TICKETS
General Sessions: RMB 50, includes a drink
Headline Sessions: RMB 100, includes a drink
Literary Lunches: RMB 200
Students: Half Price
12 Session Pass: RMB 500, includes 10 general sessions and 2 headline
sessions
TO BOOK:
Call (86-21) 6350-9988, 10am - 6pm daily
TICKET COLLECTION:
All tickets must be picked up at least 2 days before the session booked.
A maximum of 4 tickets per person, per session may be purchased.
Tickets can be collected at M on the Bund, 10am - 10pm.
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WEEKEND ONE
Saturday, March 10
10am Love and Erotica in French and Chinese Poetry
Qiu Xiaolong and Tang Loaec
RMB 50
Shanghai-born Qiu Xiao Long is a poet, writer, translator and the
creator of the Inspector Chen mystery series. He is the translator of
Treasury of Chinese Love Poems.
Tang Loaec is a writer, editor and literary critic, whose published
work ranges from literary novels to geopolitical conflict and erotica.
He is the founder of La Venus Litteraire, a website devoted to the
review of literary erotica.
12pm Theatre & Scriptwriting: An Asia-Pacific Perspective
Wang Xiaoli and Katherine Thomson
RMB 50
Beijing-based playwright Wang Xiaoli is a graduate of the Central
Academy of Drama and a former journalist. Recent projects include In
the Bag, the first contemporary Chinese play to be performed in the
U.K., and the screenplay for Return in Winter.
Australian playwright Katherine Thomson co-wrote Answered by Fire, for
which she won a major AWGIE award, Diving for Pearls and Change in the
Weather (for which she also wrote the screen adaptation), among other
plays.
2pm From Shanghai to Hong Kong: Women's Friendship and Writing
Susanna Hoe
RMB 50
Susanna Hoe was born in England and lived in Hong Kong from 1987-97, a
period she describes in Watching the Flag Come Down. She also focuses
on women's history with a special interest in women in China (Chinese
Footprints; Women at the Siege, Peking 1900).
4pm Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
Graham Hodges
RMB 50
Graham Hodges is a Distinguished Fulbright Professor of History at
Peking University the author of several books on New York City and
African-American history. His new book, Taxi: A History of the New York
City Cabdriver is coming out this month in the U.S.
6pm Headline Session: Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal: In Conversation with Bob Carr
RMB 100
Widely considered America's finest man of letters, Gore Vidal is a
novelist, essayist, playwright and provocateur - and a shrewd,
uncompromising observer of American political history and world
culture.
Bob Carr is the former Premier of New South Wales, an author and an
acknowledged expert on some areas of U.S. History, notably Abraham
Lincoln.
Sunday, March 11
10am - CHILDREN: The Cat in the Hat Birthday Party ~ Crystal Room
Various readers, famous and not yet famous
RMB 50
Storytelling, activities and 50 candles for the Cat in the Hat (who
turns 50 in March)
10am - Inspector Chen: The Shanghai Story ~ Glamour Bar
Qiu Xiaolong
RMB 50
Shanghai-born Qiu Xiao Long is a poet, writer, translator and the
creator of the Inspector Chen mystery series, which is set in Shanghai.
12pm Literary Lunch: The Rise of India
Pankaj Mishra
RMB 200
Pankaj Mishra is a writer and literary critic. His latest book,
Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and
Beyond, describes his travels through a changing subcontinent.
2pm Headline Session: Madhur Jaffrey
Taste Memories with Madhur Jaffrey
RMB 100
Bestselling cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey introduced home-cooked
Indian cuisine to food lovers around the world. An award-winning
actress, her recently published memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees,
describes a childhood filled with remarkable tastes.
4pm New Writing from Ireland
Double Session
Claire Kilroy: The Last of the Old Irish
Claire Kilroy will read from her literary thriller, Tenderwire, which
has been shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year.
Mike McCormack: The Rural Postmodern
"The best kept secret in Irish fiction," Mike McCormack is the author
of an award-winning collection of short stories (Getting it in the
Head), a New York Times book of the year, and two novels. He will read
from his latest novel, Notes from a Coma.
