Results tagged “booksigning”

When we first arrived in Shanghai a long, long time ago, all there was to do on weekends was vogue at Bar Rouge---balancing champagne glasses and tottering around on stilettos while trying to not catch our hair on fire. Well, things have changed. Champagne is no longer as popular and now there is a Barbie shop to vogue around at, plus this weekend our Pearl of the East has oystered out an arts scene involving more than the usual bomb shelters, beer and beavers.

One of our favorite Chinese sites seems to have run afoul of the net nanny: vip.bokee.com has been on again off again, but perfectly viewable with a proxy. Using the proxy we saw an article about a list published in a Chengdu newspaper of the top-grossing authors in China, at least based on royalties from the sales of their books. At the top of the list was a Guo Jingming, a young author (born in...

• Chongqing recently held an art event where a professor at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts got four volunteers to paint on the "canvas" of five beautiful women wrapped in cloths. Some of the men were embarrassed. The professor in charge denied that this event had anything to do with the release of his new book and the subsequent book signing.
• This kid from Guangxi, all of 6 years old, can do over 30 pushups in slightly more than 10 seconds. If that doesn't impress you, then consider the fact that he can do more than 10,000 pushups in a little more than three hours. After failing to break the world record last year because of what his dad called a failure to perform under pressure, the kid is set on breaking the world record this year.
• This one is a bit graphic and contains scenes of wanton violence. This 38-year-old man was allegedly tortured by his wife. We're not talking S&M gone wrong here -- this guy was chained like dog and imprisoned in his house while his wife poured scalding water on his head, lit firecrackers near his eyes, and then poured salt, vinegar, and various other materials into his eyes. She would also occasionally starve him or threaten to stab him with a fruit knife if he tried to escape. She even once paraded him down the street, handcuffed. As of now, they are still married.

China may have found the oft-discussed "next Yao Ming." Of course he is only 13 years old, so we'll have to wait a while to find out. But according to the Wenhui Daily, Tian Yuchen is already 205 cm tall -- that's almost 6-foot-9. When Yao Ming was 13, he was "only" 197 cm. Tian is from Changchun in Jilin province and he's already a member of the Shanghai Sharks youth team, the same place Yao got his start. The paper said Tian is considered the "secret weapon" for the Sharks' much-needed CBA turnaround (they are currently 3-5 and dead last in the CBA South Division standings). Tian is actually being trained to play as a guard and he's already signed an endorsement deal with athletic apparel brand Li Ning.