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20 Nov 09
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If there's one thing that we at Shanghaiist would like to thank the Net Nanny for, it's... |
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20 Nov 09
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We actually quite like this Shanghai Eat & Drink Guide We were sent Silk Guides: Shanghai Eat & Drink Guide a couple weeks ago, but it took us a little while to get off our lazy butts and actually take a look inside... Which is a shame, because the guide, about a size that would fit handily into a purse if... |
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20 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Swine flu shots, press corps history and the almighty yuan Wow, that's a huge amount: 1.5 million people per day are getting innoculated with the swine flu vaccine. [AP]
This year's Chinese Blogger Conference was held in an ancient cave in Lianzhou, Guangdon. Why? You'll have to watch this video to find out.... |
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20 Nov 09
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Nuclear fallout Beijing: Mao's underground city What's lurking underneath Tiananmen Square? It ain't just rats. In 1969, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Mao commissioned the construction of an underground city, built right under Beijing. Fearing an... |
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20 Nov 09
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Cleaner water coming to Shanghai? Besides all the subways and road renovations, one of the things we can look forward to come Expo time is... cleaner water? According to officials from the local water bureau, the city is about to fulfill a three-year water-purification plan that will... |
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20 Nov 09
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Philanthropist: Rockin' with Roots & Shoots In Shanghaiist's Philanthropist feature, we highlight individuals and groups doing interesting things to make the world a little bit of a better place. This week we talk to one of the organizers of the third annual Rock for Roots & Shoots concert.
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20 Nov 09
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China: Nine nations in one? Anyone who’s been trawling through the China-related web this week will surely have stumbled across the ‘Nine Nations of China’ map that surfaced on Atlantic Monthly. Patrick Chovanec, from Tsinghua University, posted his map... |
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20 Nov 09
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"Haibao is coming" A Shanghai-based English copywriter has discovered some hilarious Chinglish slogans, including a new one for Haibao that explains the Shanghai Expo mascot's consistently happy visage. Since we've previously determined that Haibao is a boy mascot, all we... |
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20 Nov 09
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'Stateless in Shanghai': Nov. 21 and 22 Stateless in Shanghai Cover Shanghai-born Dr. Liliane Willens will be speaking twice this weekend about her newly published book, Stateless in Shanghai at several venues around the city. But first, a word of explanation about what "stateless in Shanghai"... |
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20 Nov 09
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Weekendist: Wig party, pub crawl, art openings and more! Yet another jam-packed weekend hits Shanghai. In case you're looking for something to do that's not related to all the live music choices available this week, we present you with some sweet alternatives. Ranging from a wig party, to a pub crawl, to yet... |
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20 Nov 09
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Thanksgiving turkey conundrum? The solution: Taobao "I think we're going to need to have chicken for Thanksgiving this year," our roommate told us, faces twisted in dismay. A Thanksgiving traditionalist, she had been adamant about cooking the meal at home for friends rather than head out to any of the many... |
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20 Nov 09
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Shanghaiist Scrabble: Coming this Tuesday Hey folks, remember our last Shanghaiist Scrabble night? You can win 250RMB of Cotton's vouchers and the title of Shanghaiist Scrabble champion if you come to the next one we're hosting: Tuesday, November 24th. Pit your vocab and scrabble strategy against... |
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20 Nov 09
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Around Shanghai: Globetrotters hit Shanghai, power overload around city, more on Obama Get lost Yao Ming. Alright, stick around. But make room for the Harlem Globetrotters, playing at Yuanshen Sports Center on December 12! If you're not b-ball buff some quick stats: the Globetrotters were formed in 1926, have lost only two games between... |
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19 Nov 09
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62 year old Guangzhou man is New York City's Sad Panda tweetmeme_url = 'http://shanghaiist.com/2009/11/19/nyc-sad-panda-guangzhou.php';
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Since around March this year, a sad-looking panda has been spotted roaming the streets of New York... |
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19 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Screwing over Guinea, climate change collaborations and poor ol' Microsoft You could just call it good business, or you could call it a complete disregard for humanity - China's $7 billion resource deal with the African nation of Guinea (currently under a regime without legitimacy) has basically screwed Guineans out of their... |
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19 Nov 09
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Zhang Shuai and the future of Chinese tennis Zhang Shuai awaits the serve at the China Tennis Grand Prix in Nanjing, November 2009 Last weekend, the finals of the China Tennis Grand Prix took place in Nanjing. It was the culmination of a week-long event, which was actually the culmination of several... |
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19 Nov 09
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Electrolist: Berlin 8-bit retroblaster tonight Electrolist, by Shanghai Ultra of the VOID crew, gives the lowdown on the Shanghai electronic music scene each week, with picks, tips, news, and other rumors.
