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Every Monday at 9:00 a.m., we meet on time to provide you with a guide to the literary and artistic life in Beijing for the coming week.
Whether you like theater, exhibitions, literature, fine arts, or movies, television and music, the Beijing Literary and Art Calendar can provide you with enough rich content and free choice. This is our literary and artistic contract with the city of Beijing.
Monday, November 1st
【Episode】"Sea of Stars"
Starring: Liu Tao, Lin Feng
(Hunan Satellite TV, Youku) The drama focuses on the Chinese dream in the era of reform and opening up. Young people such as Jian Ai, a small town girl played by Liu Tao, went south to start a business, and Lin Hengzhi, a business talent played by Lin Feng, Li Yiming, the son of a state-owned factory director played by Lu Fangsheng, and Wen Xin, the daughter of the deputy mayor played by Chai Biyun, experienced a life story of more than 20 years from the 1990s to 2014, showing the fighting spirit of a group of ordinary workers who fought for their dreams.
【Episode】"For You Thousands of Times"
Starring: Fang Xiaodong, Zhang Xinyi, Li Zhehao, Wang Siyi
(Mango TV 11:30) Actor Zheng Zeyuan accidentally discovered that using the camera can travel back to the time and space in the photo, 7 photos, 7 chances, for the beloved girl, he travels back in time and space to fight against fate, trying to change the tragic ending with the butterfly effect.
【Movie】"Wuhai"
Director: Zhou Ziyang
(Plot / Love / Suspense) Huang Xuan and Yang Zishan play a young couple living in a small city, but the two who love each other are resentful and entangled due to the escalation of contradictions, and have a rather unhappy life. A mirage-like illusion shines into reality, a storm strikes, and everything in the numbness ushers in another awakening.
【New Book】"Contempt"
Author: Alberto Moravia
(Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House) Italian writer Moravia has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 15 times, and is a great writer who is only one step away from the Nobel Prize. In this work, he writes about the life of a couple. After two years of marriage, the husband was defeated in the face of work, money, and ideals, and the wife's contempt became the greatest punishment for him. He constantly wonders why he is despised by his wife, but he pushes her farther and farther away, and an otherwise happy marriage is about to collapse.
Tuesday, November 2nd
【Exhibition】Xinghui - Xu Lei's solo exhibition
(Nanchizi Art Museum 11.02~02.28) In Xu Lei's new work, he invests his world cultural vision into the ancient Chinese artistic conception, constructing a landscape of grass snakes and gray lines and thousands of veins, while the artist's individuality is deliberately stripped away, like an invisible creator, reconstructing the fantasy of globalization across time and space. Viewing the exhibition in the garden architectural space of nanchizi art museum is a unique artistic enjoyment. #不容错过 #
【Episode】"Love in Powder Snow Time"
Starring: Gao Minrui, Xu Xiaonuo
(iQIYI 12:00) A pair of first lovers who broke up due to a misunderstanding, many years later, each encountered a career bottleneck, and because of skiing, they intersected again, and thus triggered a series of ridiculous "struggles". In the end, the two sides let go of their prejudices, worked together to get through the difficulties, and re-composed the love song.
Wednesday, November 3rd
【Episode】Fatal Wish
Starring: Feng Shaofeng, Wen Qi, Fan Chengcheng, Guo Zifan
(iQiyi 20:00) The light science fiction, adventure, and suspense web drama "Fatal Wishes" tells the story of an app called Wisher that appears on the mobile phones of a group of college students without warning, and as long as you make a wish to it and complete a simple task assigned randomly, the wish can be fulfilled. A group of young people who cannot withstand the temptation are trapped in it, and behind everything, they are controlled by a mysterious organization.
【Movie】"Good Family Woman"
(China Film Archive Xiaoxitian Hall 1 19:00 Plot) The China Film Archive launched an exhibition of Huang Jianzhong's works, reviewing the important works of the representative of China's fourth generation of film directors. "Women of a Good Family", which came out in 1985, is the opening film of this film festival, which accuses feudal society of destroying women at the same time, but also calls for beautiful humanity, with reflection on culture, the style is subtle, romantic and solemn. #不容错过 #
【New Book】Concrete Island
Author:[English]J· G. Ballard
With black humor and extraordinary imagination, the author examines the unexpected "blind spot" of modern life - a desert island hidden in the hinterland of the city; unarmed, but must survive on a desert island. The work takes the reader to see not only the dark ruins between the cracks in the concrete jungle of the city, but also the subtle desires of the urban people's hearts and minds. In Britain, where class solidification is "traditional", Ballard records the moment when the class structure collapses.
Thursday, November 4th
【Exhibition】A sharp pen carved poetic soul - Wang Mai Rod Art Exhibition
(National Art Museum of China 10.26~11.07) Modern printmaker Wang Mai Guan, formerly known as Wang Xingtang, was later famous for his wheat wan. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he used woodcuts as a weapon to create a large number of works that reflected social disasters and expressed the sufferings of the people. In addition to art creation, he is also committed to the cause of art education and has cultivated a large number of art professionals. The exhibition will exhibit Wang Maizhan's prints, sketches, watercolors, gouache and other works, as well as related text and image materials, to comprehensively present Wang Maizhan's artistic achievements in life.
