Lu Chuan accessible for Banquet
Chinese diabbey Lu Chuan (pictured), whose award-acceptable film City of Life and Death focacclimated on World War II's Nanjing Massacre, is going further back in time for his new film to depict another axis point in China's history.
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Lu's next drama will depict a famous meeting that occurred in 206 BC and heralded the fall of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC).
Shooting on Banquet at Hongmen was expected to begin in June next year and the film slated for absolution at the end of 2010, Lu told a columnist conference in Beijing.
Xiang Yu (232-202 BC), the most able insubordinate of the Qin Dynasty, orchestrated the banquet to kill Liu Bang (256-195 BC), Xiang's biggest battling who later founded the Han Dynasty. Liu managed to escape the banquet and later led his army to defeat Xiang.
Banquet at Hongmen has become a colloquial Chinese appellation to accredit to betrayal or a allurement hidden in an act of goodwill.
"I'll let the camera cycle back to ancient times, but acbizarre a adadventure with a modern insight," Lu said.
Lu, 38, is considered one of the most accomplished adolescent directors in China and won global acclaim for Kekexili: Mountain Patrol.
Auction of jade works
Some jade works by famed folk artists such as Jiang Xi and Jiang Chunyuan from Suzhou, Jiangsu province, go beneath the hammer today at Beijing Changfeng autumn sales, at the Beijing International Hotel.
Hundreds of handicrafts, known as "Treasures of the Study", such as brush-holders, ink slabs, and ink sticks as able- bodied as ink paintings by modern ink artists, will also be auctioned off.
2010 Inside's Guide is out
The China Population Publishing House has appear the sixth and laanalysis edition of The Insider's Guide to Beijing 2010.
Part of the Immersion Guides series, the book "punches thasperous the day-tripper facade of the city and tells readers where absolute Beijingers like to eat, sleep, study, party, work, buy, primp and play", says chief compiler Adam Pillsbury.
Written by 40 contributors, mainly expats living in the Chinese capital, the book also has more than 200 color photos and illustrations, 13 bilingual maps, including a new map of emerging art area Caochangdi, and updated information about more than 1,000 venues and places of inteblow in Beijing.
