annual revenue, set up the Chinese Post Office, founded a system of lighthouses along the coast, bought British warships that were the foundation of the modern Chinese navy and negotiated a peace treaty to end the Sino-French war. He was a trusted confidant of government leaders who constantly sought his advice in how to deal with aggressive and meddling foreigners.
In his extensive research Mark O’Neill used a wide range of sources, in English and Chinese, to describe this fascinating and complex character in all his many colours.
50RMB, 40RMB(Members)
includes a House Drink
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/15949239
Irish Band to celebrate St Patrick’s Week !
All the way from Ireland to celebrate St Patrick’s Week!
The Upducky Band & Damhsa
The Upducky Band is an Irish and contemporary folk group from the border counties of
Louth and Armagh that have been touring the world for over 10 years.
The show will also feature 2 dancers from Damhsa, who are experts in the field of Irish
dance and produce and direct highend shows in Ireland and across Europe.
The Bookworm. Wednesday March 15. 9pm Free Entry
Brought to you with the very kind support of the Embassy of Ireland, Beijing
为了庆祝爱尔兰的圣帕特里克节我们为您准备了
The Upducky 乐队和两名来自Damhsa的舞者的精彩表演！
The Upducky 乐队 是一个来自爱尔兰的民谣乐队，他们曾在世界做过超过10年的巡演。
Damhsa在爱尔兰舞蹈领域享有很高声望，并且还参加了欧洲很多的真人秀节目。
在此感谢爱尔兰大使馆对本次活动的大力支持！
老书虫 － 3月15号。9点 |免费入场
Success Requires a Vision | Lunch and Workshop
Join Life Coach Carnisa Berry and learn the 5 benefits of having a vision for you relationships and career.Cost 268RMB includes workshop and lunch (salad, pasta, tea/coffee, and pastries)Get your ticket at: https://yoopay.cn/event/99246095or scan:
Travel Videography Masterclass + Multi-Media Spoken Word Performance with Artist Matt Hulse
Beijing-based British artist, filmmaker and writer Matt Hulse presents a new spoken word film performance and short film showcase in this one-off travel videography masterclass.
Investigate creative and logistical techniques to inspire your own visual poetry! Join us at the Bookworm on March 16th for a night of exploration into the eclectic, poetic audio-visual world of artist Matt Hulse. Matt has been making films and photographs since the early 90’s. The majority of these, in one way or another, explore journeys – whether actual or imagined – and seek to articulate through the power of sound and image the unique and transformative experience of travel. Matt will share and discuss a selection of films shot in the DPRK, Dresden, Warsaw, Vienna, Czech Republic and the UK. He will also premiere a brand new film from Outer Mongolia and perform a new spoken word piece based on visits to North Korea as a tour leader for Koryo Tours.
Click here to watch the trailer Exploring The Mongolian Steppe with Koryo Tours, directed by Matt Hulse.
100RMB (Includes a free drink)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/30853302
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.
FREE
Kids’ Storytelling: African Stories
Kids’ storytelling and craft is back with our new series ‘Stories from around the World’. Each week we will explore a different country and its most famous stories. This Saturday we will read african stories. Anansi the spider is a classic and we will make our own pipe cleaner spiders afterwards.
Price: 40RMB (includes a kid’s hot chocolate)
To book, or for more information email: [email protected]
J’écris comme je vis – Soirée discussion avec M. Dany Laferrière 我写我生活 – 与作家达尼·拉费里埃夜谈
中法双语翻译口译
In French with Chinese translation (*Not in English)
Dany Laferrière, célèbre écrivain québécois d’origine haïtienne et membre depuis 2013 de l’Académie française, est l’auteur d’une trentaine de romans et d’essais. Il a construit une œuvre patiente et puissante qui consiste à mêler avec grâce fiction et réflexion. Son œuvre rayonne à travers le monde. Lors de cette soirée conviviale, M. Laferrière partagera ses pensées, ses inspirations et son goût immodéré pour la lecture.
