We are now a Penguin Roost bookshop!

Saturday, 2 February 2013, 2:28 | Category : Cafe
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Very proud to announce we are now a Penguin Roost bookshop, part of Penguin China’s book club. So look out for special promotions and activities, including a reading group….

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Here are some of the books Penguin have sent us to get things started…

 

black_dragon-girl_stuff Girl Stuff by Kaz Cooke
A girls guide to the teenage years. More.

 

black_dragon-austen Jane Austen
A lovely hardback edition of seven of Austen’s novels.

 

black_dragon-frontline Judgement on the Front Line by Christopher DeRose
A business guide to front line leadership: Giving employees freedom of initiative in dealing with customers.

 

black_dragon-red_guard The Little Red Guard by Wenguang Huang
A family memoir of growing up in Mao’s China.

 

black_dragon-paper Paper Promises: Money, Debt and the New World Order by Philip Coggan
By taking the long view of money through history, Coggan presents an incisive look at the current financial crisis.

 

Scott Ezell poetry reading at the Black Dragon Cafe

Friday, 7 October 2011, 3:32 | Category : Cafe
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 Scott Ezell poetry reading at the Black Dragon Cafe

 

Hello all,

On Wednesday, October 12, American poet Scott Ezell will read from his books PETROGLYPH AMERICANA and SONGS FROM A YAHI BOW, at 7:30 pm at the Black Dragon Cafe.

Scott has spent many years in China and other parts of Asia, and his work resonates with landscapes and cultures from both sides of the Pacific.

He will also read from a recent series of poems, "Hanoi Rhapsodies," and part of the program will include musical accompaniment.

Hope you’ll be able to come!

All the best,

CC

 


Scott Ezell has given poetry readings and workshops throughout Asia and America. His work has recently been published in the Asia Literary Review, and last year he was invited to participate in Authors for Peace, an international event based in Berlin in support of United Nations Day of Peace.

 

New menu….

Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 16:23 | Category : Cafe
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Hiya. We’ve just printed our new, revised menu. Check it out here…

Danish jazz sensation to perform in Dali

Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 15:02 | Category : Cafe
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We’re very happy to help bring Sinne Eeg’s stunning music to Dali, with the peerless J.Q. on trumpet. Please stay tuned for more details.

Books borrowed and sold, December 2010

Sunday, 16 January 2011, 15:36 | Category : Cafe
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Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
Hot, Flat, and Crowded – Thomas L. Friedman
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – Jeff Kinney
Star Wars: Before the Storm – Michael P. Kube-McDowell
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson (two copies)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet – Colleen McCullough
The Host – Stephenie Meyer
Pillow Talk – Freya North
Paper Doll – Robert B. Parker
Degree of Guilt – Richard North Patterson
The Road Less Travelled – M. Scott Peck
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Gender and the Politics of History – Joan Wallach Scott
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
朋友 – 贾平凹

 

BORROWED

Chronicles – Bob Dylan
Oracle Bones – Peter Hessler
The Tao of Health and Longevity – Da Liu
法国史 – Outils
The Great Blue Yonder – Alex Shearer

Black Dragon Christmas

Sunday, 9 January 2011, 1:24 | Category : Cafe
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Books borrowed and sold, August – November 2010

Wednesday, 8 December 2010, 10:00 | Category : Cafe
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Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
He’s Just Not That Into You – Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
Possession – A.S. Byatt
Hammerfall – C.J. Cherryh
Merde Happens – Stephen Clark
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie (two copies)
The Devil’s Teardrop – Jeffrey Deaver
Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
South East Asia – The Graphic Guide – Mark Elliott
Once Upon the Little Big Horn – Evelyn Sibley Lampman
The Ascent of Money – Niall Ferguson
Watching the English – Kate Fox
The Interpretation of Dreams – Sigmund Freud (two copies)
Civilization and its Discontents – Sigmund Freud
Hot, Flat and Crowded – Thomas Friedman
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder (three copies)
Roll, Jordan, Roll – The World the Slaves Made – Eugene D. Genovese
What the Dog Saw – Malcom Gladwell
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Hungry Ocean – Linda Greenlaw
Death Walked In – Carolyn Hart
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking (two copies)
The Keys of Hell – Jack Higgins
Lost Horizon – James Hilton (two copies)
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The Undiscovered Self – C.G. Jung
The Big Picture – Douglas Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Soren Kierkegaard
Ticktock – Dean Koontz
Into The Wild – Jon Krakauer
One Thing Only – Lois Lang-Sims
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson (five copies)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest – Stieg Larsson
The Switch – Elmore Leonard
Lonely Planet China
Lonely Planet China’s Southwest
Lonely Planet Laos
Lonely Planet Unpacked
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (two copies)
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami (two copies)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Animal Farm – George Orwell (three copies)
1984 – George Orwell
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
The History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
An Equal Music – Vikram Seth
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari – Robin Sharma
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Blood & Money – Thomas Thompson
The Colour Purple – Alice Walker
Chinese Opera – Ian Wedde
Winter Frost – R.D. Wingfield
Deux Rivales – Zhang Xin
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (two copies)
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BORROWED

