Shanghai

Taipei beauty

Taiwan writer Pai Hsien-yung's short story The Eternal Snow Beauty has been adapted into an original play, in the Shanghai dialect. In the play, the aging Snow Beauty (Yin Hsueh-yen) looks back on her days as the belle of Shanghai's Paramount ballroom, while she is still the center of attention at upscale mahjong soirees she arranges in her Taipei home.

7:30 pm, May 4-12. Shanghai Culture Square, 597 Fuxing Middle Road. 021-5461-9960

Poetic portraits

Two artists will hold a joint exhibition with paintings featuring portraits of Chinese women in mystical and poetic poses. Wang Xaiojin, who hails from Shandong province, has been exhibiting since 1993. The other artist, Xu Zhigang, is originally from Liaoning province, but is now based in Beijing.

10 am-8 pm, until Jun 20. Rong Gallery, 1F, Sheraton Pudong Hotel, 38 Pujian Road, Pudong New Area. 0137-6408-7294

Group show

The artist group "island6" works in new media and is holding a show titled Body-City-Mechanism. Through interactive video, photography, oil on canvas and sculpture, the artists explore themes of man and cyberspace with humor, irony and concern. The works are based on a project based on Plato's metaphor of the city as a bionic entity of body and soul.

10 am-6 pm, until Jun 28. Studio Rouge, BK 7-109, 50 Moganshan Road, Putuo district. 021-5252-7856

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