Arts & Entertainment - Upcoming

www.huffingtonpost.com — NEW YORK -- Liu Xia is a forbidden artist whose work is censored in her native China. The photographer, who is under house arrest, uses life-like dolls as metaphors for the pain and suffering of the Chinese people.

www.timeoutbeijing.com — Tickets for the Bookworm International Literary Festival (March 9-23) go on sale this month and are likely to sell out fast.

Check out our recommendations for the top ten events.

www.timeoutbeijing.com — Hollywood, eh: who needs it when you’ve got Vincent Qi living in your city? Two years ago the man was a player – in every sense of the word – on the city’s pick-up artist (PUA) circuit.

www.bbc.co.uk — Gong Yifei swapped life as an armed police officer for a precarious career as a pole-dancing trainer - and he wants pole-dancing to be respected as an art.
"There's no reason to think men are in any way inferior to women when it comes to dance. Especially when it comes to pole-dancing, where masculine strength is as vital as feminine flexibility."

www.mandmx.com — Somewhere high above earth... a space station is docking with a Chinese space ship... Find out WHY?!?!

kingtubby1.wordpress.com — Why does China have a healthy market in Officialdom Fiction, while lacking that Western fiction staple revolving around brilliant detective/CSI creations seeking to bring serial killers to justice.

gochengdoo.com — Just in time to ring in the lunar new year, QQ features photos from Spring Festival in decades past, as well as a write-up of older Chengdu residents' memories of Spring Festival during those times, which we've loosely translated.