1. Events Calendar Shanghai January 2013

2. In the Chinese culture, phoenix symbolize lucky. And the Chinese character ' 福 ' means good fortune. Wish you have a lucky 2013!!

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4. Drama "Battle With Wife's Mother" Date: 1st January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Grand Theatre - Studio Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

5. French Musical "Romeo and Juliet" Date: 3rd January,2013 14:00 Venue: Shanghai Culture Square Ticket Price (RMB): 380,480,580,680 780,880,980,1080 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

6. Pet Comedy "Hi Mick!" Date: 2nd January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Drama Salon Ticket Price (RMB): 200, 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

7. Drama "Society" Date: 4th January, 2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Art Theatre - Little Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 200, 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

8. Drama "Sleepless Night" Date: 6th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Studio D6 Ticket Price (RMB): 880, 180, 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

9. "ERA - Intersection of Time" The Multimedia Theatrical Spectacular (Jan.) Date: 7th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Circus World - Circular Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 590, 390, 290, 190, 90 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

10. Agatha Christie "Spider's Web" Date: 8th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Arts Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 300, 200, 150 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

11. Comedy "One Light Year" Comedy "One Light Year" Date: 9th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts Ticket Price (RMB): 300,200,100 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

12. West Chamber West Chamber by the Yuan － dynasty dramatist Wang Shifu has been acclaimed by literary historians and loved by general people. Like A Dream of Red Mansions and Outlaws of the Marsh, it is internationally recognised as a masterpiece. This beautiful love story took place in the Temple of Universal Salvation in Yongji of Shanxi Province. The drama followed a Chinese pattern of a secret meeting of a gifted scholar with a beauty in a back garden, plus trials and tribulations, and finally a happy union. Scholar Zhang and Cui Yingying, the Prime Minister's daughter, fell in love with each other when they met and exchanged verses in a garden. When Cui's family ran into trouble, Zhang bravely came to the rescue. But later Cui's mother broke her promise to give her daughter to Zhang in marriage. The warm － hearted maidservant Hong Niang or Red Girl with her ingenious plans eventually brought the couple together. The sentimental scholar Zhang with sense of justice is an archetype of the talented scholar in ancient Chinese literature. Brought up in an influential family, Cui Yingying is constant in her love for Zhang. "When under Cui's mother's pressure, Zhang took a reluctant leave for Chang'an to seek an opportunity in officialdom. Cui said to him, 'so long you can come back soon, it doesn't matter whether you will be an official or not'. She meant she would marry him even if he could not be an official, because what she loved was the person and not a position," said Zhou Zhaoxin, a professor at Beijing University. The maidservant Hong Niang who passed letters between Zhang and Cui was an intelligent, witty and warm － hearted girl. She left a deep impression on the audience. The language in West Chamber is refined and emotional. Take the song from the act of "Farewell at a Pavilion": The sky is blue, yellow flowers cover the ground; In the west wind the wild swans fly southbound; What dyed the frosted forest red at dawn? In the leaving man's tears the trees drown. In the coda of the drama we hear: "Let all lovers in the world become pairs!" It sublimated the old idea of union of gifted men with beautiful girls to the union of all lovers in the world. This is the most important message from West Chamber. "'Let all lovers in the world become pairs' not only voiced the aspirations of young men and women in the feudal society, but also heralds a new trend of literary liberation in China from the 13th century to the 16th century," said Deng Shaoji, a professor at the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The past half century saw stories, plays, dramas in Beijing Opera and other local operas adapted from West Chamber. Thanks to the influence of West Chamber, the Temple of Universal Salvation in Yongji has become known throughout China. The Pagoda of Sarita in the Temple is nicknamed the Pagoda of Cui Yingying. Wandering in the Temple today the visitors always try to find some traces of this aged, beautiful love story.. Continue

13. Shaoxing Opera Romance of the West Chamber Date: 10th January, 2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center - Opera Hall Ticket Price (RMB): 880, 580, 380, Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

14. Drama "Rotation" Date: 11th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Theatre Academy - STA Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 880, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

15. Comedy Date: 12th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Children's Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute - Malan Flower Rehearsal Hall Ticket Price (RMB): 180,120,80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

16. Drama "The Man from Earth" Date: 13th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Drama Salon Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 150 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

17. Drama "Born in Water" Date: 16th January,2013 13:30 Venue: Shanghai Art Theatre - Little Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 380, 280, 180, 100, 60, 30 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

18. Liaozhai Zhiyi Liaozhai Zhiyi Continue Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio or Liaozhai Zhiyi (also Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio or Strange Tales of Liaozhai, simplified Chinese: 聊斋志异 ; traditional Chinese: 聊齋誌異 ; pinyin: Liáozhāi zhìyì) is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling in Classical Chinese[1] during the early Qing Dynasty. Pu Song Ling is the writer of Liao Zhai Zhi Yi. Pu borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, colorful stories, where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The cast of characters include magical foxes, ghosts, scholars, court officials, Taoist exorcists and beasts. Moral purposes are often inverted between humans and the supposedly degenerate ghosts or spirits, resulting in a satirical edge to some of the stories. Ghosts and spirits are often bold and trustworthy, while humans are on the other hand weak, indecisive and easily manipulated, reflecting the author's own disillusionment with his society. The stories differ broadly in length. Conciseness is the key, with the shortest stories under a page in length. The drama 'Born in Water' is abstracted from Liao Zhai Zhi Yi: Wang Liu Lang.

19. Drama "Next Station" Date: 18th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Xinguang Little Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 150, 120 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

20. Ballet "Swan Lake" by Shanghai Ballet Date: 19th January,2013 19:15 Venue: Shanghai Culture Square Ticket Price (RMB): 580, 480, 380, 280, 180Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

21. Contemporary Dance "Stay Alive" Date: 20th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Little Friends Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 250,200,100,50 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

22. Blanche - A Bebop Musical Blanche - A Bebop Musical Date: 23rd January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center - Studio D6 Ticket Price (RMB): 280, 150 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

23. Drama "Society - Happy Road 13" Drama "Society - Happy Road 13" Date: 24th January,2013 19:30 Venue: Shanghai Art Theatre - Little Theatre Ticket Price (RMB): 220, 200, 180, 160, 150, 130, 120, 100, 80 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back

24. Crosstalk Travelers Date: 27th January,2013 19:15 Venue: Shanghai Oriental Art Center - Opera Hall Ticket Price (RMB): 880, 680, 580, 480, 380 Yuan Booking Office: No. 272 Fengxian Road Booking Hotline: 62172426, 62173055 Back