var ever_com_entries = [{"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/22/attack_on_an_american_volunteer.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 22, 2008","excerpt":"READ THIS: Volunteer in China: \"I was not in fact attacked by a mob\" Editor's note: This post has been updated. Details after the jump. Here's an email we received from a volunteer teacher from an Ivy League university volunteer programme in Hunan Province (who shall remain unnamed to protect the identities of everyone involved) — a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou. The matter has been...","date":"April 22, 2008  8:55 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":107,"title":"Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan: UPDATED","id":158059,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/20/buy_your_own_i_love_tibet_tshirt.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"Apr 20, 2008","excerpt":"By Benjamin Cohen \"I Love Tibet, but I Hate the Dalai Lama,\" and \"F*** CNN, Say No to Riots!\" are two of the nine nationalist t-shirts for sale on Taobao.com (english version). The shirt's creators state, \"Tibet was, is and always will be apart of China!\" We're pretty sure they mean \"a part\" (h/t to Megan Shank). But semantics aside, these shirts show growing nationalist sentiment that first gained ground with MSN messenger displays of...","date":"April 20, 2008  7:00 PM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":92,"title":"Buy your own \"I Love Tibet\" T-shirt on Taobao","id":157506,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/12/23/just_say_noto_c.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_peijin","displaydate":"Dec 23, 2006","excerpt":"We learned from the Shanghai Daily that 10 Chinese PhD students started a petition urging people to boycott Christmas: The petition, published online and signed by 10 PhD students from top universities in China, triggered intense Internet discussion and polling, in which tens of thousands of people urged a boycott of Christmas festivities. Later on in the article, it says that most Chinese people don't know what the true meaning of Christmas is, and that...","date":"December 23, 2006  5:29 PM","author":"Peijin Chen","comments":82,"title":"Just say no ... to Christmas","id":87559,"votes":5}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/11/amazingly_huge.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Aug 11, 2007","excerpt":"We found the following email in our mailbox the other day. Apparently it's been making the rounds on the Chinese-language internet:花都芙蓉璋水库，每年都有好几个人莫明溺水死亡。到最近有个高官的子弟与朋友一起到水库游水溺死亡，才发现惊天秘密！ Each year, a few people will be drowned mysteriously in Huadu's Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently when the brother of a certain official went swimming in the reservoir with his friend and were drowned that the secret was unravelled! 竟然是一条有三米多长，头有一米多宽的吃人唐蚤！宰割唐蚤后，惊人的发现：在其肚中竟然有人的骸骨！ It's a 3 metre long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1...","date":"August 11, 2007  3:03 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":80,"title":"Giant man-eating catfish found in Guangdong reservoir?","id":119421,"votes":32}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/11/20/30_year_old_rmb3_million_foreign_do.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Nov 20, 2008","excerpt":"Adam Schokora of Danwei points us to this audio recording of a \"disgruntled customer lecturing a telephone operator at a well-known, city-wide food delivery company based in Shanghai\". Do a bit of research and you'll find there's only one food delivery company in town that delivers Blue Frog and it happens to be an advertiser on Shanghaiist. Does the voice of this douchebag sound familiar to any of you readers out there? We say unleash...","date":"November 20, 2008  5:55 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":77,"title":"Listen: \"RMB 3 million foreign douchebag in Shanghai\"","id":193912,"votes":4}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/05/21/american_guy_le.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_petec","displaydate":"May 21, 2007","excerpt":"Like Donna Summer once said, \"He works hard for the money, so hard for it honey.\" All right, Donna was actually referring to a woman. But the message of Donna's 1983 hit could also be applied to an American guy living in Fuzhou named Benjamin Ross. Perhaps you are thinking, \"Who cares? There are 57,000+ foreigners working in Shanghai alone.\" Ben's story is unique because, since the beginning of May, he's been working at a...","date":"May 21, 2007  6:59 PM","author":"Pete Chorba","comments":76,"title":"American guy learns about hard work, Chinese style","id":107852,"votes":8}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/04/18/and_so_the_kill.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Apr 18, 2007","excerpt":"For most of the day yesterday, we here at Shanghaiist were wondering if we should post anything about the horrific mass shooting at Virginia Tech, a university in the United States. On the surface, the answer should have been an easy \"no\" — Blacksburg, Virginia, is nowhere near Shanghai. But news started to trickle in about the suspected killer: He was Asian, possibly Chinese. And then, yesterday morning, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed posted a...","date":"April 18, 2007  09:12 AM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":75,"title":"And so the Virginia Tech killer wasn't from China after all","id":103057,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/16/nationalist-netizens-on-msn-messenger-heart-china.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 16, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/L_China_Nationalists_on_MSN_Messenger_heart_China'; Like Wang Jianshuo and Eric Hu, we were pretty surprised to see that this is what our MSN messenger looks like at the moment. Says Eric:Over half of my Chinese-Chinese friends on MSN have put the badge on their contact names, in defiance of all the anti-China bullying that they’re undoubtedly reading about in the Chinese newspapers, watching on the Chinese news, and scouring over on the hundreds of blogs and...","date":"April 16, 2008  3:20 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":75,"title":"(L) China: Nationalist netizens on MSN Messenger \"heart\" China","id":157131,"votes":14}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/11/15/deborah_fallows.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_peijin","displaydate":"Nov 15, 2006","excerpt":"We're not sure why Deborah Fallows is in Shanghai, or why she is writing a week-long journal for Slate. The first entry, which came out on the 13th, is the typical breathless \"wow, I'm in this crazy futuristic metropolis in China and people assail me all the time with stuff to buy.\" We learned of this journal from the blog of Jane Dark, who analyzes Fallows' first entry from the standpoint of Marxist critical theory,...","date":"November 15, 2006  3:46 PM","author":"Peijin Chen","comments":68,"title":"Deborah Fallows in Shanghai","id":82615,"votes":8}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/22/opinionist_lhas.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Mata_hari","displaydate":"Mar 22, 2008","excerpt":"NOTE: The opinions expressed in \"Opinionist\" columns are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Shanghaiist. After logging on to various networking sites and instant messengers this week I started to see a similar sentence attached to a number of handles and headers. They were all some variation on the following idea: China is my adopted country, I love it here but recent events in Tibet are giving me a...","date":"March 22, 2008  12:10 AM","author":"Andy Best","comments":68,"title":"Opinionist: Lhasa should make us feel for all suffering","id":153059,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/12/earthquake-hits-wenchuan-sichuan.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"May 12, 2008","excerpt":"By Kenneth Tan, Dan Washburn, Pete Chorba, and Derek Sandhaus digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Huge_earthquake_jolts_Sichuan_tremors_felt_across_China'; A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:48 Beijing Time and tremors were felt (by our MSN friends) as far as Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing. This picture on the right shows the aftermath of the IT department of the Sichuan Bureau of the Xinhua...","date":"May 12, 2008  5:35 PM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":68,"title":"Breaking News: Earthquake 7.9 on Richter scale hits Sichuan, tremors felt across China, more than 10,000 dead, thousands more trapped under rubble - UPDATED OFTEN","id":161246,"votes":47}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/02/08/chinese_footbal.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_jay","displaydate":"Feb 08, 2007","excerpt":"Yet another black eye (and apparently also a broken jaw and an unconscious player) to China’s national football team, this one happened yesterday in London and featured an all out brawl between the Chinese team and the Queens Park Rangers, a division one professional team in the English football system. IHT reports: The fight Wednesday at Queens Park Rangers' training facility forced the match to be abandoned with Queens Park winning 2-1 about 15 minutes...","date":"February 08, 2007  8:25 PM","author":"Jay Sheng","comments":66,"title":"Chinese football team goes to UK, fights break out everywhere","id":93510,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/14/nationalist_netizens_boycott_carrefour_and_other_french_brands.