This is reposted from M's website. The lineup looks good, so get your tickets! Thanks to Smart Shanghai for the heads up!
WEEKEND ONE
Friday, March 6
4pm GB Marina Lewycka Becoming a Published Writer at 57
6pm GB Laura Pugno Italian Poetry & Mermaids
7pm GB The Seventh Annual Literary Festival Opening
Join us for a glass of wine
SATURDAY, March 7
10am CR Ridley Pearson The Kingdom Keepers – A Young Readers & Writers Workshop
11am GB Frances Wood The Lure of China: Writers from Marco Polo to JG Ballard
12pm CR Robin Hanbury-Tenison Seventy Great Journeys in History
1 pm GB Marina Lewycka From Tractors to Caravans: Migration in Fiction
2pm CR Jen Lin Liu Serve the People: The Kitchens of China
3pm GB James Fallows Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
5pm GB Markus Zusak Stories, Simplicity and the Book Thief
SUNDAY, March 8
10am CR Tony Ross Illustrated Man: Tony Ross on illustration
11am GB Alon Hilu It Did Not Happen That Way – Retelling History
12pm CR Graham Earnshaw Guerrilla Publishing
1pm GB Nicole Mones The Last Chinese Chef
3pm GB Mohammed Hanif Exploding Mangoes
4pm CR Larissa Lai Mythic Returns, Asian Futures
5pm GB Stella Dong My Three Shanghais
with a guest appearance by James Fallows
6.30pm GB Sunday Festival Films
Popcorn, soda pop and the silver screen
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
Literary Lunch
12.30pm CR Ridley Pearson Flaming Fingernails to Peter Pan: One Writer’s Journey
WEEKEND TWO
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
10am CR Jane Godwin Words & Pictures (for children, ages 6-8)
11am GB Nam Le The Boat
12pm CR Andrea Lingenfelter The Poetry of Zhai Yongming and Wang Ying: A Billingual Reading
1pm GB David Marr Biography and the Afterlife
2pm CR Laurence E. Lipsher Tax Analects of Li Fei Lao
4pm CR Thomas McCarthy Poetry, the Irish and a glass of wine or two
5pm GB Sophie Gee Sex and the City in the Eighteenth Century
SUNDAY, MARCH 15
10am CR Jane Godwin The Write Stuff (for children, ages 10-12)
11am GB Mara Moustafine Secrets & Spies: The Harbin Files – the Russians of China
12pm CR Patrick Cotter Perplexed Skin
1pm GB Henry Reynolds Why Weren’t We Told? The Public Role of History
2pm CR Jonathan Fenby The Past is Always With Us: How China’s Modern History Shapes its Present
3pm GB Neel Chowdhury Blood and Money: Love and Loathing in an Indian Business Family
4pm CR Jeffrey Wasserstrom Global Shanghai
5pm GB The Inaugural Great FT Debate: China's vision of America vs Obama's America
6.30pm GB Sunday Festival Films
Popcorn, soda pop and the silver screen
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WEEKEND THREE
THURSDAY, MARCH 19
5.30pm CR Michael Aldrich The Search for a Vanishing Beijing
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
Literary Lunch
12.30pm CR Stefan Schomann Last Refuge in Shanghai – Of Love and War and Troubled Times, moderated by Tess Johnston
3pm Miriam Clifford, Cathy Giangrande – China: museums -afternoon tea and talk, followed by a museum walk (open to those who purchase the book; spaces limited).
SATURDAY, March 21
10am CR Cyril Cannon The Life and Times of Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor
11am GB Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul
12pm Janice Lee and Kristin Bair O’Keefe – The Path to Getting Published
1pm CR Wang Gang – English: A Novel, with translators Martin Merz and Jane Weihua Pan
2pm CR Stephen Mackinnon Intrigue and Romance in the 1930s – Agnes Smedley’s Shanghai
3pm GB Simon Schama The American History: A Future
4pm CR Liu Hong What English Means to Me
5pm GB Zachary Mexico China Underground:Exploring the Subcultures of a New Global Power
SUNDAY, March 22
11am CR Manying Ip Mixed Identities: Being Chinese in the Diaspora
12pm CR Bamboo Hirst Between Two Cultures
1pm GB Cecilia Chiang Seventh Daughter: A Culinary Journey from Beijing to San Francisco GB
2pm CR Min Jin Lee Late Bloomer or Freedom from Failure moderated by Andrew Yang
3pm GB Pan Jian Feng, Ou Ning and Lynn Pan The Look of the Book: Chinese Graphic Design and Typography, moderated by Defne Ayas
4pm GB Kirsztina Toth Wine & Hungarian Poetry: On the Nature of Love
5pm GB 6pm William F. Zorzi Inside ‘The Wire’: A Scriptwriter’s Perspective
6.30 pm GB Sunday Festival Films
Popcorn, soda pop and the silver screen
SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2008
February 29 - March 16 2008
Click here to view 2008 programme