Representing Singapore at the Expo: DURIAN STAR
Made in China ad campaign has its faults
Electrolist: Underground/overground clash again
Hotelist: Park Hyatt Shanghai
China's most valuable asset of the year?
- Ever wonder why Zhang Ziyi speaks English so fast and always makes her sentences rhyme?
- ".cn" is the new favorite suffix for web addresses in China. And Chinese consider Google to be the best search engine, although more people still use Baidu. Oh, and China now has 111 million internet users. And 14 percent of youths in Shanghai are addicted to the internet.
- Japan has turned manhole covers into works of art. Not a bad idea.
- Only 40 percent of the illegal coal mines China wanted to close in 2005 ended up getting shut down.
- What can US$24,444 get you in Hangzhou? One Chinese New Year meal. (The price isn't so unlucky when converted to yuan.) Meanwhile, in Shanghai 100 yuan can buy you a "mountainful of monkeys."
- The New Yorker ran a story about the "radical quaintness" of Xintiandi recently -- a few years too late. They even made a Blade Runner reference when describing the Pudong skyline. Radical.
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I particularly enjoyed the New Yorker's assertion that Chinese streets are purely functional and unsuitable for the flaneur or gawker. Had the man ever been here, or had he just looked at the cover of the Lonely Planet guidebook?
I read that article too! I wrote to the New Yorker complaining about it because the man obviously did not do his research. What is with all these hacks who think they can write about this city without actually spending some time here? He was probably paid by Vincent Lo to write it.
"unsuitable for the flaneur"?
I can't think of anywhere more suitable!!! The fact that you don't actually have to take part in it creates the perfect definition of flanuerism.
Oh btw I love Zhang Ziyi.