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 14, 2008","excerpt":"First it was Coca-Cola. Now Carrefour, too, has been hit. The video on the right shows a confrontation between a (lone?) woman protestor outside Carrefour in Beijing and a PSB officer (h/t to PandaPassport). Jason Leow of the Wall Street Journal writes:Some Chinese citizens, angry over foreign criticism of their country's policies in Tibet, are calling for boycotts of at least two European retailers for purportedly supporting the Dalai Lama, the latest sign of growing...","date":"April 14, 2008  12:56 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":62,"title":"Nationalist netizens call for boycott of Carrefour and other French brands","id":156775,"votes":5}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/05/11/has_tongren_lu.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_timb","displaydate":"May 11, 2007","excerpt":"Shanghaiist has been hearing a lot of rumours of late of dodgy, well, more dodgy behaviour along the Tongren Lu bar strip south of Nanjing Road. This morning, Shanghaiist was forwarded an email by our golf-enthralled editor via one of his trusted acquaintances. The email contained details regarding the assault of two expat males on Tongren Lu this week. Peter was beat up pretty badly and left unconscious in the alley/parking lot behind the bars....","date":"May 11, 2007  6:13 PM","author":"Tim Beckenham","comments":60,"title":"Still seedy, but has Tongren Lu turned savage?","id":106504,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/22/man_with_worlds.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Aug 22, 2007","excerpt":"DUE TO ITS SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC NATURE, THE PHOTO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORY APPEARS AFTER THE JUMP. 24 year old macrodactyly patient Liu Hua from Jiangsu, the man with the world's largest hand (Pic after the jump: NOT for the faint-hearted!!), has arrived at the Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital for radical plastic surgery. He was born with a left thumb, index and middle finger much larger than normal, which grew dramatically together with his arm...","date":"August 22, 2007  5:11 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":58,"title":"Man with world's largest hand in Shanghai for surgery","id":120905,"votes":31}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/08/31/we_gonna_go_to.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_peijin","displaydate":"Aug 31, 2006","excerpt":"Do you remember what you were doing on May 18? Let us help you: You were reading a Shanghaiist post about Sex and Shanghai, a blog started by one \"Chinabounder\", a British teacher living in Shanghai. In this blog Chinabounder wrote about his sexcapades, as well as scattered thoughts about sex and sexuality in China, Mao, the Cultural Revolution, and China in general. We wish we could show you some of what he wrote, but...","date":"August 31, 2006  2:12 PM","author":"Peijin Chen","comments":56,"title":"Shanghai + Sex + Blog + Controversy = Book Deal?","id":64391,"votes":5}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/15/spielberg_boyco.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#ISpyShanghai.com","displaydate":"Feb 15, 2008","excerpt":"Steven Spielberg's decision to withdraw from arranging the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics caused press around the world (except for China) to rub their hands with glee this week at the prospect of China's dirty laundry being flown from the flagpoles of Beijing. Citing China's tacit support of genocide in Darfur, the director claimed that his conscience no longer allowed him to continue business as usual, and that the hosts \"should be...","date":"February 15, 2008  6:55 PM","author":"James Creegan","comments":56,"title":"Spielberg boycotts Beijing (Gebrselassie, too?)","id":147454,"votes":2}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/09/06/chinese_men_set_their_eyes_on_weste.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_thalia","displaydate":"Sep 06, 2008","excerpt":"Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place where \"in 20 years only one student made it into Tsinghua or Peking University.\" He managed to test into a...","date":"September 06, 2008  03:12 AM","author":"Thalia Kwok","comments":56,"title":"Chinese men set their eyes on Western women","id":180571,"votes":21}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/10/terrorism_olympics_xinjiang_crackdown.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sandhaus","displaydate":"Mar 10, 2008","excerpt":"As a country that has largely distanced itself from the clusterf*ck we call 'The International War on Terror' back in America, China has generally been considered one of the safer places in the world in terms of not getting blown up. While we hope that this doesn't change any time soon, recent developments have given us some cause for concern. It all started earlier this week when a man strapped with explosives boarded an Australian...","date":"March 10, 2008  12:02 AM","author":"Derek Sandhaus","comments":53,"title":"Terrorism, the Olympics, and the Xinjiang crackdown","id":150974,"votes":3}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2005/12/06/spare_the_anima.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_zat","displaydate":"Dec 06, 2005","excerpt":"Shanghaiist is in a fury. No, not because of the freezing weather, but because of a recent thread in a pet website we frequent. It seems that a sick, twisted Fudan University student adopted and tortured more than 20 kittens since September, according to an online bulletin board (in Chinese). The student, who went by the online monicker \"YuhZLL,\" had been trolling the animal section of the Fudan University BBS looking for kittens to adopt....","date":"December 06, 2005  6:36 PM","author":"Zat Liu","comments":52,"title":"Fudan University kitten torturer may get off unpunished","id":38108,"votes":0}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/10/13/aric_queen_shanghai_exile.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Oct 13, 2008","excerpt":"Some of you will remember him for his messy hair, and others will remember him for his tight ass, but Aric Queen is back, this time with a hairband. The former City Weekend nightlife columnist, one time Shanghaiist contributor and serial podcaster found himself wanted by the police for a series of videos that he had been filing for Current TV under the name Shanghai Diaries (not to be confused with Dan Washburn's 2002 blog...","date":"October 13, 2008  08:00 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":52,"title":"Aric Queen to tell the story of his exile from Shanghai","id":186524,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2005/11/29/post_4.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Nov 29, 2005","excerpt":"Not that we were begging for yet another past-their-prime pop star to sing for us, but former Wings frontman Paul McCartney has made it very clear: He will not be playing any gigs in Shanghai -- or anywhere else in China -- any time soon. Why? Because people abuse animals in China, and government officials don't seem to care. McCartney announced his China boycott after seeing footage of dogs and cats being tortured and killed...","date":"November 29, 2005  4:45 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":51,"title":"Paul McCartney's hairy problem with China","id":38079,"votes":0}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/24/volunteer_in_ch.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Apr 24, 2008","excerpt":"Following up on our previous post entitled \"Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan,\" we were contacted today by James Galvin, the unnamed American volunteer mentioned in the story which has now gone on to receive coverage by the Associated Press. In his email, Galvin provided his first-hand account of the alleged incident outside a Carrefour Sunday night in Hunan Province. He feels the story has gotten blown out of proportion....","date":"April 24, 2008  3:26 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":51,"title":"Volunteer in China: \"I was not in fact attacked by a mob\"","id":158425,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/05/edison_chen_bob.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 05, 2008","excerpt":"RELEASE OF PICTURES OF HONG KONG STARS IN THE NUDE IN VARIOUS COMPROMISING SITUATIONS SETS TONGUES WAGGING ACROSS ASIA WARNING: Images after the jump are NOT safe for work (unless you happen to be a blogger working from home) Hong Kong celebrities Edison Chen (陈冠希), Bobo Chan (陈文媛), Gillian Chung (钟欣桐) and Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝) are currently embroiled in an embarrassing sex photo scandal that has whipped up a storm in the territory and the...","date":"February 05, 2008  2:00 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":48,"title":"Edison Chen, Bobo Chan, Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung embroiled in Hong Kong's biggest sex photo scandal ever","id":145654,"votes":280}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/07/24/city_diner_a_gr_1.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_ryanb","displaydate":"Jul 24, 2006","excerpt":"Shanghaiist wants to like City Diner. We really do! The food, when it comes, is excellent—miles ahead of Moon River, and just like we would eat at home. The coffee, if it ever arrives, is perfect—just like we would get at our neighborhood café, and it even arrives with warm milk! But ... In the months since City Diner has opened, again and again, the service has been so slow, the managers so rude, and...","date":"July 24, 2006  09:26 AM","author":"Ryan Barrett","comments":48,"title":"City Diner:  A great place, consistently disappointing","id":59920,"votes":7}, ];
