Bandit Lovers on the road

The bizarre love story of Bonnie and Clyde, a couple of collaborating bandits during the Great Depression, became well known with the release of the 1967 Hollywood antihero movie.

Based on intensive research, bestselling Texas author Jeff Guinn offers more of their story in Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Renowned curator talks with Chinese artists

China Talks: Interviews with 32 Contemporary Artists by Jerome Sans has interviews with 32 of the country’s leading contemporary artists, including Ai Weiwei, Fang Lijun, Huang Yongping, Liu Xiaodong and Yue Minjun.

Pan Macmillan Asia book listing

Pan Macmillan Asia, regional hub for the Macmillan Group’s trade publishing enterprises throughout East Asia, recommends the following upcoming books toBeijing Today readers. Find them at the Bookworm, Chaterhouse or Beijing Foreign Language Bookstore.

Faces – The brutality of history, the cruelty of reality

The Chinese expeditionary force was formed in 1942 during World War II to guard the country’s southwest backdoor and to help the British repe the Japanese army in Burma. During the following three years, China sent 400,000 soldiers, half of whom were killed in action.

This episode of history has lapsed from most people’s memories, but when a photographer from Yunna Province started to collect photos of the surviving veterans in 2007, their faces became new evidence of the past.

Carsick Cars CD Release Party

Event information
Tagline:You Can Listen, You Can Talk
Host:Yugong Yishan
Type: Music – Concert
Time and place
Date: 26 June 2009
Time: 21:00 – 1:00
Location: Yugong Yishan
Description:
After touching back down in Beijing last month from their ambitious Grand Tour 2009, a two-month, 23-city trek across the country with Maybe Mars label mates the Gar in tow, China’s most beloved indie rock [...]

Thank Funk It’s Friday

Event information
Tagline:Thank Funk It’s Friday
Host:Bettyzhang
Type: Party – Bar Night
Time and place
Date: 26 June 2009
Time: 18:00 – 23:00
Location: Zeta Bar- Hilton Beijing
Street: 1 Dong Fang Road, North Dong Sanhuan Road, Chaoyang
Phone: 5865 5050/5125
E-mail: zetabar.beijing@hilton.com
Description:
Celebrate the end of the week in the intimate surroundings of internationally acclaimed Zeta Bar whilst listening to some of the finest in [...]

Playing the China Card

By Jack Perkowski
James Zhang and Vivek Raman, the two students who organized the “Asia Tomorrow” conference at Yale University several weeks ago, were very clear in what they wanted me to cover in my keynote speech. They wanted me to give my views as to how China and Asia would develop in the coming years, [...]

Language and Communication in China

By Terri Morgan
Problems that may result from cultural differences in business are compounded by the fact that even though a native speaker of one language has learned the other person’s language, he or she may not have been sufficiently exposed to actual usage of the target language. Mistakes in usage can occur even when grammar [...]

Irony and the Old Lady

(NY Times)
By Cathy Horyn

First go the knees, then goes irony. Sometime around age 50, women start to let go of certain ideas about themselves and fashion. Up till then you can wear lots of silly or brash things, and if you are reasonably fit and attractive or consistently daring, it doesn’t really matter. You’re still [...]

‘West Side Story’ Amid the Laundry

(NY Times)
By Phenelope Green

On a recent evening, Elizabeth Soychak performed jazz standards from Patty Heffley’s West 20th Street fire escape, just yards away from the High Line park, which Ms. Heffley has turned into the site of her ad-hoc Renegade Cabaret.
Just after 9 p.m. on June 17, the third installment of the High Line Park [...]