Dec 31,2010

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Tropical fruit tours and winter diversions in Changping

The Special Vegetable Base in Xiaotangshan, Changping District offers a unique experience for visitors who can’t make it down south to pick tropical fruits. Exotic fruits are grown at the base, the likes of which are only seen in tropical climates or at the supermarket.

Spanish flamenco prince to have ‘fiery’ debut in Beijing

Flamenco dancing prince and Spanish national treasure Joaquin Marcelo, chief choreographer of Carmen Mota Dancing Company, will bring his new piece, Fuego, a fusion of modern dance elements with flamenco, to Beijing on January 18.

Friday, December 31

Kadosh (1999)
Where: French Cultural Center, 1/F, Guangcai International Mansion, 18 Gongti Xi Lu, Chaoyang District
When: 7:30 pm
Admission: 20 yuan, 10 yuan for students
Tel: 6553 2627

Saturday, January 1

3 Idiots (2009)
Where: Lady Book Saloon, 69 Chengfu Lu, Haidian District
When: 7:30 pm
Admission: Free
Tel: 6270 1928

Sunday, January 2

Lover’s Discourse (2010)
Where: Broadway Cinematheque, 2/F Building 4, north section of Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), 1 Xiangheyuan Lu, Dongcheng District
When: 7 pm
Admission: 60 yuan
Tel: 8438 8258 ext. 8008

Turkish author writes of love and escape in World War II

While there’s no doubt that 2006 Nobel Prize laureate Orhan Pamuk’s the most readable Turkish writer, 69-year-old Ayse Kulin is more widely read.

Poet’s Whitman book a love song to the loner

On Whitman, by prizewinning poet C. K. Williams, offers a penetrating and interesting critique of Walt Whitman as part of the Princeton University Press Writers on Writers series.

Bookworm book listing

Moyo describes postwar development policy in Africa today and takes on one of the top myths of our time: that the billions of dollars in aid sent by wealthy countries are helping reduce poverty and increase growth.

Woman, the symbol of time

Mythology is the root by which a culture understands the world around it, and how it came to be. Most mythologies have some characteristic goddess in charge of the moon. But while the Greek goddess Selene’s mad love brought her down to the earth every night to lay with Endymion, China’s Chang’e never leaves the moon.