达尼•拉费里是出生于海地的魁北克著名作家， 2013年当选法兰西学院院士， 他一共写了三十余部小说和随笔集。一直以来，他充满耐心循序渐进地创作出了一部又一部伟大的作品。这些作品充满想象并 极大地反映了他对生活的思考。
Dimanche 19 mars | 19 h 30 à 21 h | The Bookworm
时间：星期日，3月19号 | 19点30分至21点
Entrée gratuite. Principe du premier arrivé, premier servi.
免费入场，座位先到先得。
A discussion with former international police officer and novelist Frode Z. Olsen 丹麦资深警官、作家福劳德·Z·欧尔森 携跨国犯罪小说力作《龍抬头》与读者见面
Crime meets Fiction meets Reality
A discussion with former international police officer and novelist
Frode Z. Olsen at The Bookworm
丹麦资深警官、作家福劳德·Z·欧尔森
携跨国犯罪小说力作《龍抬头》（中国人民出版社最新出版）与读者见面
Dane Frode Z. Olsen’s professional career involved more than four decades of international police work, including five years investigating in China. In his latest novel As The Dragon Raises the Head he draws on two real-life unsolved murders, the double murder in Copenhagen in 1948 of a husband and wife, and the brutal murder of a young woman in Beijing in 1937.
Frode Z. Olsen will discuss the complex and secretive world of international policing and how it inspired his fifth novel, As The Dragon Raises the Head, which has just been published in Chinese by People Literature Publishing House.
The Bookworm
Monday March 20
7:30pm
Admission Free免费入场
FR/CN 瑞士法语作家Daniel de Roulet@北京老书虫 |《福岛不复存在——2011年3月11日那一天》
三月份，在第二十二届法语活动节举办之际，瑞士驻华使馆以及领馆将同在中国的其他法语国家一起为观众呈现包括电影、文学、音乐、美食以及艺术等系列活动，展现法语世界的多样文化。今年，瑞士使馆邀请到来自瑞士的法语作家Daniel de Roulet代表参加法语活动节的文学部分。de Roulet作为建筑师、计算机工程师和作家等多重身份，为中国文学爱好者带来探讨跨界进行文学创作的好机会。
日本福岛大地震当晚，作家本人给他远在日本的女性朋友写了一封长信。迄今他们已经认识了整整一年。信中他表达了对她境况的担忧，并分析了现今日本团结一致抵御困境遇到的困难。作者长期以来备受迅速发展的科技变化影响，如今他在日本福岛灾难之际，把这个问题提出来给他的朋友（收信人）。信中表达了他的忧虑及对其他思维方式的尊重。这封长信由法国Buchet Chastel出版社首次公布，之后相继在美国、德国、意大利、西班牙及韩国出版。Lecture performance tout public: Tu n’as rien vu à FukushimaLe soir de lacatastrophe de Fukushima, l’auteur écrit une longue lettre à une amie japonaisequ’il a rencontrée exactement un an auparavant. Il lui dit son inquiétude maisaussi la difficulté de se sentir solidaire de ce qui se passe chez elle. Cette lettre a été publiée d’abord enFrance chez Buchet Chastel puis aux États-Unis, en Allemagne, en Italie, enEspagne et même en Corée.时间：2017年3月21日，18.15-19.30
Date：21 mars，18h15 – 19h30地点：老书虫，北京市朝阳区南三里屯路4号楼
主题：《福岛不复存在：2011年3月11日那一天》Lieu: Bookworm, #4, Nansanlitun, Chaoyang, Beijing
Title: Tu n’as rien vu à Fukushima*免费参与
*演讲语言为法语，现场有中文翻译
Book Talk with Timothy Garton Ash
An evening with Timothy Garton Ash at the Beijing Bookworm
Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University.He has written extensively about Central and Eastern Europe, the Communist regimes of that region, the revolutions of 1989 and their transformation into member states of the European Union. He has also written widely about the challenges of combining freedom and diversity, especially in relation to free speech.Timothy writes a column for the Guardian newspaper and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He directs the 13-language website freespeechdebate.com.His latest book is Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (Yale University Press, 2016).
March 21, 8pm
Ticket: 50 rmb (includes a drink)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/58398145
“老外” 在中国：永远的外来者?
