Around Shanghai: Is that a Fake Pentagon?

According to this website, Shanghai's planning on building a shanzhai version of the U.S. Pentagon before the World Expo. Like most weirdly shaped complexes in China, It'll be a shopping mall. [非常日報]
People's Daily looks at the "Bund Origin" program and reflects on the Huangpu area's last 60 years. [People's Daily Online]
Adam Minter interviews a migrant worker who's working to clean up Shanghai all spiffy like by refreshing the paint on windows. [Shanghai Scrap]
Malcolm Moore takes a look behind Chinatown, the burlesque club that keeps on running into trouble with the Shanghai authorities. Will it have more shows after the most recent shut down? It's not mentioned. [Telegraph]
Overpriced chocolates, where have you been all our lives? Godiva has opened up its first chocolate shop in Shanghai over at Grand Gateway. [Shanghai Talk]

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