Thanks to the Phreaktion Crew, Roni Size and his sidekick Dynamite MC packed a white-hot... |
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19 Nov 09
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Limits set to control crowds on Chongming Last month, while we were still looking forward to the October 31st opening of the bridge and tunnel linking Pudong and Chongming, we professed excitement at the prospect of easier access to the island's famous rice wine and hairy crabs, but we also... |
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19 Nov 09
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Interview: Rich Medina funks up the Shelter Rich Medina, a veteran of the New York music scene, is tearing up the Shelter on Friday night - a party you definitely don't want to miss.
Who is he? Besides being the resident DJ at New York's super-hip APT club on Wednesday night, he also holds it... |
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19 Nov 09
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Snowy morning in Shanghai, or so they say Shanghai Daily tells us that earlier this morning, snow sprinkled Shanghai for the first time this winter... just days later than they thought it would. We must've missed it, since by the time we woke up and got out in the street, there was nothing for us... |
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19 Nov 09
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Nanfang Daily: (Foreign) girls gone wild! Oh god: we're not really sure how this is newsworthy, but apparently Nanfang Daily decided that a bunch of pictures of drunken foreign girls awkwardly passed out was good enough to at least make into a photo gallery. The pictures were taken from popular... |
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19 Nov 09
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China's military website attacked 230 million times in first month These statistics are mind numbing: China's new military website, http://www.mod.gov.cn, was attacked 230 million times by hackers in the first month of operation. The site, which is the government's last attempt at providing a level of transparency... |
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19 Nov 09
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Barbie Megastore proves to be tough sell Despite getting a ton of press when it first opened back in March, it looks like the Barbie Megastore on Huai Hai Road just hasn't been as popular as Mattel had hoped. The six-floor retailing monolith has been unable to make any of its "astronomical"... |
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19 Nov 09
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Man-made swine-bird flu supervirus: What's French for "apocalypse"? Since up until now, we've only seen the third case of serious swine flu emerged in Shanghai, you may well be wondering, “how bad could all this hullabaloo get anyway?"
Pretty bad. Do you remember Avian Flu? The one that had a high mortality rate... |
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19 Nov 09
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Midweek Music Preview: Free tickets to Au Revoir Simone, Gaslamp Killer Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from now to Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!)
You know what's even better than the live music acts... |
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19 Nov 09
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Obama in China: News Roundup Well, President Obama's first trip to China is now officially over. A lot of things happened, a lot of people talked about it, but nothing too groundbreaking occurred. Obama seemed to have a good trip: he visited famous Chinese landmarks, met with his... |
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19 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Crinkled alleys Photo by notti.at
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18 Nov 09
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A list of 50 blogs about China We're always on the lookout for lists of blogs to read and this site has done us the favor of aggregating 50 of the best blogs about China. We're on it (of course), but so are some of our perennial favorites (ChinaSMACK, Imagethief, Far West China), as... |
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18 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Obama eggs, 50cents fight back and other news Haha, look - it's an Obama egg, made by egg artist Kang Yongguo in Liaoning Province. [Obamafoodorama]
Tao Weishuo (陶韡烁) defends a statement he made: "I strongly disagree with what Obama saida bout the Internet firewall... I think all Chinese peopl... |
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18 Nov 09
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Shanghai records serious swine flu patient No. 3 Shanghai has now recorded its third serious case of swine flu - a 43-year-old local man who is now in stable condition at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center. According to Shanghai Daily, the city has detected 1,538 cases of H1N1 since the first... |
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18 Nov 09
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New Shanghai metro subway cars Take a look at these suckers: these are going to be the newest subway trains to grace Shanghai's rails. Set to show up on the 7 line (whenever that opens), it's elegant curves, orange highlights and sexy golden dragon decor will be... |
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18 Nov 09
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Video: The Enlivened Shanghai jump rope skippers Did you know Shanghai had a jump rope enthusiast team? Neither did we until we stumbled upon this pretty awesome video on Youku. While we could've done without the silly soundtrack, we were mighty impressed by their jump roping shenanigans. Watch these... |
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18 Nov 09
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Foreignness in Shanghai: Tales from an outsider As foreigners in Shanghai, we understand the difficulties with assimilation: if you're not from Shanghai you are different, no matter where you're from. In all honesty, though, it may be easier to be a foreigner in Shanghai than it is to be an waidiren,... |
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18 Nov 09
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Obama visits the forbidden city Alright, we don't really have anything to say about this, we just love the picture. How can you not? It's one of the most beautiful places in China, and certainly one of the most haunting in the world (though, like Obama's trip, it's been hollowed out and... |
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18 Nov 09
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Around Shanghai: Pollution art, Turkey Day, and Bar Rouge blows out candles A few weeks ago the metro stop at People's Square was turned from a bastion of commercialism into a moving display of environmental art. Check out the large installation, which featured work designed for the China Environmental Protection Foundation, and... |
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18 Nov 09
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Google Translate: Now with Pinyin Useful new feature alert: Google's Translate service now displays Pinyin results when translating into Chinese characters - which makes it that much easier for us to figure out what the heck a word is after we've changed it over from English. If you want... |
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18 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Poor lil' princess Photo by dbmboise
More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically... |
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18 Nov 09
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Touchmedia launches interactive taxi maps Touchmedia recently unveiled a piece of new technology that will make the lives of Shanghai taxi users - and taxi drivers - a little less stressful.
