Reviews
Art
Wider platform
The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is scheduled to open on November 2, 2007 in the 798 and Dashanzi Art Zone in northeastern Beijing.
The art center will serve as a platform for exhibitions, education and dialogue to further the development of contemporary art in China, according to Guy and Myriam Ullens, founders of the art center, which owns one of the world's largest collections of Chinese contemporary art.
The center is housed in a Bauhaus-styled factory covering a floor space of more than 6,500 square meters, with ceilings up to 9.6 meters high.
It offers an array of educational programs and public events, including gallery tours, screenings, lectures, seminars and hands-on activities, allowing schools, community groups and the public to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary art, according to UCCA artistic director Fei Dawei.
Zhu Linyong
Book
New novel
At 17, Yi Yao, a high school girl from Shanghai, fell in love with a "bad boy". One day, she was alarmed to discover that she was pregnant. Qi Ming, a next-door neighbor to Yi, is ostensibly a "good student" at school and "good child" in the eyes of his parents. The two has long cherished a subtle feeling that swings
between love and friendship.
Their relationship would not change so quickly if Gu Senxiang and her younger brother did not appear in their life. In his newly published novel Cry Me A Sad River (Beishang - Niliu Chenghe), young writer Guo Jingming (pictured) again captures the inner world of urban Chinese teenagers as he has done before. Few older writers have probed the lives of teenagers, troubled by heavy workloads at school, tense relationship with parents and teachers, their adolescent angst, and their precarious puppy love affairs.
Having reportedly sold at least 1 million copies on the Chinese mainland since its release in late April, the book will later this year be translated into Japanese, according to Liu You, vice-general manager of Kodansha Beijing Culture Ltd, publisher and distributor of Guo's novel in Japan.
ZLY
(China Daily 06/05/2007 page20)