RMB 50
Thursday, March 15
6pm Headline Session: The Man Booker Prize Lecture: Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai, Winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize for The Inheiritance
of Loss
RMB 100
Kiran Desai is the author of Hullaballo in the Guava Orchard, which
critics praised for its prose and the potential of its author. Eight
years later, she published The Inheiritance of Loss, an extraordinary
novel that explores, with intimacy and insight, nearly every
contemporary international issue: globalisation, multiculturalism,
economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence.
WEEKEND TWO
Saturday, March 17
10am Stranger in a Strange Land: On Writing in a Foreign Land
Guo Xiaolu
RMB 50
Guo Xiaolu is the author of two semi-autobiographical novels, Village
of Stone, contrasting the life of a girl from a small southern Chinese
fishing village with life in modern Beijing, and A Concise
Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, a love story in the form of a
dictionary.
12pm Surviving Iraq: High Tea in Mosul and the Human Face of Iraqi
Suffering
Lynne O' Donnell
RMB 50
Lynne O'Donnell is a journalist, formerly based in Beijing, and now
Hong Kong, whose first novel is about two Englishwomen who married
Iraqi men and settled in Mosul over 30 years ago.
12pm Shanghai Writers on Shanghai Writing [session in Mandarin, no
translation]
with Qiu Xiaolong, Chen Danyan and other writers of, and from, Shanghai
Shanghai-born Qiu Xiaolong is a poet, writer, translator and the
creator of the Inspector Chen mystery series, which is set in Shanghai.
His latest book is Case of Two Cities.
Chen Danyan is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and children's
literature, who is well known for her Shanghai stories. She is working
on an in-depth book about the Bund.
2pm La Verite de l'autre [session in French, no translation]
Arlette Shleifer and Joseph Vebret, moderated by Tang Loaec
RMB 50
Arlette Shleifer is a painter, novelist and the author of four books,
including one set in Taiwan.
Joseph Vebret has published essays, anthologies and a novel (Souffre
Plaisir) , which received an award from the Societe de Gens de Lettre.
Tang Loaec is a writer, editor and literary critic, whose published
work ranges from literary novels to geopolitical conflict and erotica.
4pm Headline Session: John Ralston-Saul
RMB 100
John Ralston-Saul is a world-renowned Canadian essayist, author and
philosopher. His most recent work is The Collapse of Globalism, a
critique of the international financial system.
Sunday, March 18
9.45am - Abracadabra! Books, Writing and the Magic of it All ~ Glamour
Bar
Gail Carson Levine
RMB 50
Gail Carson Levine writes fairy tales with a twist. These include Ella
Enchanted, which won a Newbery Honor award. She is also the author of
Writing Magic - Creating Stories That Fly.
10am - Passion: Themes of love, family and relationships
Celestine Vaite
RMB 50
Celestine Vaite is a Tahitian novelist and the author of short stories
and two novels, Breadfruit and Frangipani, centred around a large,
extended Tahitian family and the universal themes of love, family and
relationships.
12pm Headline Session: Jan Morris
Sunday Brunch with Jan Morris, in conversation with Simon Winchester
RMB 200
Born James Humphrey Morris in 1926, Jan Morris began her career as a
journalist, later becoming a full-time traveller and writer. Her works
include the Pax Britannica trilogy, Hong Kong and her latest, Trieste
and the Meaning of Nowhere.
2pm Fiction Writing Master Class with Romesh Gunasekera ~ Glamour Bar
Romesh Gunasekera
RMB 50
Romesh Gunasekera was born in Sri Lanka and moved to London in 1971. He
is the author of Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
2pm Poetry From Two Worlds: American poet Daniel Hall and Chinese poet
Wang Xiaolong, translated by Qiu Xiaolong ~ Crystal Room
RMB 50
Daniel Hall is an American poet, the author of two collections of
poetry, and is currently Writer-in-Residence at Amherst College.
Wang Xiaolong is a Chinese poet whose work reflects contemporary China.
Shanghai-born Qiu Xiao Long is a poet, writer, translator and the
creator of the Inspector Chen mystery series. He is the translator of
Treasury of Chinese Love Poems.
4pm Beasts of No Nation ~ Crystal Room
Uzodinma Iwaela
RMB 50
Uzodinma Iwaela was born of Nigerian parents in Washington, D.C. His
outstanding first novel, Beasts of No Nation, relates the experiences
of a young African boy, conscripted into an army of guerilla fighters.
