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Extra! Extra! Chengguan youth, chocolate history, and China's re...

2009-12-04 12:30:00 查看原文

* Gosh they're getting them while they're young - elementary school students in Shaoxing now have a chance to join the Chengguan Youth Special Forces and enact justice on street vendors. [Chinasmack] * Daniel...

Video: Top Floor Circus updates "Shanghai (Doesn't) Welcome You"

2009-12-04 11:30:00 查看原文

Among the songs Shanghai art-punk band Top Floor Circus (顶楼马戏团) performed to a cheering crowd at Mao Livehouse this weekend was an update of their song "Shanghai Welcomes You" (which we giggled about back ...

Mandarin translations of Guardian UK stories gets Yeeyan shut do...

2009-12-04 10:45:00 查看原文

We suppose this was inevitable, but it still irks us. The collaborative experiment between UK newspaper, The Guardian, and crowd-sourced translation website Yeeyan to publish selections of Guardian stories in M...

Foreign teachers over 60 getting kicked out for being old?

2009-12-04 10:00:38 查看原文

We've long known about the racist policies many Chinese schools have in place when choosing English teachers, but - for some reason - it comes as a surprise to find out they're ageist too. Maybe it's all those ...

Google facilitates your Shanghai skyscraper stalking (updated!)

2009-12-04 09:00:00 查看原文

In case you were keeping score, Google three enterprising gentlemen have put together a Google map that allows you to track ongoing skyscraper projects in and around Shanghai. Construction sites are helpfully...

Weekendist: Racy lingerie launch, Lions of Puxi, and the traveli...

2009-12-04 07:30:00 查看原文

It's going to be a sunny December weekend - all the better to be out and about! Definitely check out some of our live music suggestions at night, but just in case you’re feeling geeky/artsy/cultural during the...

Five more to be executed for Xinjiang Riots

2009-12-04 06:30:00 查看原文

On the heels of nine executions last month, five more have been sentenced to death by the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi for crimes committed during the July riots. They were found guilty of killing a po...

Bye bye, 'Obama girl'? Media paid 100K RMB to promote Wang Zifei

2009-12-04 05:30:00 查看原文

The secret is out and her fifteen minutes are up: yesterday, Global Voices and ESWN reported that Wang Zifei (王紫菲), more commonly known as the 'Obama girl' who sat behind the US President when he delivered h...

Reported H1N1 deaths in China suddenly triple

2009-12-04 05:00:00 查看原文

Ruhr oh, while H1N1 might have already hit its peak in the West, it seems like deaths from it are only rising in China. The number of deaths caused by swine flu here have increased sharply over the past few wee...

Daniel Gross barely manages to get hold of chocolate... in Beiji...

2009-12-04 04:00:00 查看原文

Huh. Guess these must be locked away somewhere so Daniel Gross can't find them. Photo by Liv So it seems that Daniel Gross of Slate has finally acknowledged that you can find a chocolate bar in China well,...