纽约时报驻华记者狄雨霏(Didi Kirsten Tatlow)出生于香港，是一名拥有多国血统的”泛欧洲人”。她在中国生活多年，中文流利，是一位典型的”中国通”，却一直为自己的身份认同问题而困扰。纽约时报中文网倪青青对话狄雨霏，谈一谈在她们心中，谁是”中国人”？如何定义”中国人”？
老书虫 (The Bookworm) | 北京市朝阳区工体北路4号
3月22号
晚上7：30
门票：100元 (包括一杯葡萄酒，啤酒或者饮料)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/67192934
China’s Banking Transformation – Book Talk with Jim Stent, Moderated by Ted Plafker
The book that places contemporary Chinese banking within a context of traditional Chinese culture and within a broader market socialist economy dominated by the Communist Party. It is also the only book that compares Chinese banking today with both Chinese banking pre-1949, and also with the banking systems at similar stages of development in other Northeast Asian nations.
James Stent served for 13 years on the boards of China Minsheng Bank and China Everbright Bank in Beijing, and is presently on the boards of banks in Mongolia and Myanmar. Altogether, he has been engaged in commercial banking in Asia for more than four decades, starting with Citibank and Crocker National Bank in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Thailand, prior to joining the management of a Thai bank in Bangkok. Stent now divides his time between residences in Bangkok and California. Fluent in Chinese and Thai, he studied economic development at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.
Ted Plafker is an American journalist who has lived and worked in Beijing since 1989. He has written for the South China Morning Post, Washington Post, Boston Globe and many others. Since 1994 he has been a Beijing correspondent for The Economist. He served for three years as President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and is the author of the book “Doing Business in China”, published in 2007 by Hachette.
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/71135247
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.
FREE
Weaving Stories-Book Talk with Witi Ihimaera
Weaving Stories
A evening of Maori culture and literature with
award-winning author and consummate storyteller, Witi Ihimaera
Join our distinguished author of 14 novels, including the internationally
acclaimed The Whale Rider, for a discussion about Maori culture, the art of
storytelling and his experience of adaptation from the page to the screen.
The Bookworm | Friday March 24, 7：30pm | Free Admission
Brought to you with the very kind support of the Embassy of New Zealand, Beijing
Sunday Salon
Chu Yibing and the China Cello Philharmonic. Beijing native Chu Yibing began playing cello at seven, studied in Paris at 17, and became the principal cellist of the Basel Symphony Orchestra, but it wasn’t until he began conducting that he started loving music – at age 35! As head of Central Conservatory of Music’s Cello Department, he is in great demand as a soloistand featured performer; he also leads China’s first permanent chamber ensemble, the China Cello Philharmonic. This month he brings a quartet of cellists for a programme of Bach, Chopin, Wagner, Albeniz, and Varela. Hope to see you there!
50RMB, 40RMB with the latest issue of Time Out Beijing
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/11435877
Book Talk with Zhang Lijia
Zhang Lijia’s compelling debut novel Lotus is a story of a young migrant-worker-turned-prostitute in Shenzhen that was inspired by the deathbed revelation that the author’s grandmother had been sold to a brothel in her youth.
In conversation with Indian novelist Radhika Jha, Zhang Lijia will discuss her process of bringing Lotus to literary life, how she gained insight into the illicit trade, and her take on some of the related and pressing social and legal issues in contemporary China.
Zhang Lijia is a writer, social commentator and public speaker. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Socialism Is Great! about her rocket factory experience.
Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China A book talk with Andrew Collier
Shadow Banking refers to capital that is distributed outside the formal banking system, including everything from Mom and Pop lending shops to online credit to giant state owned banks called Trusts. They have grown from a fraction of the economy ten years ago to nearly half of all China’s annual Rmb 25 trillion ($4.1 trillion) in lending in the economy today.
