▷ "Chinese Culture Night and Shanghai Museum Night" event debuted in Los Angeles. In addition to the wonderful cultural performances, the guests can also enjoy the "New Era Cultural and Creative Art Exhibition" from the Shanghai Museum (including the Blue and Blue Series, the Chinese Red Series and the Jiangnan Spring Series) and the Shanghai-style Food Exhibition, at the same time, the event broadcast a series of micro-documentaries "Great Treasure • Treasure Hunting on the Bo" and so on. The event will also be launched on major U.S. platforms on February 26.
▷Sinan Book Club 8th Anniversary Special Event was held. On February 12, the Sinan Book Club opened this year's reading time with an activity with the theme of "Quiet Reading". Attracting nearly 1,500 guests and nearly 70,000 readers, the 383 edition of the book club has become a spiritual landmark in the minds of readers in Shanghai and even across the country. When "Sinan" became an acronym, it meant a book club, a historical and cultural neighborhood, and a wonderful story of people-to-people encounters that took place here. At the event site, the guests also shared the "Sinan Book List • 2021" released for the first time.
▷ Ye Zhaoyan's new work "The Road to Father" was launched. The novel tells the story of a father and son, and also tells the memory of a family's times. Ye Zhaoyan said that this was a book he had always wanted to write. "The meaning of what I want to say is also simple, that is, I want to pay tribute to the 'fathers'." In this novel, he returns to his original intention of writing, and with more than sixty years of life experience, he faces, pays tribute to, and reflects on the life of his father for the first time, and also returns to the question at the beginning: What did we encounter on the road to our father?
▷ Writer Zhang Jie passed away: I hope that readers who love literature can understand me. Zhang Jie is an important representative writer of Chinese literature in the new era, and his works such as "Heavy Wings", "Wordless", "Love, Cannot Be Forgotten", "Emerald", "Children from the Forest" and so on have a wide influence. She is a writer with a classical idealistic spirit, and after the mid-1980s, the style of Zhang Jie's works changed significantly, from early poetry, romance, idealism, and lyricism to exaggeration, sharpness, vitriol and coldness. Her work has always been permeated with a focus on human nature and adherence to ideals.
Zhang Jie
▷ The death of translator Yi Lijun: The "Bole" of Polish writers such as The Translator Nobel Prize writer Tokarczuk is gone. Since 1962, Yi Lijun has been teaching at the Department of Eastern European Languages of the Beijing Institute of Foreign Chinese (now the Institute of European Languages and Cultures), and has translated a lot of books in her lifetime, and she has introduced and translated many works of Polish masters of the 20th century with the magazine "World Literature", including "The Long Poems of Adam Mickiewicz", "The Poetry of Che Milosz", "My Daughter", "Chopin's Old Garden", etc., and also wrote a monograph "The History of Polish Post-War Literature". She was also the first translator to translate the work of the 2018 Nobel Prize writer Tokarczuk. On November 19, 2018, Professor Yi Lijun won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Translation Culture.
Yi Lijun
▷ The Japanese translation of Jin Yucheng's "Flowers" was published. A Japanese translation of Kim Woo-sung's novel "Blossoms" was released simultaneously on January 25 by Hayakawa Shobo. The translator, Pu Yuanlihua, knows both Chinese and Shanghainese, and became acquainted with the author by translating Jin Yucheng's essay "Ma Yu". The translator said that "blossoming" is not a common word in Japanese, but based on its understanding, the Japanese version retains the original title.
Japanese version cover
▷ Joyce and Beckett's private correspondence is public. Recently, the grandson of Irish writer James Joyce donated a birthday telegram from playwright Samuel Beckett to Joyce to the University of Reading, which was received on Joyce's 49th birthday. Becket, author of the famous novel Waiting for Godot, in a telegram in which Beckett blessed him, "The years pass and the joy returns." "This donation commemorates the centenary of the publication of the novel Ulysses, as well as the 140th anniversary of Joyce's birth.