If you’ve been in Shanghai for a while, you have undoubtedly seen this horrendously awkward scene... |
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17 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Obama, Obama, Obama... and some other news too Who knew that one simple gesture, like holding your own umbrella, could mean so much? Obama made an awesome first impression by shielding himself from rain on Sunday evening, thanks partially to the habit of Chinese officials usually having a flukey to... |
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17 Nov 09
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Shanghai puts out a lot of (CO2) gas While we've already heard many times over how much carbon dioxide emissions China produces, but we were still shocked by how much comes just from Shanghai. Apparently, our city throws out 5,400 tons of CO2 equivalent a year - as much carbon as two Sydneys... |
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17 Nov 09
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Awesome interview of the day: Zhang Yifang, physics professor and UFO enthusiast Photo from Yunnan Daily We've always found China's obsession with UFOs highly amusing, so this interview on GoKuming particularly struck our fancy. The site spoke to Zhang Yifang 张一方), founder and former director of the Kunming UFO Research Associ... |
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17 Nov 09
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2012: Lessons on how to be a Chinese box-office hit 2012, the new apocalyptic movie by director Roland Emmerich, opened this weekend in Shanghai to smashing box office records, showing that Hollywood's discovered at least one way its blockbusters can make a killing in China - by pandering to the Chinese.... |
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17 Nov 09
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World Trivia Night 2009 is this Thursday We mentioned it briefly in this week's Pencil It In, but figured it bears repeating since it combines two things we love: charity and trivia. This Thursday, the Rotaract Club Shanghai and Hilton Shanghai are hosting a World Trivia Night with 100% of the... |
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17 Nov 09
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Video of the day: Beached Bryde's whales Sad: a Bryde's (pronounced Brooda) whale was found beached this week on Hengsha island. Rescue workers tried for a good two days to rescue the poor thing and return it to the sea, but bad weather conditions made saving the whale impossible. All things... |
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17 Nov 09
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Leonid meteor shower today Stargazers rejoice: the yearly Leonid meteor shower will be visible in Shanghai, starting at 4PM and ending early Thursday morning. It will be the strongest Leonid shower since 2001, with about three hundred visible falling stars per hour. Remember your... |
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17 Nov 09
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Didn't get to meet the President? Go to Madame Tussauds President Obama's come and (almost) gone by now and despite our proximity to the Portman Ritz Carlton, we're pretty sure we'll never get a chance to actually get a picture with the leader of the free world... or will we?
To commemorate his coming, Madame... |
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17 Nov 09
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Obama's town hall: News roundup Now that we've had a good night's rest, we can sit back and reflect on the general meaning and importance, both literal and symbolic, of President Obama's town hall in Shanghai yesterday. We've come to a sort of peace with the entire affair: yes, it was... |
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17 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Follow the yellow lit road Photo by Michele Travierso
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16 Nov 09
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Xinjiang update: Still dealing with H1N1 quarantines, internet blackouts Xinjiang has been through a lot of political and social trauma in the last couple of months, what with the riots in July, syringe attacks in September, the executions that followed, continuous H1N1 scares, and an internet blackout throughout the province.... |
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16 Nov 09
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Obama's Town Hall: Recap Since our live blogging of Obama's town hall meeting with Chinese students earlier today, a few interesting things have come to light.
First of all, it seems that many of the students that were in the audience were actually shanzai plants. Turns out one... |
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