The book won the four major "first fiction" prizes in the U.S.
4pm Headline Session: Dai Sijie
Depuis la petite tailleuse chinoise [en francais]
After the Little Chinese Seamstress [session in French, no translation]
RMB 100
Novelist and filmmaker Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. He left for
France in 1984, and has lived and worked there ever since. Dai, who
writes in French, is the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress, Mr Muo's Travelling Couch and Le nuit ou la lune n'est pas
levee.
6pm The Pleasures of A Wandering Life
Simon Winchester
RMB 50
Simon Winchester is an adventurer, author and award-winning foreign
correspondent (for The Guardian), whose books include River at the
Centre of the World - a journey up the Yangtze - and his latest, Crack
at the Edge of the World, about the California earthquake of 1906.
WEEKEND THREE
Friday, March 23
6pm Headline Session: Amy Tan
An Evening with Amy Tan: Musings on Joy, Luck and Fate
RMB 100
Amy Tan is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club,
the internationally best-selling novel about mothers, daughters,
culture and identity. Her latest novel, Saving Fish From Drowning, was
published in 2005.
Saturday, March 24
10am The Adventures of a Wildlife Photographer
RMB 50
Jan Latta is an author and wildlife photographer whose encounter with a
mountain gorilla in Rwanda inspired her to create a series of books for
children on endangered animals.
12pm Literary Lunch with Amy Tan: The Journey to Becoming a Writer
Amy Tan, in conversation with Charles Foran
RMB 200
Amy Tan is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club,
the internationally best-selling novel about mothers, daughters,
culture and identity. Her latest novel, Saving Fish From Drowning, was
published in 2005.
Canadian author
2pm Writing China: Stories, Real and Otherwise
RMB 50
Canadian author Charles Foran, a regular visitor and occasional
resident of China for the past 18 years, reflects on writing fiction
and non-fiction about the country.
4pm Namu: Wisdom From the Land of the Daughters
Namu Erche Yang
RMB 50
Namu Yang is from the matrilineal Moso ethnic group. She left her
village on the shores of Lugu Lake to attend the Shanghai Conservatory
and later became a professional singer, top model, and a prolific
author. She tells her remarkable story in Leaving Mother Lake: A
Girlhood at the Edge of the World. Her latest book is Being Born
Beautiful is not the Same as Being Beautiful.
Sunday, March 25
10am Die Tradition der Singvogelhaltung in Beijing – eine literarische
Reise ins alte Peking [auf Deutsch]
The Birds of Beijing - A Journey Into Old Peking [in German, no
translation]
Rainer Kloubert in conversation with Professor Hans Heindrischke
RMB 50
Rainer Kloubert on the history of birds in Beijing, and the insights it
gives into the life, times and culture of old Peking.
Hans Heindrischke is the Head of the School of Modern Languages at the
University of New South Wales, and the reader for all Rainer Kloubert's
drafts.
12pm Getting It Published
Jo Lusby, Tim Murray, Benython Oldfield
RMB 50
Jo Lusby, General Manager of Penguin (China), Tim Murray, Managing
Director of Ringier Publishing, and Benython Oldfield, literary agent,
on the nuts and bolts of getting that book published.
2pm The Post-Amy Tan Generation
Globalisation, technology and the changing Chinese diaspora - and its
impact on young Chinese writers
Tze Ming Mok
RMB 50
Described as a new critical voice from the New Zealand Chinese
community, Tze Ming Mok will speak on globalisation, technology, the
changing Chinese diaspora and its impact on young Chinese writers.
The Bund from a Chinese and Western Perspective
It's Shanghai's most famous street - but does everyone look at it the
same way? Two writers with books on the Bund - one Shanghainese, one
British - share their views.
4pm The Bund: A Chinese Perspective
Chen Danyan
RMB 50
Chen Danyan is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and children's books
and is well known for her Shanghai stories. She has just completed an
in-depth book about the Bund.
6pm The Bund ~ A Chinese and Western Perspective
Peter Hibbard
RMB 50
Peter Hibbard studied city planning and urban sociology before shifting
his focus to the study of the historical development of tourism in
China. His book The Bund will be launched at this session.
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