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Thursday, 06 August 2009 06:08
Written by Urbanatomy

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So, Cherie Blair, best known as, erm, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making a random appearence in Shanghai on August 16 at JC Mandarin. I say random because it just seems random. It doesn't seem like there are any specific reasons for her to be in China, but hey, why not... And oh yeah, she has a new book out: Speaking For Myself.

So the promoters VINE have thrown in a few other power women for a conflab about "Female careers, female growth, life & emotion, family building, education of next generation and social welfare." All in two hours. Good luck to them. CBN's news anchor Kathy Cui is holding court over Mrs. Blair, Sha Sha (Director partner of McKinsey) and Jane Huang (wife of 'famous' composer Tan Dun)... All of this is in the JC Mandarin from 4pm - 6pm followed by a Wine Salon where you can hang around in the same room as someone who used to sleep in the same room as someone who used to be Prime Minister of somewhere 7,000 miles away. Now that's what I call awesome.

Anyway, should be an interesting afternoon and perhaps an interesting read. Having left 10 Downing Street about a year ago, the book goes into Cherie Blair's thoughts onher husband's time in office, the changing political times she found herself in and her journey to becoming a hugely powerful lawyer in the UK in what is still pretty much a male-controlled law world.

It also skims back to her childhood in Liverpool and the charts the resistance to her being the first working wife of a British Prime Minister. Here's a particularly all-embracing quote from the book:

“My religion and my family are the two fixed planets which give my life meaning. In the end, part of the reason he [Tony]  loves me is my unpredictable character. I am impulsive and he is not. I am the abrasiveness against which he can spark.”

Depends what you call impulsive I suppose.

You can grab hold of tickets by giving a bell to 64053171. They're RMB 380 each (including wine) or you can just pay on the day for RMB 100 more...

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