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (borrowed twice)
Oracle Bones – Peter Hessler
High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
Brrm! Brrm! – Clive James
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss – Alan Judd
No Destination – An Autobiography – Satish Kumar
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest – Stieg Larsson (borrowed twice)
SuperFreakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Tao of Health and Longevity – Da Liu
Holy Cow! – Sarah Macdonald
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Points of View – W. Somerset Maugham
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Forger – Paul Watkins
藏獒 – 杨志军

Paojiu Night

Sunday, 12 September 2010, 3:49 | Category : Cafe, Food & Drink
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Paojiu – Chinese rice spirit or sorghum spirit in which fruit has been soaked for six months. Tastes like mulled wine or sherry…

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18 September 6pm
Try 14 different paojiu!

RMB 50
Includes snacks and free flow paojiu
Tickets available at the cafe, or write to us at blackdragoncafe@gmail.com…

 

 

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Books borrowed and sold, May – July 2010

Thursday, 5 August 2010, 4:06 | Category : Cafe
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Now we’ve got about 1,000 books in stock…

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Up South – Malaika Adero (editor)
Star Wars Champions of the Force – Kevin J. Anderson
Star Wars Jedi Search – Kevin J. Anderson
Star Wars Dark Apprentice – Kevin J. Anderson
Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
The Road to the Rim / The Hard Way Up (Book 1) – A. Bertram Chandler
The Bear and the Dragon – Tom Clancy
Executive Power – Vince Flynn
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
The Hungry Ocean – Linda Greenlaw
The Promised Land – David Hewson
Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
The Call of the Wild & White Fang – Jack London
Lonely Planet South-West China
Lonely Planet Myanmar
Lonely Planet Mongolia
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Atonement – Ian McEwan
On Friendship – Michel de Montaigne
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
Rough Guide to China
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
Dear John – Nicholas Sparks (two copies)
Message in a Bottle – Nicholas Sparks
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72 – Hunter S. Thompson
Miracles and Idolatry – Voltaire
The Lover – Laura Wilson

Borrowed

The Secrets of the Jin-Shei – Alma Alexander
Rushing to Paradise – J.G. Ballard
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Street Boys – Lorenzo Carcaterra
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Diary of an Unknown – Jean Cocteau
The Tao of Health and Longevity – Da Liu
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chronicles, Vol. 1 – Bob Dylan
The Cold Six Thousand – James Ellroy
A Quiet Belief in Angels – R.J. Ellory
Civilization and its Discontents – Sigmund Freud (borrowed three times)
Days Without Number – Robert Goddard
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
A Dictionary of Maqiao – Han Shaogong
Allan Quatermain – H. Rider Haggard
Oracle Bones – Peter Hessler
A Drink Before the War – Dennis Lehane
Bandits – Elmore Leonard
Stick – Elmore Leonard (borrowed twice)
Sidetracked – Henning Mankell
The Fith Woman – Henning Mankell (borrowed twice)
Embers – Sandor Marai
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Redundancy of Courage – Timothy Mo
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje
The Club Dumas – Arturo Perez-Reverte
Off the Deep End – Tony Perrottet
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Treason by the Book – Jonathan D. Spence
Coming of Age – Studs Terkel
Hocus Pocus – Kurt Vonnegut
The Forger – Paul Watkins
Bomb, Book and Compass – Simon Winchester
Oranges are not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Dim Sum of All Things – Kim Wong

Books borrowed and sold, February – April 2010

Monday, 17 May 2010, 0:09 | Category : Cafe
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We have about 800 books in the cafe, and here’s a list of what was borrowed and sold in our first three months…

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Pride and Prejudice (digested bilingual) – Jane Austen
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Michael Chabon
Blow Out – Catherine Coulter
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Vienna
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides Covent Garden
Selected Poems – T.S. Eliot
The Last Camel Died at Noon – Elizabeth Peters
Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
Heart of the Sea – Nora Roberts
The Best Short Works of Mark Twain – Mark Twain

Borrowed

The Stranger – Albert Camus
Persuader – Lee Child
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
The Living – Annie Dillard
The Seven Sisters – Margaret Drabble
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse (borrowed twice)
The Undiscovered Self – C.G.Jung
The Fifth Woman – Henning Mankell
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaatje (borrowed twice)
Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke
Polar Star – Martin Cruz Smith
The Autograph Man – Zadie Smith
The Temple-Goers – Aatish Taseer