Category Archives: Events

Another year, another Lei Feng

Lei Feng (雷锋) has his day, 2007. A new book, Be Like Lei Feng (像雷锋那样) by Wu Hongmei (吴红梅). Also, why Lei Feng Day should be cancelled.

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Danwei TV screening this Sunday in Beijing

This Sunday is Bloody Sunday at Yugong Yishan in Beijing. The event kicks off with a screening of Danwei TV shows on a big screen, including new episodes and some unseen material. We will screen a Danwei Music episode about … Continue reading →

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The guqin and earth’s greatest hits
by Peter Micic

Peter Micic writes about guqin music.

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by Peter Micic

Daniel Pearl World Music Day in Beijing

This Saturday, October 14, at the Beijing CD Jazz Club, the city’s Ah-Q jazz band will be performing a special concert as part of the Fifth Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days global network of concerts: Daniel Pearl Music Days … Continue reading →

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Beijing Bookworm Mini Literary Festival

The Bookworm in Beijing is hosting a literary festival next week. Below is the schedule as provided by the Bookworm. One of the events is a panel discussion about Internet publishing; your correspondent is on the panel together with Hung … Continue reading →

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Shanghai: Stanford Entrepreneurial Conference

From the conference website: Stanford ATI’s annual entrepreneurial conference provides unique networking opportunities for high-profile attendees, especially in giving U.S. based companies the chance to meet many up-and-coming Chinese entrepreneurs. This year’s conference will focus on the rapidly changing nature … Continue reading →

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American Stand-up Comedy in Beijing and Shanghai

Chopschticks, the stand-up comedy outfit, has a show this weekend, featuring Bernadette Pauley of Comedy Central and Al Ducharme: Shanghai: Friday, July 14th at 8:00pm Beijing: Saturday, July 15th at 7:30pm For details on the venues and how to book, … Continue reading →

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Drunk punks on film in Beijing

Kevin Fritz is a young American from Pennsylvania who followed Beijing punk band Joyside around China. He filmed them perform in bars nationwide, their manic tour fueled by huge quantities of beer. The documentary that resulted is called Wasted Orient. … Continue reading →

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Tonight in Beijing: Australian Stories at the Bookworm

Geraldine Brooks photographed Jerry Bauer Feeling down about football commentators with prejudices against antipodeans? Stand up for the Australians by going to the Bookworm tonight for this book talk event: Novelist and recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, … Continue reading →

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Ziboy’s Beijing and global photo blog exhibition

In the Beijing subway This is from the man behind the wonderful Beijing photoblog Ziboy: On April 29th, I will have an exhibition named Here – Photoblogger Ziboy’s Self Expression at Beijing Dimensions Gallery in China. Besides displaying my photographs … Continue reading →

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