Shadow Banks are a new aspect of capitalism in China – barely regulated, highly risky, yet tolerated by Beijing. They have been permitted to flourish because many companies cannot get access to formal bank loans. It is the Wild West of banking in China. If we define capitalism as economic activity controlled by the private sector, then Shadow Banking is still in a hybrid stage, a halfway house between the state and the private economic. But it is precisely this divide that makes Shadow Banking an important to the rise of capitalism. How Beijing handles this large free market will say a lot about how the country’s economy will grow – will free markets be granted greater leeway? Also, will Xi Jinping’s tighter political control end this experiment in free markets?
Andrew Collier is the former President of the Bank of China International USA, where he helped to launch BOCI’s U.S. office. Earlier in his career, he was an equity analyst with Bear Stearns and CLSA in Hong Kong, and a journalist covering business for the South China Morning Post in Beijing.
The Bookworm
Tuesday, March 28,
6.30 pm
50 rmb (includes a drink)
Followed by a performance at 8.30 pm by the Ah-Q Jazz Arkestra with Andrew Collier on drums. Ah-Q performs an eclectic mix of straight-ahead, modern, funk and Latin jazz compositions, including many Ah-Q originals. Mixing different styles and influences and “stretching” in creative improvisation to “dance on the edge” is the band’s trademark. The Ah-Q Jazz Arkestra has been performing in Beijing since 2003.
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/57331911
The Ah-Q Jazz Arkestra
The Ah-Q Jazz Arkestra performs an eclectic mix of straight-ahead, modern, funk and Latin jazz compositions, including many Ah-Q originals. Mixing different styles and influences and “stretching” in creative improvisation to “dance on the edge” is the band’s trademark. The Ah-Q Jazz Arkestra has been performing in Beijing since 2003.
Tuesday March 28
8.30pm
Free Admission
What’s so funny? – Dashan talks comedy at the Bookworm
In Cooperation with the Foreign Correspondents Club of China
China’s “most famous foreigner,” the Canadian Mark Rowswell aka Dashan, has been working as a comedian and media personality in China for nearly three decades. He shot to fame for his mastery of “xiangsheng” – a comedic form of traditional Chinese dialogue and went on to become a popular fixture on Chinese television, hosting cultural, diplomatic and commercial programmes and live events. He has appeared four times at the Spring Festival Gala – the only non-Chinese performer to do so.
Dashan is seen as a cultural ambassador between China and the West. He was dubbed “a foreigner but not an outsider” by the People’s Daily. In 2012, the Canadian Prime Minister appointed him “Goodwill Ambassador to China.”
Recently, Dashan has returned to his roots in a series of live shows combining traditional Chinese comedy with Western stand-up – a format relatively new to China but growing in popularity. “Dashan Live” will be featured at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April – the only non-English performance listed. On the eve of his departure, Dashan will talk to the FCCC about his life as a household name, his work to bring stand-up to China and his plans to take Chinese language comedy to mainstream international festivals.
The Bookworm’s Weekly SciFi Book Club
Join The Bookworm’s weekly SciFi Book Club to talk about your favorite science fiction short stories! Each meeting we choose a short story to read and discuss. Authors we’ve talked about so far include Greg Egan, Iain M. Banks, Cory Doctorow, Andy Weir, Liu Cixin, Peter Watts, Neal Stephenson, Ted Chiang, and many others. The club meets every Thursday at 8pm. Add Olga on WeChat @Merukaba for more information.
FREE
Yvo&Chrissy – Film Screening with the director of the Pink Space Sexuality Research Center He XiaoPei
The film is about journeys of searching for identity, humanity, happiness through giving up wealth, property, stability or given gender. The film is featuring two young people from England. Their life stories seek to inspire those who are considered as mainstream to rethink about money, family, stability, gender and sex and how these link to well-being.
He Xiaopei is executive director of the Pink Space Sexuality Research Center in Beijing, an NGO she co-founded in 2007 that provides a platform for minority groups, especially women and children, to tell their stories. Prior to that, He gave up her job in the State Council to enter a master’s program in the UK on gender and development studies. She is a rights advocate for those living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, those from the LGBT community, and the disabled. She’s also the director of several short films that shed light on these issues.
The screening will be followed by Q-and-A with He XiaoPei
50RMB, 40RMB (Members)
Book a seat at: https://yoopay.cn/event/76167170
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