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The Bookworm’s popular wine club meets tonight for fabulous wines, great conversations and expert grape guidance from The Wine Republic. 150RMB per head including 4 wines and tasty canapés. Call Coen on 6586 9507 for reservations.

Tuesday 20th May 7.30pm

Bamboo Goalposts! A booklaunch with Rowan Simons

Rowan Simons, founder of Beijing’s soccer institution Club Football, has been promoting the beautiful game in China since his arrival in the late 1980’s. Bamboo Goalposts is a fascinating insight into football in China at every level from amateur kids kick-arounds to the complex relationships involved in professional international football. Come and help celebrate the very first Beijing launch of Bamboo Goalposts, featuring readings from the author.

Saturday 24th May 10am – 12pm

NGO and Charity Networking Day!!

Are you interested in charity work or good causes in Beijing, but don’t know how to get involved? Today, The Bookworm showcase some of the city’s most interesting, and worthwhile, not for profit organizations, offering advice for prospective volunteers and giving you ideas on how to use your time to worthwhile ends over the coming months. Mail bookwormjenny@gmail.com for details.

Sunday 25th May 11am – 12pm

Kids Club at The Bookworm

Bring your kids along for a morning session of reading and activities. Aimed at promoting a love of books and reading in children, our sessions are fun, informal and open to everyone. In English.

Tuesday 27th May 7.30pm

James Fallows at The Bookworm

Celebrated journalist James Fallows comes to give a long awaited presentation at The Bookworm! National Correspondent for the Atlantic, James has worked for the magazine in locations worldwide for nearly twenty five years. He has also spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of US News & World Report, and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. Fallows has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award five times and has won once; he has also won the American Book Award for nonfiction. James Fallows has recently returned to China for research for a brand new book – the details of which will all be revealed this evening!

Tuesday 3rd June 7.30pm

‘Plan B 3.0’

A Booktalk by Lester Brown

The eight warmest years on record have all occurred in the last decade.

The world now consistently consumes more grain than it produces; grain stocks are now at a historic low. One fifth of the U.S. grain harvest is now being turned into fuel ethanol. One third of reptile, amphibian, and fish species examined by the World Conservation Union are considered to be threatened with extinction.

Lester Brown, Director of the Earth Policy Institute, and author of the ground breaking ‘Plan B’, returns to The Bookworm tonight to outline his ambitious and progressive ideas for re-shaping the way we treat our planet. Unless your carbon emissions are zero, you make your own clothes and recycle everything you use, it’s your duty to attend this talk!

Thursday 5th June 7.30pm

‘Untouched’ – an artist’s talk and film screening

With Varvara Shavrova

‘Untouched’ is a documentary film and photo project comparing and contrasting two villages, in the unlikely locales of rural Ireland, and south Beijing. Fascinating, thought provoking, and funny by turns, the films reflect the differences and unlikely similarities between two micro communities during times of great change. Russian born Varvara, and her film, will be introduced by Irish Ambassador, Mr Declan Kelleher.

Sunday 8th June 11am – 12pm

Kids Club

Bring your little ‘uns for a morning session of reading activities and games! Each week we choose from a selection of new and classic children’s books, helping kids to enjoy the fun side of reading. Story telling, word puzzles and drawing for ages 4 and up.

Tuesday 10th June 7.30pm

‘The New Confucianism’

A Booktalk by Daniel Bell

What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an unexpected portrait of contemporary Chinese society. Daniel A. Bell, China analyst, and lecturer in political philosophy at Tsinghua University, makes a second appearance at The Bookworm this evening to launch his new book, following the jampacked launch of his ‘Beyond Liberal Democracy’ in 2006.

11th June 7.30pm

‘Rivals: How the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade’

A Booktalk by Bill Emmott

In the coming years, for the first time in history, Asia will not be dominated by one country or by outside powers. According to Bill Emmott, as China, India and Japan develop and change, the future of the world economy will be determined by the competition between these three countries, as will world politics. Emmott, former editor of The Economist (1993 – 2006) comes to The Bookworm to outline the predictions and analysis from his brand new book.

Thursday 12th June 7.30pm

Basically Beethoven

Join us for an evening of musical delights as we host another fabulous ‘Basically Beethoven’. The city’s most eclectic open mic night, BB provides an opportunity for musicians of every persuasion to take to the floor and entertain. Hosted by the magnificent Paul Eldon; open to new musicians, old hands and enthusiastic audiences alike.

Tuesday 17th June 7.30pm

Forgotten Beijing

Eric Abrahamsen, principal contributor to ‘Beijing by Foot’, will be speaking at the Bookworm about his new project, a collection of Beijing walks. Forgotten Beijing comes to life as Abrahamsen researches the walks, discovering some of Beijing's lesser known historical sights, from the underground tunnels traversing Beijing to exploring the trail of the recently demolished Milk Palace, where nursing women produced human milk for the consumption of the imperial court.

Thursday 19th June 7.30pm

The Bookworm Wine Club

180RMB per person

The Bookworm and The Wine Republic get together to bring you a classic evening of wine tasting, good conversation and tasty treats from the kitchen. Tonight, we’ll sample 6 fine wines from three very different wine producing regions of Australia – the Yarra and Barossa valleys, and the Margaret River area in the West. With Campbell Thompson and Shi Ying.

Friday 20th June 7.30pm

‘Gong Ren’

A Photo Booklaunch with Helen Couchman

‘Gong ren’ is a new photographic project taking as its muse the hundreds of migrant workers who are integral to the creation of new Beijing. Usually overlooked as photographers rush to capture the new architecture sprouting mushroom-like around the city, Gong ren makes collaborators of those who’ve built the city, with each photograph signed by its subject.

Join us to celebrate with a glass of something nice, and to hear an introduction from the artist Helen Couchman. For more info see www.soloshowpublishing.com

Sunday 22nd June 11am – 12pm

Kids Club

See above

Thursday 26th June 7.30pm

‘The Bloody White Baron’

A Booktalk by James Palmer

During a little known period of history in the early 1920’s, a Buddhist, proto fascist, megalomaniac Estonian aristocrat was running amok in Mongolia. Following a troubled career in the Russian military, Baron Roman Ungern-Sternberg went on the rampage with a series of gory self funded campaigns across Mongolia, the results of which eventually led to the division and annexing of the country as it exists today.

Popular historian James Palmer regales tonight with tales of ‘The Bloody White Baron’, from his brand new book, a biography of Ungern-Sternberg.

Wine Club

Thursday May 15th

The Wine Republic

Basically Beethoven

Thursday May 8th

Do you have questions about any of our events?

Get in touch on 6586 9507 or by mailing Jenny at bookwormjenny@gmail.com

The Bookworm

Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road,
Chao Yang District, Beijing
100000, P.R. China

Tel: (010) 6586 9507
Email: books@beijingbookworm.com