var ever_fav_entries=[{"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/05/edison_chen_bob.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 05, 2008","excerpt":"RELEASE OF PICTURES OF HONG KONG STARS IN THE NUDE IN VARIOUS COMPROMISING SITUATIONS SETS TONGUES WAGGING ACROSS ASIA WARNING: Images after the jump are NOT safe for work (unless you happen to be a blogger working from home) Hong Kong celebrities Edison Chen (陈冠希), Bobo Chan (陈文媛), Gillian Chung (钟欣桐) and Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝) are currently embroiled in an embarrassing sex photo scandal that has whipped up a storm in the territory and the...","date":"February 05, 2008  2:00 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":48,"title":"Edison Chen, Bobo Chan, Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung embroiled in Hong Kong's biggest sex photo scandal ever","id":145654,"votes":280}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/07/the_edison_chen.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 07, 2008","excerpt":"For Part 1 of this story, click HERE. Shanghaiist is hyperventilating. Just when we thought the worst was over, a new set of pics have surfaced. After looking through the pictures, we had to take a while to recover from the massive nasal haemorrhage we suffered before we could calm down ourselves enough to put this story together (oh how very self-sacrificial!). The surfacing of the new pictures are an embarrassment to the Hong Kong...","date":"February 07, 2008  09:12 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":29,"title":"The Edison Chen sex scandal rages on with more pictures released by mystery man","id":146048,"votes":120}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/12/jolin_tsai_magg.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 12, 2008","excerpt":"So much has happened since our last post on the Edison Chen photo scandal that it is about time we updated you! First, the Edison Chen saga has caught the attention of CNN. The Chinese-speaking world has never been as enraptured in a scandal as this, and its scale and magnitude is threatening to make Paris Hilton look very passé. Kristie Lu Stout reports: Yet more female celebrities have been sucked into the scandal with...","date":"February 12, 2008  4:13 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":16,"title":"Jolin Tsai, Maggie Q, Vincey Yeung sucked into Edison Chen scandal; Gillian Chung admits involvement","id":146839,"votes":93}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/12/earthquake-hits-wenchuan-sichuan.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"May 12, 2008","excerpt":"By Kenneth Tan, Dan Washburn, Pete Chorba, and Derek Sandhaus digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Huge_earthquake_jolts_Sichuan_tremors_felt_across_China'; A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:48 Beijing Time and tremors were felt (by our MSN friends) as far as Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing. This picture on the right shows the aftermath of the IT department of the Sichuan Bureau of the Xinhua...","date":"May 12, 2008  5:35 PM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":68,"title":"Breaking News: Earthquake 7.9 on Richter scale hits Sichuan, tremors felt across China, more than 10,000 dead, thousands more trapped under rubble - UPDATED OFTEN","id":161246,"votes":47}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/15/17yearold_chinese_girl_beaten_and_r.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_julien","displaydate":"Jul 15, 2008","excerpt":"From aujourdhuilachine.com: The Chinese web is astir with the news of a video showing a 17-year-old girl being repeatedly beaten by a group of girls and raped by four boys. A year after the actual events, a daily Chinese newspaper relates the story. On July, 3rd, a Mr Xiong contacts the Chinese daily newssite nndaily.com and tells them about the video: \"I hope you will look into that.\" A journalist watches the video, showing a...","date":"July 15, 2008  06:00 AM","author":"Julien Bertrand","comments":3,"title":"17-year-old Chinese girl beaten and raped; Video on Chinese web","id":171341,"votes":45}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/11/18/kappa_girl_fired_for_sex_video.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Nov 18, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/Kappa_Girl_sex_scandal_in_Shanghai_China'; UPDATE: 'Kappa Girl' detained by Shanghai police! A 12 minute long sex video of a female employee working at the Kappa store in the east building of the Shanghai No.1 Department Store on Nanjing Lu has recently been spreading like wildfire on the Chinese internet via Bittorrent and the Chinese peer-to-peer application Xunlei, catapulting the search term 'Kappa女' (or \"Kappa Girl\") into one of the top ten search terms on Google...","date":"November 18, 2008  08:00 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":11,"title":"'Kappa Girl' fired for sex video","id":193368,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/11/amazingly_huge.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Aug 11, 2007","excerpt":"We found the following email in our mailbox the other day. Apparently it's been making the rounds on the Chinese-language internet:花都芙蓉璋水库，每年都有好几个人莫明溺水死亡。到最近有个高官的子弟与朋友一起到水库游水溺死亡，才发现惊天秘密！ Each year, a few people will be drowned mysteriously in Huadu's Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently when the brother of a certain official went swimming in the reservoir with his friend and were drowned that the secret was unravelled! 竟然是一条有三米多长，头有一米多宽的吃人唐蚤！宰割唐蚤后，惊人的发现：在其肚中竟然有人的骸骨！ It's a 3 metre long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1...","date":"August 11, 2007  3:03 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":80,"title":"Giant man-eating catfish found in Guangdong reservoir?","id":119421,"votes":32}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/08/22/man_with_worlds.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Aug 22, 2007","excerpt":"DUE TO ITS SOMEWHAT GRAPHIC NATURE, THE PHOTO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORY APPEARS AFTER THE JUMP. 24 year old macrodactyly patient Liu Hua from Jiangsu, the man with the world's largest hand (Pic after the jump: NOT for the faint-hearted!!), has arrived at the Shanghai No. 9 People's Hospital for radical plastic surgery. He was born with a left thumb, index and middle finger much larger than normal, which grew dramatically together with his arm...","date":"August 22, 2007  5:11 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":58,"title":"Man with world's largest hand in Shanghai for surgery","id":120905,"votes":31}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/07/11/you_know_what_y.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_zat","displaydate":"Jul 11, 2006","excerpt":"Xinhuanet (news in Chinese) and Shanghai Daily (for non-Chinese readers) report on the bizarre Beijing tale of a two foreigners and their overprotective Chinese interpreter who fought off eight guys who apparently gawked at his clients too long. Those rude guys not only stared at the blond, mustached foreigners, but then they refused to apologize for it! In the Shanghai Daily story, according to a relative of one of those hooligans, that was when the...","date":"July 11, 2006  5:15 PM","author":"Zat Liu","comments":4,"title":"The toughest motherf*cking interpreter in China","id":58420,"votes":29}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/05/19/is_shanghai_the.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"May 19, 2007","excerpt":"We honestly have no idea (really, honey[1], we don't), but some guy named Professor Goya recently had this to say to a reporter for Japan's Shukan Taishu: Right now, Shanghai is the hottest spot in Asia -- believe it. It's got those famous karaoke clubs with hostesses, massage parlors and erotic baths. It's evolved beyond anything we Japanese can imagine. Beyond anything the Japanese can imagine? Really? We didn't think that was possible. Anyway, the...","date":"May 19, 2007  4:49 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":6,"title":"Is Shanghai the sex capital of the world?","id":107699,"votes":25}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/26/sharon_stone_on.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"May 26, 2008","excerpt":"Has Sharon Stone been drinking too much lately? You be the judge. Here's what she said on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival when asked about the earthquake that has devastated the Sichuan Province:Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been...","date":"May 26, 2008  10:26 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":42,"title":"Sharon Stone on the Sichuan earthquake and karma; Zhang Ziyi pissed off","id":163456,"votes":24}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/01/14/where_to_get_a.