Through the Looking Glass in Chengdu

A quick plug for an event at the Chengdu International Literary Festival:

Chengdu International Literary Festival 2010

 

Through the Looking Glass – China’s Foreign Journalists From Opium War to Mao

 

Paul French brings to life the larger-than-life personalities of a bygone China foreign press corps. It offers a sparkling insight into the antics of the foreign hacks, including the opium addicts, concubines, missionaries, spies among them – and provides a window on this tumultuous period and shows what impact they had on the world at the time… both for good and for bad.

Date: Monday 29th March

Time: 7.30pm

Venue: The Chengdu Bookworm – Yujie East Road 2-7#, Renmin South Road 28#, Chengdu

Price: RMB30

More Details and Tickets: http://www.chengdubookworm.com/literaryfestival.php