Extra! Extra! Lonely Planet, Li Na and WTC

• We all know that you can't buy Lonely Planet China in China, but now are they confiscating the books when people enter the Mainland? Ridiculous. (By the way, if anyone has one of the new books, can you tell us what they said about Shanghaiist? We have heard they mention us in there.)
• Read old books online: Via Virtual China, we discover Photographic Journal: "A collection of photographs taken in cities including Beijing and Shanghai by Alfons von Mumm. Mumm left in Genova July 1900, and arrived in Beijing in October of the same year."
• From TIME: "'The Blogosphere Strikes Back,' China's netizens have become experts at wielding the power of the web to settle personal squabbles. This time, they took on a major tech company—and won"
• We always knew too many Chinese banquets could kill you.
• Protests at Fudan University.
• Those Cheong-Sam dresses look painted on ... because they are.
• Shanghai-born actor Hu Ge was injured in a nasty looking car accident traveling between Hangzhou and Shanghai. One of his female assistants died in the crash. Hu's injuries are not thought to be life threatening ... but his face may not look the same.
• World Trade Center and Miami Vice will arrive in Chinese theaters in December. But will they arrive uncut?
• "The World According to China"
• Can Li Na win the U.S. Open for China?
• Crocodile Hunter: RIP.
• After some behind the scenes mediation from Apple and protests from Reporters Without Borders, Foxconn (the Chinese iPod factory folks) cut a lawsuit against two reporters from 30 million yuan ($3.8 million USD) to just 1 yuan. No word yet if the 1 yuan will be split into 2/3 and 1/3 (originally, one reporter was supposed to pay 20 million yuan and the other 10 million).

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