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_nickw","displaydate":"Jan 14, 2006","excerpt":"Oh sure, Shanghaiist goes to the red light \"hairdressers\" for a nice long wank just as much as the next guy (as long as the next guy has never been once), but we also like experiencing what you \"norms\" have at the massage parlours of Shanghai -- a massage. We have a new favourite place. At the north east corner of Changle Lu and Shaanxi Lu, behind several medium sized trees is a set of...","date":"January 14, 2006  4:54 PM","author":"Nick W","comments":3,"title":"Where to get a great massage in Shanghai","id":38214,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/09/03/china_home_to_t.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Sep 03, 2007","excerpt":"Many moons ago, we had a conversation with a Chinese colleague that went something along the lines of the following:同事：你是基督徒吗？ 我：不是很好的基督徒，不是很虔诚的基督徒，不过应该还算基督徒吧。 同事：哈哈，明白了。我不是很好的共产党员，也不是很坏，但是也许已经不能算共产党员了。我有三年没有交党费了，而且一直不去参加会议，应该已经被除名了。 Colleague: Are you a Christian? Me: Uhhhhmmmm.... Not a very good one, not a very devout one, but yes I guess you could still say I'm one? Colleague: Haha, I understand. I'm not a very good CCP member, and not a very bad one either, but you probably can't say I'm a member...","date":"September 03, 2007  6:57 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":13,"title":"China home to the world's largest Christian population?","id":122415,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/22/attack_on_an_american_volunteer.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 22, 2008","excerpt":"READ THIS: Volunteer in China: \"I was not in fact attacked by a mob\" Editor's note: This post has been updated. Details after the jump. Here's an email we received from a volunteer teacher from an Ivy League university volunteer programme in Hunan Province (who shall remain unnamed to protect the identities of everyone involved) — a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou. The matter has been...","date":"April 22, 2008  8:55 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":107,"title":"Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan: UPDATED","id":158059,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/18/the_racist_games.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dedric","displaydate":"Jul 18, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/olympics/Report_Beijing_bars_told_to_ban_black_people_during_Olympic';In a couple of weeks Beijing will turn into a party town and Sanlitun is predicted to be the epicenter of the Olympic night events. The South China Morning Post has however reported that the bar owners in the area were asked to refuse service to black patrons. The article reports: Bar owners near the Workers' Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign...","date":"July 18, 2008  3:08 PM","author":"Dedric Lam","comments":24,"title":"Report: Beijing bars told to ban black people during Olympics","id":172086,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/10/19/the_most_fashio.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Oct 19, 2006","excerpt":"Micah spotted something a little familiar during his daily perusal of the Louis Vuitton website: ... white-collar fashion-enthusiasts in Shanghai are upset that the spring-summer 2007 Louis-Vitton bags are exactly like those plaid red-blue-white bags you see farmers lugging around at Shanghai Railway Station as they head home from a visit to the city. We've got one in our closet. Should we post it on TaoBao? Photo by joeywan....","date":"October 19, 2006  2:45 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":4,"title":"The most fashionable people in China: Migrant workers","id":79177,"votes":22}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/07/07/sex_and_the_cit.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Jul 07, 2006","excerpt":"More great stuff from our friends in Beijing, Danwei TV. Well done, guys. (We wonder, though: Why don't Su Fei and the Hard Hat Guy just hook up already?) Is anyone in Shanghai doing similarly fun, interesting, creative and well-made video shorts? Shanghaiist wants to know. Email us at info at shanghaiist.com....","date":"July 07, 2006  7:44 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":10,"title":"<em>Sex and <strike>the City</em></strike> Beijing","id":44916,"votes":21}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/10/31/eye_on_queer_sh.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_tiff","displaydate":"Oct 31, 2006","excerpt":"Ever heard of Space Bar? Not many people have. It’s a well-kept secret in the gay community that just opened up a couple of months ago. 322 Space’s decor is simple and classy. The pub immediately catches the eye from the street due to the special sidewalk illumination. Inside is a large bar in the center of the establishment. Nooks and crannies branch off of the main room and provide intimate corners where customers can...","date":"October 31, 2006  08:45 AM","author":"Shanghai Fag Hag","comments":15,"title":"Eye on Gay Shanghai: The coolest bar you’ve never heard of ","id":80631,"votes":21}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/09/06/chinese_men_set_their_eyes_on_weste.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_thalia","displaydate":"Sep 06, 2008","excerpt":"Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place where \"in 20 years only one student made it into Tsinghua or Peking University.\" He managed to test into a...","date":"September 06, 2008  03:12 AM","author":"Thalia Kwok","comments":56,"title":"Chinese men set their eyes on Western women","id":180571,"votes":21}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/08/02/foreigner_attem.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_peijin","displaydate":"Aug 02, 2006","excerpt":"That's what this article says happened in Beijing on Monday afternoon: A foreign man scattered massive coins to deliberately lure Chinese passers-by to pick them up in order to wait for an opportunity to take photos in Jintai Road of Chaoyang District in Beijing at 4 p.m. on Monday. What he has done has aroused popular indignation. Finally, he had to pick up the coins by himself and left in a panic. At first this...","date":"August 02, 2006  9:57 PM","author":"Peijin Chen","comments":29,"title":"Foreigner attempts to humiliate Chinese people","id":61164,"votes":20}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2007/06/11/chongqings_dogg.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Jun 11, 2007","excerpt":"Hand it to Chongqing — at least the city's public toilets aren't boring. Last year, we told you about their streetside urinals that didn't leave enough to the imagination. Now come the outdoor sinks that are a dream come true for anyone who has ever fantasized about washing their hands while entering a woman from behind (you know who you are). The original story doesn't really say exactly where in the city you would find...","date":"June 11, 2007  3:35 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":15,"title":"Chongqing's doggie-style public sinks","id":110937,"votes":19}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/13/red_cross_society_earthquake_sichuan.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"May 13, 2008","excerpt":"By Sue Anne Tay For those who are looking to contribute to current aid efforts underway, you can now donate money to the Red Cross Society of China which has formed a disaster relief working group to be dispatched to the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County in Sichuan. They have also published an emergency relief hotline, along with bank account information to receive donations to assist their cause: Account name: Red Cross Society of China 开户单位：中国红十字会总会 For...","date":"May 13, 2008  02:05 AM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":4,"title":"Red Cross Society of China now calling for donations for Sichuan earthquake","id":161280,"votes":19}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/08/08/video_beijing_olympics_opening_cere.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_ada","displaydate":"Aug 08, 2008","excerpt":"For those of you that missed it, here's the first part of the Olympic opening ceremony, 08-08-08. Spectacular and very Zhang Yimou!...","date":"August 08, 2008  10:01 PM","author":"Ada Fredelius","comments":5,"title":"Video: Beijing Olympic's Opening ceremony","id":175703,"votes":18}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/07/11/eye_on_gay_shan_2.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_tiff","displaydate":"Jul 11, 2006","excerpt":"Shanghaiist is Shanghai’s No. 1 fag hag, just ask any gay man. There is a dearth of information on our great city's thriving gay community in the media. That's why we’ll be featuring different aspects of the scene, including entertainment venues, parties, and personal stories in the near future. Although, incomparable to San Francisco, Sydney or Amsterdam, at least Shanghai has its big gay parties hosted by the likes of R&G (think 3,000 of the...","date":"July 11, 2006  10:02 AM","author":"Shanghai Fag Hag","comments":8,"title":"Eye on Gay Shanghai: Into the deep","id":58304,"votes":17}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2006/07/27/team_america_pk.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_zat","displaydate":"Jul 27, 2006","excerpt":"Imagine Team America fights with Team China -- what would that be like? This Sino-America Police Sanshou Championship (中美警察自由搏击大赛) may offer us some answers. (Sanshou is a kind of hand-to-hand combat developed by the People's Liberation Army in the 1960s. For more info, go here.) According to the website of The Ministry of Public Security of People’s Republic of China (in Chinese), this championship, organized byMinistry of Public Security and Public Security Office of Hunan...","date":"July 27, 2006  5:00 PM","author":"Zat Liu","comments":0,"title":"Team America vs. Team China? F**k Yeah!","id":60327,"votes":17}, ];