Birthday Telegram (Photo: University of Reading official website)
▷ Breaking down the wall space and enhancing the green landscape, the Shanghai Exhibition Center, as a landmark of Shanghai, is undergoing a gorgeous transformation. This imposing and unique Russian classical style building has long become a landmark and cultural landscape in Shanghai. Over the past 60 years, many major events and hundreds of domestic and foreign exhibitions have been held here, and the Shanghai Book Fair has been held here for many consecutive years. After the overhaul was launched in March last year, in order to leave more public space and green space for the public, the Shanghai Exhibition Center tried to remove the fence. In this way, the exhibition center hopes to let the public feel the style, culture and historical heritage of excellent historical buildings to the greatest extent.
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▷ Writer btr launches the latest collection of novels. Can an exhibition be a novel? Can a novel be an exhibition? Cross-border media person BTR's new novel "Shanghai Capsule" contains 19 novels, like collecting objects for a vast and complicated museum, btr watches, imagines, wanders, and always in those moments of epiphany, slyly slides to another space, preserving a wonderful capsule for urban life.
▷ The launching ceremony of the 2022 Global Writers Incubation Project and the WSA2021 Awards Ceremony were held. In order to accelerate the development of online literature, Reading Group launched the "2022 Global Writers Incubation Project" in Singapore and unveiled various awards such as the 2021 Outstanding Works of the Starting Point International Global Essay Contest. According to the data released at the event site, as of June 2021, Starting Point International has cultivated nearly 190,000 overseas creators, and more than 280,000 overseas original works have been launched. In recent years, the number of overseas writers on the platform has also shown an accelerated development trend, with an overall increase of more than 3 times, and the "post-00s" have become the main force of overseas online text creation. In terms of the geographical distribution of writers, Southeast Asia and North America have become important regions that "abundant" online writers. "Online writers" are becoming a new career choice for young people overseas.
Event site map (Photo: Reading Group)
▷ The Shanghainese drama "Thunderstorm" premiered at the Chinese Grand Theatre. "Thunderstorm" is jointly produced by Shanghai Baoshan District Shanghai Opera Art Heritage Center and Shanghai Yidong Tianxia Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., and hosted by China Grand Theatre. "We tailored the velvet cheongsam for Fangyi, and when she was in the stage space, she was like a midnight rose in a 'dead grave'." Director Wu Wencong said that "Thunderstorm" has been interpreted and interpreted countless times, and the biggest significance of the classic's continuous interpretation lies in the connection with the present. She wants to dig deep into the desires and greedes in everyone's heart in "Thunderstorm". "Shanghainese is the incision of Shanghai culture, and it is a romantic and fashionable language." Lead actor Hua Wen hopes to bring new diversion to local dramas through the popularity of The Shanghai dialect.
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▷ The 59th Venice Biennale opened in April. The theme of the biennale comes from the mexican artist Leonora Carrington's children's book "Milk of Dreams", which the chief curator Alemani describes as an "allegory" of the last century. In the book, life is constantly reimagined through the prism of the imagination, and based on this setting, the Biennale will invite people to embark on an imaginative journey. The organizers recently announced the lineup of exhibitors for this year's National Pavilion. Among them, the theme of the exhibition of the China Pavilion is "Yuanjing", and Zhang Zikang, director of the CAFA Art Museum, is the curator.
Concept map of the Chinese Pavilion
▷ The full ten seasons of "Friends" HD version is online. Recently, several major video platforms jointly released the news of the launch of "Friends" and opened the reliving mode. One of the most popular television productions of all time, Friends premiered on September 22, 1994 and ended on May 6, 2004, and the series caused a sensation around the world. The story centers on six good friends living in Manhattan, New York, and tells the story of their joys and sorrows and friendships through storms.
▷ State Administration of Radio, Film and Television: During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, it will be regulated that the remuneration of actors shall not exceed 40% of the production cost. Recently, the State Administration of Radio and Television issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Chinese Television Dramas", proposing the order of income distribution, including actors' remuneration, and promoting the use of standardized, institutionalized, and unified film remuneration and other labor contracts. Among them, the total remuneration of actors is required not to exceed 40% of the production cost, and the remuneration of the starring film shall not exceed 70% of the total film remuneration. At the same time, it is proposed to seriously deal with actors and related institutions that have violated laws and regulations such as tax evasion, "yin and yang contracts" and "sky-high film remuneration", and prohibit artists who have violated the law and morality from appearing in tv dramas.
Column Editor: Yuan Huan
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