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  • Tossed around by the waves

    2009-11-17 10:37

    An excerpt of He An (The Boat to Redemption)

  • Charting newer heights

    2009-11-17 10:34

    Su Tong must have been born to write, says his friend Wang Gan, who waited seven years to edit his "best work" - The Boat to Redemption.

  • Redemption pays off

    2009-11-17 10:30

    China's Su Tong, 46, won the prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize in Hong Kong yesterday, with his latest work, The Boat to Redemption, a realistic novel set during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76).

  • Book review: Gay author's new novel engrossing, not graphic

    2009-11-16 13:31

    If you are curious about the novel Courage only because it would be the first work of Chinese gay fiction you have read, know this - it is not that gay.Their relationship is explored as an unusually intimate friendship, a bit one-sided, with Gao seemingly more interested in Hao.  The author does a good job in presenting Gao, who loves Hao unconditionally.

  • ABT dances around Don Quixote

    2009-11-14 13:50

    As part of its debut in China, American Ballet Theater (ABT) will perform Don Quixote at the National Center for the Performing Arts, today and tomorrow.

  • Googut Auction preview

    2009-11-14 13:49

    Beijing Googut Auction is offering a preview of its Autumn Auction lots at its new offices.

  • Modern-day Gulliver

    2009-11-14 13:40

    A modern drama adaptation of Gulliver's Travels by Irish writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) retains the satire by using current issues to explore the human condition.

  • CW scrubs up for med-school drama

    2009-11-13 18:09

    The CW is going to medical school with "HMS," an ensemble drama from "Mystic Pizza" writer Amy Holden Jones.

  • LA art museum relaunches after recession-era rescue

    2009-11-13 14:00

    Brought back from the brink of financial ruin by a philanthropist's $30 million gift, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles celebrates its turnaround this weekend with the most ambitious exhibition of its own iconic collection.

  • Africa in focus

    2009-11-13 11:42

    An exhibition, Friends, Partners and Brothers, has 182 photos of natural landscapes, people's lives, arts and culture, and the latest developments in Africa, as seen through the lens of nine renowned Chinese photographers.

  • Taiwan sculptor

    2009-11-13 10:40

    Kang Muxiang, a veteran sculptor from Taiwan, is holding his first solo exhibition of wood sculptures on the mainland at Today Art Museum.

  • Love finds conflict in Schiller masterpiece

    2009-11-13 09:42

    Germany's Meininiger Theater is celebrating the 250th birth anniversary of German playwright Friedrich Schiller with his masterpiece Intrigue and Love.

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