Literary Festival Event list

From 1842, when the use of a camera was first recorded in China, foreign and Chinese photographers captured the people, places and events of this unsettled period. They were professional portraitists, soldiers and pioneering amateurs, Terry Bennett shares the story and the images behind his comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China: the discovery of photography framed against the tumultuous backdrop of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion and the opening of numerous treaty ports to foreign trade.
RMB 65

Playwright, poet, novelist and Commonwealth Writers Prize winner Louis de Bernière best known as the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – but he is also an accomplished musician who plays the flute, the mandolin, and is a member of a band, The Antonius Players. Listen as this gifted writer discusses the relationship between words and music.In conversation with Steve McCarty.
RMB 65

Journalist James Palmer tells the extraordinary story of Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, the Russian nobleman who became the last Khan of Mongolia  - a larger-than-life figure who rode into battle bare-chested and necklaced with bones, painting a fascinating portrait of an appalling man—and of the zeitgeist that shaped him.
RMB 65