1. Events Calendar Shanghai June 2012

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3. Brainlessness Meets Unhappy ‘Brainlessness’ and ‘Unhappy’ are the characters of a famous Chinese comic.The story said that there are two children, one is called " Brainlessness", one is called " unhappy". "Brainlessness" acts absent-minded, and always make some mistakes. " unhappy" is always awkward, you force him to, then he will do. When others persuaded the two children to get rid of the bad temper, all of them not to take it seriously. In order to help them to correct the shortcomings, the elf turn them into adults. "Brainlessness" is an engineer," unhappy" to become an actor. "Brainlessness" design a one hundred and ninety-nine storey building floor palace, without elevator. So the children climb the building with their bedding, food in order to see the play in the 100th floor. This mistake not only hurt others, but also harm the designer himself, because" Brainlessness" also participated in the Youth Palace ceremony. At the opening ceremony of the day " Unhappy" perform a tiger in a short play named" Wu Song tiger“. When the play comes to the high moment, his nature comes again, ‘the tiger should be killed by Wu Song, but ‘Unhappy’ didn't want to die. When chasing by the ‘Wu Song’,’Unhappy’ beat ‘Brainlessness ’ by mistake. Then he was chased by ‘Brainlessness’. At the end of the story they two fall from the stairs of the building and become the children again. After that they all get rid of their bad habit. In this play, the role player owns the same character with the character in the comic. While the story is quite different. It’s the story of the generation of 80s in Shanghai Continue

4. Brainlessness Meets Unhappy Date: 1 st June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre - Drama Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 180, 150, 120 YuanBooking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

5. Drama' The last eggplant in Jianghu’ Date: 2 nd June,2012 19:30 Venue: Lyceum Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 680, 380, 280, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

6. Drama "Lost" Date: 3 rd June,2012 19:30 Venue: Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts Ticket Price (RMB): 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

7. Dream of Red Mansions Hong Lou Meng, sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber, the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more. The four great houses of Chia, Shih, Wang and Hsueh described in this novel were typical basic political units of feudal society. Such families were linked with the court above and the local officials below to form a network of control with the feudal autocratic state power as its centre. The book depicts the inevitable doom of these families, riven as they are by fierce struggles among themselves and in society, focusing on the tragic love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and also provides a panorama of the lives of people of various levels in the degenerating empire. It is the only one novel so brilliantly integrated with these that readers are fascinated and moved by it. With superb artistry the author presents a panoramic genre-painting, a whole gallery of highly individual yet typical characters. Through detailed descriptions of their daily life he succeeds in depicting their different idiosyncrasies, thoughts and feelings. In the use of dialogue too he shows outstanding skill, putting such distinctive speech into each character's mouth that the reader feels as if he can see and hear the speaker. The Ching Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last feudal dynasty in China. The Chien-lung era (1736-95) was the turning point towards the decline of the Ching Dynasty. Crisis-riven feudalism was already on its last legs. The whole fabric of Chinese feudal society was tottering on the verge of final collapse. This was the period in which Tsao Hsueh-chin the author of A Dream of Red Mansions lived. Tsao Hsueh-chin died in the twenty- eighth year of Chien-lung (1763) The novel is a great realistic work among early Chinese novels, a superb achievement in both ideological and artistic terms. Lu Xun, the great 20th century Chinese writer, has this comment on the novel: "The appearance of A Dream of Red Mansions shatters all traditional ideas and techniques of writing." Continue

8. Shaoxing Opera "Dream of Red Mansions" Date: 6 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Daning Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 580, 380, 280 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

9. Drama "The Life Attitude of Two Dogs" Date: 7 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre - Drama Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 250 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

10. Children's Play "The Ugly Duckling" Date: 9 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Little Friends Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 60 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

11. Drama "The Piano in A Factory" Date: 10 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Art TheatreTicket Price (RMB): 580, 380, 280, 180 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

12. Acrobatic Show Huangpu Sensation Date: 12 rd June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Centre Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 200, 150, 100 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

13. Drama "THE SENSUOUS SENATOR" Date: 13 rd June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre - Studio Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

14. Jason Mraz 2012 Shanghai Concert Date: 14 th June,2012 20:00 Venue: Shanghai Grand Stage (Shanghai Gymnasium) Ticket Price (RMB): 880, 580 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

15. Amin 2012 "Going Home" Shanghai Concert Date: 15 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall Ticket Price (RMB): 380, 280, 180, 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

16. Comedy "My Branch Boyfriend" Date: 16 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Chuangzhi Dream Theater Ticket Price (RMB): 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

17. Metropolitan Opera HD Live - Verdi: Aida Date: 18 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre - Lyric Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 200, 100Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

18. Drama "Son-in-law is Coming" Date: 19 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Arts Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 180, 120, 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

19. Drama "My Horoscope Girlfriends And I" Date: 20 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

20. Comedy "The Left-women" Date: 21 st June,2012 19:30 Venue: Theater of 1933 Old Mill fun Ticket Price (RMB): 200, 120, 100, 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

21. Drama "Awkwardness" Date: 22 nd June,2012 19:30 Venue: Lyceum Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 580, 480, 380, 280 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

22. Piano and Cello Duet Concert Date: 24 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai City Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 160, 120, 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

23. Drama "The Man from Earth" Date: 27 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Drama Salon Ticket Price (RMB): 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

24. Kunplug - Zhang Jun's New Kunqu Charity Concert Date: 29 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Centre Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 880, 480, 280, 180, 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

25. Drama "I Love You - PS" Date: 30 th June,2012 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Arts Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back