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- China's police must be really, really good. The nation's legal system jailed 844,717 last year -- and found only 2,162 defendants not guilty. That's more than a 98 percent conviction rate! A Chinese lawyer estimated that some 70 percent of criminal defendants in China go unrepresented.
- American retailer Best Buy will open its first China location in Shanghai's "downtown core" in June.
- Think twice before you buy that antique: You may be "stealing China's cultural heritage."
- Looking for a photo of a "dead fish .... in an oil-covered river in a suburban area of Shanghai"? Here it is.
- What Hollywood can learn from Shanghai's DVD pirates.
- Shanghaiist is likely getting married this year. Not sure if the future wife will go for the naked wedding photos.
- Having trouble with Gmail today? Seems to be a common problem in Shanghai.
- Super Girl Li Yuchun's look -- think 13-year-old boy -- has started a "unisex" trend in China. Not everyone is excited: "Nanjing University Chinese Language and Literature Professor Zhang Guangmang believes that women turning to "unisex" is a trend, but not a good trend. Instead, it is another sign that women are taking the wrong path post liberation. He believes that men and women naturally have different characteristics and should not take the absence of sex differentiation as equality."
- What do Shanghai Eagles have in common with Edmonton Cracker-Cats?
- Hu Ge's internet satire has landed him a job.
- Gong Li is a bad Communist.
- CSR Asia and Danwei have thoughts on China cover stories in TIME and Newsweek.
Photo from Getty Images via The Scotsman.
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I find it irritating that people can make patronizing generalizations such as that made by the Nanjing U prof in your "unisex" blurb, without facing criticism themselves. Mainstream media rarely (never?) makes similar statements about men, expressing "concern" about the collective male mental state. I guess men are too complex and self-sufficient to be lumped into a neat, quantifiable unit. People is people.