var year_com_entries = [{"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/22/attack_on_an_american_volunteer.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 22, 2008","excerpt":"READ THIS: Volunteer in China: \"I was not in fact attacked by a mob\" Editor's note: This post has been updated. Details after the jump. Here's an email we received from a volunteer teacher from an Ivy League university volunteer programme in Hunan Province (who shall remain unnamed to protect the identities of everyone involved) — a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou. The matter has been...","date":"April 22, 2008  8:55 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":107,"title":"Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan: UPDATED","id":158059,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/20/buy_your_own_i_love_tibet_tshirt.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"Apr 20, 2008","excerpt":"By Benjamin Cohen \"I Love Tibet, but I Hate the Dalai Lama,\" and \"F*** CNN, Say No to Riots!\" are two of the nine nationalist t-shirts for sale on Taobao.com (english version). The shirt's creators state, \"Tibet was, is and always will be apart of China!\" We're pretty sure they mean \"a part\" (h/t to Megan Shank). But semantics aside, these shirts show growing nationalist sentiment that first gained ground with MSN messenger displays of...","date":"April 20, 2008  7:00 PM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":92,"title":"Buy your own \"I Love Tibet\" T-shirt on Taobao","id":157506,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/11/20/30_year_old_rmb3_million_foreign_do.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Nov 20, 2008","excerpt":"Adam Schokora of Danwei points us to this audio recording of a \"disgruntled customer lecturing a telephone operator at a well-known, city-wide food delivery company based in Shanghai\". Do a bit of research and you'll find there's only one food delivery company in town that delivers Blue Frog and it happens to be an advertiser on Shanghaiist. Does the voice of this douchebag sound familiar to any of you readers out there? We say unleash...","date":"November 20, 2008  5:55 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":77,"title":"Listen: \"RMB 3 million foreign douchebag in Shanghai\"","id":193912,"votes":4}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/16/nationalist-netizens-on-msn-messenger-heart-china.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 16, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/L_China_Nationalists_on_MSN_Messenger_heart_China'; Like Wang Jianshuo and Eric Hu, we were pretty surprised to see that this is what our MSN messenger looks like at the moment. Says Eric:Over half of my Chinese-Chinese friends on MSN have put the badge on their contact names, in defiance of all the anti-China bullying that they’re undoubtedly reading about in the Chinese newspapers, watching on the Chinese news, and scouring over on the hundreds of blogs and...","date":"April 16, 2008  3:20 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":75,"title":"(L) China: Nationalist netizens on MSN Messenger \"heart\" China","id":157131,"votes":14}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/22/opinionist_lhas.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Mata_hari","displaydate":"Mar 22, 2008","excerpt":"NOTE: The opinions expressed in \"Opinionist\" columns are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Shanghaiist. After logging on to various networking sites and instant messengers this week I started to see a similar sentence attached to a number of handles and headers. They were all some variation on the following idea: China is my adopted country, I love it here but recent events in Tibet are giving me a...","date":"March 22, 2008  12:10 AM","author":"Andy Best","comments":68,"title":"Opinionist: Lhasa should make us feel for all suffering","id":153059,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/12/earthquake-hits-wenchuan-sichuan.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"May 12, 2008","excerpt":"By Kenneth Tan, Dan Washburn, Pete Chorba, and Derek Sandhaus digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Huge_earthquake_jolts_Sichuan_tremors_felt_across_China'; A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:48 Beijing Time and tremors were felt (by our MSN friends) as far as Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing. This picture on the right shows the aftermath of the IT department of the Sichuan Bureau of the Xinhua...","date":"May 12, 2008  5:35 PM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":68,"title":"Breaking News: Earthquake 7.9 on Richter scale hits Sichuan, tremors felt across China, more than 10,000 dead, thousands more trapped under rubble - UPDATED OFTEN","id":161246,"votes":47}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/14/nationalist_netizens_boycott_carrefour_and_other_french_brands.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 14, 2008","excerpt":"First it was Coca-Cola. Now Carrefour, too, has been hit. The video on the right shows a confrontation between a (lone?) woman protestor outside Carrefour in Beijing and a PSB officer (h/t to PandaPassport). Jason Leow of the Wall Street Journal writes:Some Chinese citizens, angry over foreign criticism of their country's policies in Tibet, are calling for boycotts of at least two European retailers for purportedly supporting the Dalai Lama, the latest sign of growing...","date":"April 14, 2008  12:56 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":62,"title":"Nationalist netizens call for boycott of Carrefour and other French brands","id":156775,"votes":5}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/15/spielberg_boyco.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#ISpyShanghai.com","displaydate":"Feb 15, 2008","excerpt":"Steven Spielberg's decision to withdraw from arranging the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics caused press around the world (except for China) to rub their hands with glee this week at the prospect of China's dirty laundry being flown from the flagpoles of Beijing. Citing China's tacit support of genocide in Darfur, the director claimed that his conscience no longer allowed him to continue business as usual, and that the hosts \"should be...","date":"February 15, 2008  6:55 PM","author":"James Creegan","comments":56,"title":"Spielberg boycotts Beijing (Gebrselassie, too?)","id":147454,"votes":2}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/09/06/chinese_men_set_their_eyes_on_weste.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_thalia","displaydate":"Sep 06, 2008","excerpt":"Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place where \"in 20 years only one student made it into Tsinghua or Peking University.\" He managed to test into a...","date":"September 06, 2008  03:12 AM","author":"Thalia Kwok","comments":56,"title":"Chinese men set their eyes on Western women","id":180571,"votes":21}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/10/terrorism_olympics_xinjiang_crackdown.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sandhaus","displaydate":"Mar 10, 2008","excerpt":"As a country that has largely distanced itself from the clusterf*ck we call 'The International War on Terror' back in America, China has generally been considered one of the safer places in the world in terms of not getting blown up. While we hope that this doesn't change any time soon, recent developments have given us some cause for concern. It all started earlier this week when a man strapped with explosives boarded an Australian...","date":"March 10, 2008  12:02 AM","author":"Derek Sandhaus","comments":53,"title":"Terrorism, the Olympics, and the Xinjiang crackdown","id":150974,"votes":3}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/10/13/aric_queen_shanghai_exile.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Oct 13, 2008","excerpt":"Some of you will remember him for his messy hair, and others will remember him for his tight ass, but Aric Queen is back, this time with a hairband. The former City Weekend nightlife columnist, one time Shanghaiist contributor and serial podcaster found himself wanted by the police for a series of videos that he had been filing for Current TV under the name Shanghai Diaries (not to be confused with Dan Washburn's 2002 blog...","date":"October 13, 2008  08:00 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":52,"title":"Aric Queen to tell the story of his exile from Shanghai","id":186524,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/24/volunteer_in_ch.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Apr 24, 2008","excerpt":"Following up on our previous post entitled \"Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan,\" we were contacted today by James Galvin, the unnamed American volunteer mentioned in the story which has now gone on to receive coverage by the Associated Press. In his email, Galvin provided his first-hand account of the alleged incident outside a Carrefour Sunday night in Hunan Province. He feels the story has gotten blown out of proportion....","date":"April 24, 2008  3:26 PM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":51,"title":"Volunteer in China: \"I was not in fact attacked by a mob\"","id":158425,"votes":9}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/05/edison_chen_bob.