Each year there are dozens of literary events timed to coincide with the Beijing International Book Fair (Aug 23-27, 2017). They take place both on the fair grounds and throughout the capital, and sponsors include Paper Republic.
As lists of these events-- in Chinese or English -- become available, please list here so that we can all benefit . . .
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Paper Republic isn't organizing the BIBF Literary Salons this year, so I can't help there! To my knowledge, the Beijing Bookworm is doing it for them this year, though I think the whole program is significantly reduced. I haven't been able to find a schedule online yet.
Eric Abrahamsen, August 14, 2017, 2:52a.m.
Here
This year BIBF works with The Bookworm for the events. Don't why Bookworm hasn't posted the schedule on their website yet, though.
Dongmei, August 15, 2017, 4:58p.m.
http://beijingbookworm.com/bookworm-happenings/
Eric put this link up on WeChat. Seems the internet is now the equivalent of snail-mail . . .
Bruce Humes, August 20, 2017, 12:38a.m.
I note that one Aug 23rd session will be devoted to the translation of works by Beijing's Feng Tang.
Interesting. But perhaps not as interesting as the hullabaloo -- which became an "international incident" -- raised when Feng Tang's own racy translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Stray Birds was lambasted by both Chinese and Indian media:
Behind the Bamboo Curtain: At Last the World Is Paying Attention to How Foreign Works Are Translated into Chinese
Bruce Humes, August 20, 2017, 12:52a.m.
Here it is, in Chinese:
https://www.suilengea.com/wn/448/evgbvb.html
Bruce Humes, August 22, 2017, 12:28a.m.
A little late, but AmazonCrossing held an event yesterday afternoon at BIBF to celebrate the launch of Nicky Harman's translation of Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams.
Here's a write up of the event (in which I'm only slightly misquoted): http://www.dzwww.com/xinwen/shehuixinwen/201708/t20170824_16329990.htm
Nick Stember, August 24, 2017, 10:13a.m.