Results tagged “shanghaibookfair”

• This is pretty damn cool: Two Iranians are reshuffling scenes from Persepolis, a black comedy cartoon by Iranian-French emigre Marjane Satrapi, into a story about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed victory. Where are they working from? GOOD OLD SHANGHAI. Check out the comic here. [AFP]
• The average price of commercial residential houses in Shanghai reached 19,603 yuan per square meter last week. Anybody got a house to sell? Now seems like the time. [People's Daily]
• The Book Fair was wildly successful this week - about 240,000 people visited, buying 28 million yuan worth of books. [Shanghai Daily]

Yesterday afternoon we attended a talk at the JC Mandarin with Cherie Blair and guest speakers Jane Huang and Sha Sha. The Chinese version of Blair's autobiography Speaking for Myself was launched at the Shanghai Book Fair yesterday.

There's an abundance of networking events taking place this week, so whether you're old or young, speedy or slow, Canadian or Scottish, there's an opportunity for you to go forth and mingle.

How many times have you found yourself sitting around your living room just itching to attend a local expo? Didn't think so. Well, for those out there who are interested, get those reading glasses ready. If the previously mentioned Sex Expo ("Sexpo"?) isn't quite your cup of naughty tea, then perhaps this might better suit your uptight needs. As reported last week in Shanghai Daily, the 2006 Shanghai Book Fair will be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center (the former site of Jewish millionaire Silas Hardoon's Old Shanghai garden estate) from August 5 to 11.

While there are blue skies in Shanghai, Typhoon-cum-Tropical-Storm Matsa is bearing down on Beijing, a city that has experienced only four typhoons since 1949. Matsa is responsible for 13 deaths in eastern China. Four people died in Shanghai -- three were electrocuted because of flooding and one construction worker was crushed when his dormitory was toppled. Eighty-four Shanghai streets were flooded over the weekend and so were many nearby farms. Vegetable prices are expected to rise because of it. But Matsa didn't stop people from stealing license plates or going to the Shanghai Book Fair.

On August 6, translations of six Tom Clancy novels will hit shelves at the Shanghai Book Fair.