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 05, 2008","excerpt":"RELEASE OF PICTURES OF HONG KONG STARS IN THE NUDE IN VARIOUS COMPROMISING SITUATIONS SETS TONGUES WAGGING ACROSS ASIA WARNING: Images after the jump are NOT safe for work (unless you happen to be a blogger working from home) Hong Kong celebrities Edison Chen (陈冠希), Bobo Chan (陈文媛), Gillian Chung (钟欣桐) and Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝) are currently embroiled in an embarrassing sex photo scandal that has whipped up a storm in the territory and the...","date":"February 05, 2008  2:00 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":48,"title":"Edison Chen, Bobo Chan, Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung embroiled in Hong Kong's biggest sex photo scandal ever","id":145654,"votes":280}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/15/jack-cafferty.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 15, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/political_opinion/CNN_s_Jack_Cafferty_says_Chinese_are_goons_and_thugs'; CNN commentator Jack Cafferty on the United States' relationship with China on the April 9 broadcast of \"Situation Room\":\"Well, I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different. We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We also are running hundred of...","date":"April 15, 2008  02:37 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":48,"title":"<em>Oops</em> of the Day 2: Jack Cafferty, CNN commentator","id":156875,"votes":7}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/16/foreign_ministr.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 16, 2008","excerpt":"We found on the Foreign Ministry website a question that was posed to Jiang Yu regarding Jack Cafferty's China remarks at a Tuesday press briefing and her response:Q: In covering the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in San Francisco recently, CNN's commentator Jack Cafferty attacked China, saying that Imported Chinese products are \"junk\", Chinese people are \"basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years.\" How do you comment on...","date":"April 16, 2008  11:18 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":48,"title":"Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Jack Cafferty's China remarks and CNN's apology","id":157167,"votes":3}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/26/sharon_stone_on.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"May 26, 2008","excerpt":"Has Sharon Stone been drinking too much lately? You be the judge. Here's what she said on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival when asked about the earthquake that has devastated the Sichuan Province:Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been...","date":"May 26, 2008  10:26 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":42,"title":"Sharon Stone on the Sichuan earthquake and karma; Zhang Ziyi pissed off","id":163456,"votes":24}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/18/coming_in_october_m1nt_shanghai_an.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Jul 18, 2008","excerpt":"If you've got lots of cash to spare, this news will get you wet. A new 20,000 square foot private club is going to open in the penthouse floor of the 24-storey Cross Tower on Fuzhou Lu by the Bund which is soon going to be renamed M1NT Tower after the name of the exclusive club also present in Hong Kong and Cannes. What makes this club special is that it is owned by members...","date":"July 18, 2008  07:32 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":42,"title":"Coming in October: M1NT Shanghai, an exclusive club for millionaires and billionaires","id":171991,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/12/12/time_running_out_on_usa_pavilion_at.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dan","displaydate":"Dec 12, 2008","excerpt":"An email we received yesterday from Bob Jacobson: I’m with the BH&L Group, a team of world-class Expo veterans struggling to reinvigorate the American effort — fumbled and dropped by the Bush State Department — to feature a US Pavilion at the all-important Shanghai 2010 World Expo. At the moment, there are no such plans. We’re the only country likely not to show!1 And BH&L is the only group that can turn the tide, with...","date":"December 12, 2008  09:07 AM","author":"Dan Washburn","comments":42,"title":"Time running out on USA pavilion at Shanghai World Expo","id":197577,"votes":4}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/06/shanghaiexpatco.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 06, 2008","excerpt":"We were surprised to read from the China Briefing blog that ShanghaiExpat.com has been reported to the Chinese Network Security Police:The social expatriate website Shanghaiexpat.com has had a legal case against it lodged with the network security division of the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai for libel and ‘disrupting social harmony’ it has been reported today. The site, which last year celebrated its fifth anniversary, has proved popular with local expatriates yet has consistently drawn...","date":"February 06, 2008  03:35 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":39,"title":"ShanghaiExpat.com reported to the Shanghai internet police?","id":145821,"votes":17}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/09/15/chinabashing_in_israeli_media.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Sep 15, 2008","excerpt":"Taiwan-based Israeli blogger Filination records several instances of China-bashing by Israeli TV personalities which he says are signs of a widespread Sinophobia that is \"now all over Israeli media\". The first instance is a long anti-China tirade by Keren Noybah of Channel 1’s News Today in which she describes the Chinese government as a \"dictatorship in the worst possible form\" and accuses all who watch the Olympic opening ceremony of \"participating in an act of...","date":"September 15, 2008  3:23 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":39,"title":"China-bashing in Israeli media","id":182027,"votes":11}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/10/29/how_would_china_vote_in_the_us_elec.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Oct 29, 2008","excerpt":"The Economist has opened up the vote to its readers worldwide to see who'd be the next US president if the whole world could vote. China, as it turns out, is \"strong Obama\" — 83% of respondents here voted Obama and 17% McCain. With more than 10,000 votes cast, it looks like the whole world is voting overwhelmingly in Obama's favour. When we last checked, 9,120 votes went to Obama while McCain managed 270 votes,...","date":"October 29, 2008  09:45 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":39,"title":"How would China vote in the U.S. elections?","id":189668,"votes":1}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/01/30/book_review_ame.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Mata_hari","displaydate":"Jan 30, 2008","excerpt":"Every now and again, time and space just seem to line up in an incredible display of fate/coincidence (delete as appropriate). For months now, we have been trying to get to grips with the strange brand of Uncle Tom-ism on display in the Shanghai ex-pativerse. It has so many unique facets that it appears to defy summary or clear explanation. Then along came Matthew Polly who wrote American Shaolin, a book that sets it all...","date":"January 30, 2008  08:00 AM","author":"Andy Best","comments":38,"title":"Book Review: American Shaolin","id":144653,"votes":4}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/15/chaos_continues.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Mar 15, 2008","excerpt":" We told you about the chaos happening simultaneously in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, and it looks like we're only at the start of something big, very big. Here are snippets of a conversation with a friend who is resident in Lhasa, but has since left the city to live in the countryside till some semblance of stability returns:\"It's like war out there – there are soldiers everywhere\" \"There's been a curfew in place...","date":"March 15, 2008  10:19 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":38,"title":"Chaos continues in Dharamsala and Lhasa","id":152102,"votes":6}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/10/24/sisu-fight.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Oct 24, 2008","excerpt":"ChinaSmack translates a post found on Tianya (now deleted) on a violent fight between Japanese and Chinese students at the Shanghai International Studies University that's said to have taken place on Monday:At present, the police, including the special police present, have already dispatched 10 police vehicles to maintain order, and the gathered crowd has just dispersed. On October 20, 2008, about 10 P.M., over ten Japanese students were getting drunk and causing a disturbance in...","date":"October 24, 2008  4:35 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":38,"title":"Overheard: Fight between Japanese and Chinese students at the Shanghai International Studies University","id":188964,"votes":3}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/13/winopete_trader_1.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_winopete","displaydate":"Feb 13, 2008","excerpt":"RYE WHISKEY AT MARTINI BAR: D&G Martini Bar (1/F, 6 on The Bund) has acquired a limited stock of Templeton rye whiskey, probably the only rye whiskey commercially available in Shanghai. Martini Bar has specially prepared some cocktail recipes featuring this much sought after liquor including \"The Horse's Neck\" and the \"Klondyke Clipper.\" Should you be a whiskey or Bourbon aficionado, mosey over to Martini Bar and sample one of these delightfully different drops. PUB...","date":"February 13, 2008  03:20 AM","author":"Winopete","comments":35,"title":"Winopete: Price rises, rye whiskey and more","id":146442,"votes":3}, ];