【New Book】"Red Luck"
Author: [Vietnam] Wu Chong Bong
(Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House) The work tells the absurd experience of a street wanderer in colonial society. The novel depicts what Hanoi saw in the early twentieth century in a realistic way, from the dirty pedestrian streets of the old business district to the flashy mansions of the emerging upper class, and recreates many of the characters in the trend of the times in a panoramic manner, full of anger and irony about the Westernization of Late Colonial Vietnam.
【Episode】"Dreaming of a Lion"
Starring: Yao Chi, Chen Yucheng, Fu Jing, Xie Xingyang, Wu Yuheng
(iQIYI 20:00) The modern urban romance drama "Dreaming of a Lion" is based on the novel of the same name by Xiao Fox, which tells the story of the love conflict, cultural conflict, artistic concept conflict between Yu Fei, a young female actress of Peking Opera, and Bai Feili, a producer of two-dimensional stage dramas, as well as the story of growing up and breaking through herself in conflict.
Friday, November 5th
【Movie】"Tianshu Qitan 4K Commemorative Edition"
(Animation/Fantasy) Remember the story of Egg Boy and the three foxes fighting each other? This animation film is a childhood shadow of many people when they are young, and it is also one of the fine works of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio. After 38 years, this movie will meet you again in the form of a 4K restored version, let us enjoy this domestic animation classic full of imagination and oriental aesthetic style on the big screen. #不容错过 #
【Movie】"Family Suffering"
(China Film Archive Baiziwan Hall 19:00 Plot/Family) If you've ever been devastated by Huang Lei's Trouble Family, check out this original film, which is the cruel contrast between the buyer show and the seller show. Whether it is the delicate observation of family relations or the super control of comedic effects, Yamada Yoji is a master.
【New Book】"The Ugliest Woman in the World"
Author: [Polish] Olga Tokarczuk
(KEY· Can Culture | Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House) Bored women enter the detective novels she is reading; men are "obsessed" with "the ugliest woman in the world" and follow her all their lives; British psychology professors are trapped in a foreign land for a week, full of dangers; female dancers write letters to their long-broken fathers over and over again that they will not send... With 19 elven stories, Tokarczuk writes about all kinds of loners in different senses, unfolding their own adventures that overlap and overlap between the mind and the real world.
Saturday, November 6th
【Exhibition】Meet Chagall: Love and Color
(Meet the Museum in Space, 10.18~01.16) This is the first offline venue of the Meet the Museum, located in Beijing Yintai Center in01. In the history of modern painting, Chagall was an artistic prodigy comparable to Picasso and Matisse. With the help of Chagall's 28 representative paintings and 127 rare prints, the exhibition will take us on a healing journey of love, life and art.
【New Book】"The Undemolished Life"
Author: Li Weichang
Baudelaire, Flaubert, Chekhov, Chandler, Nabokov, Kiyoharu Matsumoto, Glass, Naipaul, Sontag, Bullock, Winterson... The life we experience ourselves helps to understand the growth of a good writer, how many difficulties he has overcome, how many crises he has resolved, and his belief that life will be interrupted but cannot be destroyed. The author hooks the line, traces and traces, from a book to a person, from a clue to lead out a story, from the book to the outside of the book, witnessing countless brilliant and displaced lives.
【Variety】"Sing all the way"
(Oriental Satellite TV 20:00) This outdoor original music travel variety show is composed of four guests: Li Jian, Hu Haiquan, Hu Yanbin and Yan Renzhong. Four big boys who can play the guitar form a music treasure hunting group to start a new outdoor music journey in the four music cities, looking for local treasure musicians, jointly discovering the stories of original musicians and urban culture, and creating an audiovisual feast containing urban culture.
Sunday, November 7
【Movie】"The Taste of Cherries"
(China Film Archive Xiao Xitian Hall 1 15:30 Plot) The masterpiece of Iranian film master Abbas Kiarostami once brought Iran the first Palme d'Or. The film begins with the story of a suicidal man looking around for a buried man, exploring the philosophy of life and death. Even if it is difficult to live, there will be a glimmer of hope because of the sweet taste of cherries.
【Exhibition】The Realm of Existence- Contemporary Art Exhibition
(Tsinghua University Art Museum 10.22~12.12) This exhibition brings together 13 important artists active in the Chinese contemporary art stage, including Fang Lijun, Qi Haiping, Li Tianyuan, Xiao Lu, Chen Shaoxiong, Chen Qiulin, Yue Minjun, Feng Zhengjie, Haibo, Yan Binghui, Fu Zhongwang, Cai Guangbin and Yan Lei, showing the changes and development of Chinese contemporary art in the past 30 years.
【Episode】"No Rain in Godless Land"
Starring: Zeng Zhiqiao, Fu Mengbai
(iQiyi 22:00) The story is set in the Ami animistic mythology, describing that due to environmental problems, the gods no longer blessed the land and left the human world they loved. Before the last rain of doom falls, all the gods will leave, and it is not surprising that the gods' retreat plan is disrupted by an ordinary human girl. As the world goes into the unknown, the girl discovers that the opportunity to reverse her fate lies with herself and the patron saint.
Source: Yixi Public Account | Reporters Li Li, Yuan Yun'er, Qiu Wei, Lu Yanxia
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