Special screening of Xu Xing`s documentray “My Cultural Revolution”, in the presence of the director

Event schedule:

18.30 p.m. – opening cocktail
19.00 p.m. – event start

Who is Xu Xing

Xu Xing was born in Beijing in 1956. Novelist, he`s considered a "spiritual father" by some younger writers movements. He`s currently working also as a documentarist and cinematographer. His famous novel "WHAT`S LEFT ALL BELONGS TU YOU", written between the 80`s and the 90`s and become soon popular amongst the chinese young generations, is been compared to Kerouac`s "On the Road", Salinger`s "Catcher in the rye" or even to Henry Miller`s desperate monologues. The desecrating and nonconformist tone, the sincerity of confessions, the drunkennes, the wanderings, sex and drugs... Actually this "Chinese Kerouac" has his own proper irony, attracted as he is to the comic side of events, a mocking irony that picks on Maoist China, the "new" China`s amazing economic development and Europe, where he move with his friend and travel mate.

"MY CULTURAL REVOLUTION"

Xu Xing didn`t spend his Cultural Revolution with intellectuals and Party cadres, but at school, on the streets of Beijing e in the deprived country of the North-east of China. His revolution is the revolution of Mao`s people, a generation that never had the opprotunity of express itself. Therefore the author leaves in search of this revolution scares in contemporary China.