Time: 2-4 PM, 18 August 2012
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd. Shanghai
Co-organizers: China Cultural Consultancy, Dutch Consulate General in Shanghai, Xindanwei
Language: Chinese and English
Cost: Admission free (reservation required), refreshments provided

Notice: This event is by reservation ONLY. And we are expecting no more than 40 audiences. Please complete the reservation form on this page before you come.

What do the Chinese and the Dutch have in common? When they live in each other’s country, what makes them happy? What makes them worry? And when they go home, what new understanding do they have of themselves and their culture? This Chinese-Dutch Intercultural Workshop helps you make better sense of China and the Netherlands through reading and discussion.

The preliminary schedule for the workshop:
- Recent cultural exchanges between China and the Netherlands
- Dutch books recently translated and published in China
- Author’s introduction to the new novel Red Cricket about a Chinese woman back home in Shanghai after ten years in the Netherlands who unearths taboo history
- Intercultural communication workshop: interactive understanding of Chinese and Dutch cultures – culture shock abroad and reverse culture shock back home.
- Q&A
- Book signing

About Speaker:
Yue Tao is a professional writer and intercultural trainer living in Amsterdam. Born in Shanghai, she took a B.A. in English language and literature at Fudan University and an M.A. in social sciences (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. She publishes in Chinese and English. Red Cricket is her first novel. A sequel set in the Netherlands is in progress.

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