Results tagged “yokoono”

• Fons Tuinstra of China Herald says AT Kearney's 6% forecast of China's economic growth in 2009 is ludicrous and offers his own projection — a very precise 8.94%.
• Bob Chen of Global Voices Online gives a good summary of some of the worries and questions that Chinese bloggers have with regards to the 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus package recently unveiled by the central government.
• Tim Johnson of China Rises looks back on his Thanksgiving experiences around the world and observes how easy making a proper thanksgiving dinner in China has become.

From November 23rd through December 15th, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts will be hosting Yoko Ono's first ever solo exhibition in Shanghai. Called Yoko Ono-Fly, the show will present the artist's diverse work from throughout her long career. Ono herself will be at the exhibition opening, which takes place on the evening of November 22nd at 7pm (and which requires advance reservations). And according to the press release, there is more publicity coming your way:

Queen Elizabeth II is shown walking into a room in Buckingham Palace - which is cluttered with camera equipment - wearing her crown and her Order of the Garter robes.

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With visions of sugar plum fairies dancing through their heads, the -Ists began to get into that holiday mood. Well, some did.

Wei Hui's debut into the literary world six years ago was marked by controversy, furore, criticism and ultimately commercial success -- Shanghai Baby was banned by the Beijing Government in April 2000 for its worship of Western culture and blatant representation of female sexuality and its author denounced as "decadent, debauched and a slave of foreign culture." Subsequently, 40,000 copies of the novel were publicly burnt, Hui's editor was fired and Shanghai Baby predictably shot to the top of best-seller lists around the world.