var year_fav_entries=[{"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/05/edison_chen_bob.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 05, 2008","excerpt":"RELEASE OF PICTURES OF HONG KONG STARS IN THE NUDE IN VARIOUS COMPROMISING SITUATIONS SETS TONGUES WAGGING ACROSS ASIA WARNING: Images after the jump are NOT safe for work (unless you happen to be a blogger working from home) Hong Kong celebrities Edison Chen (陈冠希), Bobo Chan (陈文媛), Gillian Chung (钟欣桐) and Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝) are currently embroiled in an embarrassing sex photo scandal that has whipped up a storm in the territory and the...","date":"February 05, 2008  2:00 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":48,"title":"Edison Chen, Bobo Chan, Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung embroiled in Hong Kong's biggest sex photo scandal ever","id":145654,"votes":280}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/07/the_edison_chen.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 07, 2008","excerpt":"For Part 1 of this story, click HERE. Shanghaiist is hyperventilating. Just when we thought the worst was over, a new set of pics have surfaced. After looking through the pictures, we had to take a while to recover from the massive nasal haemorrhage we suffered before we could calm down ourselves enough to put this story together (oh how very self-sacrificial!). The surfacing of the new pictures are an embarrassment to the Hong Kong...","date":"February 07, 2008  09:12 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":29,"title":"The Edison Chen sex scandal rages on with more pictures released by mystery man","id":146048,"votes":120}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/12/jolin_tsai_magg.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 12, 2008","excerpt":"So much has happened since our last post on the Edison Chen photo scandal that it is about time we updated you! First, the Edison Chen saga has caught the attention of CNN. The Chinese-speaking world has never been as enraptured in a scandal as this, and its scale and magnitude is threatening to make Paris Hilton look very passé. Kristie Lu Stout reports: Yet more female celebrities have been sucked into the scandal with...","date":"February 12, 2008  4:13 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":16,"title":"Jolin Tsai, Maggie Q, Vincey Yeung sucked into Edison Chen scandal; Gillian Chung admits involvement","id":146839,"votes":93}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/12/earthquake-hits-wenchuan-sichuan.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"May 12, 2008","excerpt":"By Kenneth Tan, Dan Washburn, Pete Chorba, and Derek Sandhaus digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Huge_earthquake_jolts_Sichuan_tremors_felt_across_China'; A strong earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale has rocked Wenchuan in Sichuan province, some 92km northwest of Chengdu. The earthquake took place at 14:48 Beijing Time and tremors were felt (by our MSN friends) as far as Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing. This picture on the right shows the aftermath of the IT department of the Sichuan Bureau of the Xinhua...","date":"May 12, 2008  5:35 PM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":68,"title":"Breaking News: Earthquake 7.9 on Richter scale hits Sichuan, tremors felt across China, more than 10,000 dead, thousands more trapped under rubble - UPDATED OFTEN","id":161246,"votes":47}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/15/17yearold_chinese_girl_beaten_and_r.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_julien","displaydate":"Jul 15, 2008","excerpt":"From aujourdhuilachine.com: The Chinese web is astir with the news of a video showing a 17-year-old girl being repeatedly beaten by a group of girls and raped by four boys. A year after the actual events, a daily Chinese newspaper relates the story. On July, 3rd, a Mr Xiong contacts the Chinese daily newssite nndaily.com and tells them about the video: \"I hope you will look into that.\" A journalist watches the video, showing a...","date":"July 15, 2008  06:00 AM","author":"Julien Bertrand","comments":3,"title":"17-year-old Chinese girl beaten and raped; Video on Chinese web","id":171341,"votes":45}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/11/18/kappa_girl_fired_for_sex_video.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Nov 18, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/Kappa_Girl_sex_scandal_in_Shanghai_China'; UPDATE: 'Kappa Girl' detained by Shanghai police! A 12 minute long sex video of a female employee working at the Kappa store in the east building of the Shanghai No.1 Department Store on Nanjing Lu has recently been spreading like wildfire on the Chinese internet via Bittorrent and the Chinese peer-to-peer application Xunlei, catapulting the search term 'Kappa女' (or \"Kappa Girl\") into one of the top ten search terms on Google...","date":"November 18, 2008  08:00 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":11,"title":"'Kappa Girl' fired for sex video","id":193368,"votes":38}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/26/sharon_stone_on.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"May 26, 2008","excerpt":"Has Sharon Stone been drinking too much lately? You be the judge. Here's what she said on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival when asked about the earthquake that has devastated the Sichuan Province:Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been...","date":"May 26, 2008  10:26 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":42,"title":"Sharon Stone on the Sichuan earthquake and karma; Zhang Ziyi pissed off","id":163456,"votes":24}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/22/attack_on_an_american_volunteer.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Apr 22, 2008","excerpt":"READ THIS: Volunteer in China: \"I was not in fact attacked by a mob\" Editor's note: This post has been updated. Details after the jump. Here's an email we received from a volunteer teacher from an Ivy League university volunteer programme in Hunan Province (who shall remain unnamed to protect the identities of everyone involved) — a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou. The matter has been...","date":"April 22, 2008  8:55 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":107,"title":"Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan: UPDATED","id":158059,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/18/the_racist_games.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_dedric","displaydate":"Jul 18, 2008","excerpt":" digg_url = 'http://digg.com/olympics/Report_Beijing_bars_told_to_ban_black_people_during_Olympic';In a couple of weeks Beijing will turn into a party town and Sanlitun is predicted to be the epicenter of the Olympic night events. The South China Morning Post has however reported that the bar owners in the area were asked to refuse service to black patrons. The article reports: Bar owners near the Workers' Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign...","date":"July 18, 2008  3:08 PM","author":"Dedric Lam","comments":24,"title":"Report: Beijing bars told to ban black people during Olympics","id":172086,"votes":23}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/09/06/chinese_men_set_their_eyes_on_weste.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_thalia","displaydate":"Sep 06, 2008","excerpt":"Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place where \"in 20 years only one student made it into Tsinghua or Peking University.\" He managed to test into a...","date":"September 06, 2008  03:12 AM","author":"Thalia Kwok","comments":56,"title":"Chinese men set their eyes on Western women","id":180571,"votes":21}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/13/red_cross_society_earthquake_sichuan.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_sueanne","displaydate":"May 13, 2008","excerpt":"By Sue Anne Tay For those who are looking to contribute to current aid efforts underway, you can now donate money to the Red Cross Society of China which has formed a disaster relief working group to be dispatched to the earthquake-stricken Wenchuan County in Sichuan. They have also published an emergency relief hotline, along with bank account information to receive donations to assist their cause: Account name: Red Cross Society of China 开户单位：中国红十字会总会 For...","date":"May 13, 2008  02:05 AM","author":"Sue Anne Tay","comments":4,"title":"Red Cross Society of China now calling for donations for Sichuan earthquake","id":161280,"votes":19}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/08/08/video_beijing_olympics_opening_cere.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_ada","displaydate":"Aug 08, 2008","excerpt":"For those of you that missed it, here's the first part of the Olympic opening ceremony, 08-08-08. Spectacular and very Zhang Yimou!...","date":"August 08, 2008  10:01 PM","author":"Ada Fredelius","comments":5,"title":"Video: Beijing Olympic's Opening ceremony","id":175703,"votes":18}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/06/shanghaiexpatco.