From February 25 to March 23, Beijing will be awash in words, with not one, but two literary festivals bringing a slew of writers, poets and intellectuals to town—the Capital M Literary Festival (Feb. 25-March 4) and the Bookworm International Literary Festival (BLF) (March 9-23).
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Capital M's elegant interior will be the fitting stage for a engaging literary festival that starts from February 25. While you can show up on the day and hope for a seat, we recommend getting your tickets now at mypiao.com, as many of the more popular events sell ... Read More
Tickets for the Bookworm's 2012 International Literary Festival are now on sale to the general public. Although the festival doesn't kick off until mid-March, popular events tend to sell out quickly. We suggest buying your tickets as soon as possible. Tickets are available exclusively at the Bookworm from ... Read More
In 1992, General Motors, the largest automobile company in the world, came to China to break into the car market. At the time, the number of cars sold in China was miniscule―less than the total sold in the U.S. state of Michigan. However, GM knew that the sales ... Read More
Level up your knowledge of Chinese cuisine with these six cookbooks covering everything from the Cultural Revolution to the best wines to pair with an Asian-style meal.
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Rhyme-time brother and sister duo Mary Kate and Nate Tate ate their way through—and blogged—over 9,700 miles of ... Read More
From self-published Internet pieces to short stories in literary journals to novels on store bookshelves, a new chapter of Chinese literature is being written. But rare is the chance to read pieces from contemporary literature’s best-known figures in decent English-language translation. Pathlight: New Chinese Writing is a quarterly journal ... Read More
A scholarly exploration of a conflict which even today rankles British-Chinese diplomatic relations, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China is an engaging piece of work, where the lead-up to and consequences of the first Opium War are meticulously laid out. Supplementary materials, such as maps of ... Read More
The problem with being a book snob— and, yes, we admit we qualify—is that style matters. Form matters. Cadence matters. Content, yes, but only if the writer knows how to write. In Cecilie Gamst Berg’s travel book, Don’t Joke on the Stairs, all of that is thrown ... Read More
They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but they should also say don’t judge a book by its author. Midnight Walking, a new teen comic-horror novel, is written by a 17-year-old Beijing international high school student. Since the publisher makes this fact part of the book ... Read More
Mastering Wine for the Asian Palate is first and foremost an extremely good introduction to wine. But the author makes her work unique by using it to expand the vocabulary of wine, creating a guide that is more accessible to Asian audiences. Instead of saying a wine tastes like blackcurrants ... Read More
Foodie Mary Kate Tate just published the ultimate Chinese cookbook, Feeding the Dragon. We caught up with her to get the inside scoop on her book and the journey of creating it.
Why did you start this project?
The idea came about 10 years ago, when my brother, Nate, who ... Read More
Well, it looks like Western capitalism will last through the end of the year, after all. But with more malls opening daily to serve Beijing’s fast spenders and speculation of a “double dip” recession on the horizon, real life looks startlingly similar to Chan Koonchung’s vision of the ... Read More
Chinese rock is a divisive issue among expat music lovers. Some land in China, see a live rock show and—shocked that the genre even exists here—place Chinese rock solidly in their musical blind spots, singing the praises of bands and musicians and refusing to hold any of it ... Read More
Canadian author and artist Douglas Coupland may be best known for coining the phrase “Generation X” with his novel “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture,” but since then he has produced an impressive body of work that examines how technology affects human relations and interactions, human sexuality, social trends ... Read More
The latest addition to a growing trend of blogs turned into books gives readers a taste of the humor, horror and affection of having an immigrant parent. The blog My Mom Is a Fob is the brainchild of Californian ABCs Teresa and Selena Wu. The book features all-too-real dialogues involving ... Read More
Early on the morning of January 8, 1937, a rickshaw driver noticed something odd at the base of Fox Tower. This couldn’t be good—superstitious Peking residents believed the ancient landmark was haunted by demons that appeared as beautiful women, malicious succubi who loved their male victims to death ... Read More
If we were to come up with the most accurate title for Henry Kissinger’s new book, we might call it something wonky like On the Perception of the International System Among the Elite Chinese Leadership. Granted, On China has a more commercial ring to it. And when we pick ... Read More
The atrium of the Opposite House is the atmospheric setting for a book reading by Red Gate Gallery artist-in-residence Royston Tester, author of the short-story collection Fatty Goes to China.
Tester's prose explores the strange lives of people trying to find a home in "unaccomodating places", whether it be ... Read More
The Bookworm has just finished a massive round of spring (well, technically late summer) cleaning and is holding a booksale to get rid of tons of library-clearance books. So grab your reusable bookbag and head on over to pick through the piles of books in search of hidden literary gems ... Read More
Alan Paul was living a suburban dad existence in the States when his wife accepted a position with the Wall Street Journal as the Beijing bureau chief. In August 2005, the couple and their three kids moved to Beijing, just as the city began to crank it up for the ... Read More
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