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 06, 2008","excerpt":"We were surprised to read from the China Briefing blog that ShanghaiExpat.com has been reported to the Chinese Network Security Police:The social expatriate website Shanghaiexpat.com has had a legal case against it lodged with the network security division of the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai for libel and ‘disrupting social harmony’ it has been reported today. The site, which last year celebrated its fifth anniversary, has proved popular with local expatriates yet has consistently drawn...","date":"February 06, 2008  03:35 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":39,"title":"ShanghaiExpat.com reported to the Shanghai internet police?","id":145821,"votes":17}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/08/from_hong_kong.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 08, 2008","excerpt":"From You.Presscue.com More scandalous sex pictures from Hong Kong ... this time courtesy of their Family Planning Association!...","date":"February 08, 2008  6:18 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":4,"title":"From Hong Kong with Love: Sex education dolls","id":146280,"votes":17}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/10/more_news_on_death_of_canadian_mode.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_hilary","displaydate":"Jul 10, 2008","excerpt":"In the past 24 hours, the number of Western news agencies reporting details and speculations about Diana O'Brien’s death have multiplied. Shanghai police have stayed quiet on the death though, refusing to report details to foreign press. The result is a series of conflicting stories, most of which point to the model’s death occurring in her own Shanghai apartment building, not on Chongming Island, as we reported yesterday. Some sources say that she was killed...","date":"July 10, 2008  12:01 AM","author":"Hilary Faxon","comments":4,"title":"More news on death of Canadian model Diana O'Brien in Shanghai","id":170477,"votes":17}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/21/edison_chen_stu.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 21, 2008","excerpt":"WARNING: If you are sick and tired of reading about Edison Chen's private parts ... stop reading now! Yesterday, the man finally returned to Hong Kong to host a long-awaited press conference with 300 journalists. He admitted that the photos were taken by him and stolen from his computer, and also apologised to the women involved in the scandal, as well as their families. More shocking was his announcement that he will leave showbiz. Here...","date":"February 21, 2008  11:10 PM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":25,"title":"Edison Chen stuns Hong Kong by quitting showbiz","id":148325,"votes":16}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/13/quote_of_the_da.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Mar 13, 2008","excerpt":" \"There are many people studying Chinese now. I hope that all of you reporters, and the other ladies and gentlemen in attendance, can take up the study of Chinese. I believe that Chinese is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn. Otherwise, how can you explain why 1.3 billion people have chosen it as their mother tongue?\" — Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi (杨洁篪) in a press conference yesterday morning [h/t...","date":"March 13, 2008  12:53 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":5,"title":"Quote of the Day: Yang Jiechi (杨洁篪)","id":151738,"votes":16}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/01/23/digital_roaming.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Jan 23, 2008","excerpt":"Recently we stumbled across an interesting website that might have finally answered the age-old question: 'What should I do with my visiting friends and family while I'm at work?' ChinaTrackers.com is a company offering MP3-guided tours of Shanghai and we would assume, from the animation on their homepage, other cities will be soon to follow. The Shanghai destinations include plenty of the standard tourist fare (Old Town, People's Square, The Bund), but also has a...","date":"January 23, 2008  12:00 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":0,"title":"Digital Roaming: Chinatrackers.com","id":143444,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/27/olympic_diver_g.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 27, 2008","excerpt":"Diving queen Guo Jingjing (郭晶晶) has been slammed left right and centre for her less than stellar behaviour at a press conference after taking home the silver for the women's 3m springboard final at the \"Good Luck Beijing\" FINA Diving World Cup where she was edged out by team mate Wu Minxia (吴敏霞). Guo was described by the media as highly \"inattentive\" at the press conference attended by over 100 local and foreign journalists, looking...","date":"February 27, 2008  05:25 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":5,"title":"Olympic diver Guo Jingjing slammed by the Chinese media","id":149076,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/03/22/opinionist_lhas.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#Mata_hari","displaydate":"Mar 22, 2008","excerpt":"NOTE: The opinions expressed in \"Opinionist\" columns are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Shanghaiist. After logging on to various networking sites and instant messengers this week I started to see a similar sentence attached to a number of handles and headers. They were all some variation on the following idea: China is my adopted country, I love it here but recent events in Tibet are giving me a...","date":"March 22, 2008  12:10 AM","author":"Andy Best","comments":68,"title":"Opinionist: Lhasa should make us feel for all suffering","id":153059,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/06/20/the_li_pengfei_scandal_hell_hath_no.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Jun 20, 2008","excerpt":" Unrequited love has led a young Chinese woman to create a website, and publish all the photos of her ex-boyfriend Li Pengfei (李鹏飞) in the most compromising positions (wanking in bed, performing cunnilingus on her, etc.) in a last ditch attempt to get back at him. The sexy pictures were published along with all the sordid details of how the little casanova was supposed to have tricked her out of her money and love...","date":"June 20, 2008  12:05 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":4,"title":"The Li Pengfei Scandal: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned","id":167314,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/10/13/aric_queen_shanghai_exile.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Oct 13, 2008","excerpt":"Some of you will remember him for his messy hair, and others will remember him for his tight ass, but Aric Queen is back, this time with a hairband. The former City Weekend nightlife columnist, one time Shanghaiist contributor and serial podcaster found himself wanted by the police for a series of videos that he had been filing for Current TV under the name Shanghai Diaries (not to be confused with Dan Washburn's 2002 blog...","date":"October 13, 2008  08:00 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":52,"title":"Aric Queen to tell the story of his exile from Shanghai","id":186524,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/11/07/helping_hand.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_shanghaiist","displaydate":"Nov 07, 2008","excerpt":"By Jellymon We think we may have just discovered our new career. Healthy men in Shanghai can get paid for sperm donation between 200rmb to 3500rmb a pop (depending on whether anyone picks your product). Along with the cash you are given a helping hand by one of the amiable nurses (and that really is just our wishful thinking). First donors need to go for health check and semen analysis, and then 4-7 days prior...","date":"November 07, 2008  1:10 PM","author":"Shanghaiist","comments":6,"title":"Where to go donate your sperm","id":191329,"votes":15}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/01/22/the_return_of_t.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_jfk","displaydate":"Jan 22, 2008","excerpt":"By JFK Miller The KMT, the party of Chiang Kai-shek, is back in power in Taiwan after a thumping victory over the DPP in last week’s national legislative elections. The elections were the first round of two major national polls, and the KMT also looks set to win the second round in March when the island votes to elect its president. So what does all this mean for cross-straits relations? Most pundits agree there’ll be...","date":"January 22, 2008  12:04 AM","author":"JFK Miller","comments":15,"title":"The return of the KMT","id":143245,"votes":14}, {"link":"http://shanghaiist.com/2008/02/21/edison_chen_sex.php","authorlink":"/staff.php#shang_kenneth","displaydate":"Feb 21, 2008","excerpt":"BAIDU RAPPED FOR SPREADING THE PICTURES; CHINESE COPS ARREST 10 SUSPECTS IN SHENZHEN We told you in an earlier story how Baidu, China's most popular search engine, was making it oh-so-easy for everyone to find pictures of Edison Chen engaged in naughty activities with various Hong Kong starlets. Conduct a Baidu search for Edison Chen's Chinese name \"陈冠希\", and Baidu will offer up automatic related keyword searches for \"Edison Chen Sex-Photo-Gate\", \"Edison Chen Gillian Chung...","date":"February 21, 2008  12:03 AM","author":"Kenneth Tan","comments":6,"title":"Edison Chen sex scandal: Witchhunt hits China","id":148128,"votes":14}, ];