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Nihao everyone! You might have noticed that Shanghaiist looks a little different today. In fact, all of the Gothamist network has been going through a bit of a remodelling lately. The goal of the new design was to make content easier to read, and to make the site as a whole easier to use. The content area is now better visually defined (with borders!) and we've added featured posts to the top of the page. Additionally, we've migrated the blog to the newest Movable Type software. That should make the site faster and more stable, and allow us to add new features over the next year. The new design you see before you is a work in progress -- we'll be making tweaks to it as we go along, and we welcome your feedback (and bug reports) in the comments on this post. Hope you like our new look as much as we do!
Get ready for the QQBook
Hot on the heels of the Asus eeePC and the meteoric rise of the netbook, Tencent has leaked that it is planning to launch a "lightweight, long-life notebook computer" next year. JLM Pacific Epoch says that it will be themed on the instant messaging tool. Our guess is that it will just be another ultra-light netbook with a penguin sticker on it.
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Chinese state-owned media have been going on ad nauseum lately marking the 30th anniversary of China's market reforms. When Deng Xiaoping launched his open door policy, he undoubted had this village in mind, Huaxi, 100 miles north of Shanghai in Jiangsu Province, which is commonly known today as China's richest village. Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera visited the village, and found people there living in huge houses complete with all the latest home appliances and cars and what have you. Life appears to be so good there we ourselves were momentarily tempted to move there.
Tudou cofounder and mastermind behind the Chinese online game site game.com.cn (we wonder how much he paid for that domain name!) Marc van der Chijs seems to think so:
This week we were analyzing the traffic figures on our Chinese online game sites game.com.cn and xiaoyouxi.com, when we noted a strange effect. During weekdays there was hardly any growth on our portals, but on weekends the growth was similar to what we were used to. We looked a bit deeper into this and may have found a reason for this: staff in companies play less online games during working hours (normally we see a spike in traffic around 11:30 AM and from 4 PM onwards).more ›
Xu Xi, author of Evanescent Isles talks to Zhang Lijia, journalist and author of the book Socialism is Great. In her book, Zhang tells her fascinating story of how she worked as a teenager in a Nanjing factory which produced missiles designed to reach North America, participated in the Tiananmen Square protests and eventually became a journalist.
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- Reclaiming Old Shanghai? [The China Beat]
- China: 08 Charter, signers arrested and questioned by police [Global Voices Online]
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Shanghai-based China Eastern airlines has announced that it will increase its flights to Taipie from 3 times weekly to daily beginning next Monday. Also, whereas previously all flights had to bypass Hong Kong airspace, now flights are all going direct, ie., you can now get to Taipei in a little over an hour and for less than what you used to pay for! This is truly historic. A quick check with Elong.com indicate roundtrip flights to cost approximately RMB2100 plus tax of about RMB658.
Robert Scoble visits Seagate's Wuxi hard drive factory and sits down with Tan Leong Hooi, VP of Wuxi Manufacturing at Seagate, for a chat.
List: Tuition fees for international schools in Shanghai
Via Micah Sittig on Twitter we learned of this spreadsheet that compares tuition fees for international high schools in Shanghai. Fourteen schools are included on the list and they range in annual cost from US$11,319 (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Private School), up 30% from last year, to US$30,689 (British International School), up 7% from last year. The only school whose tuition went down this year was the Shanghai American School, down 7% to US$22,092. Time to stock up on the ol' birth control.
Her boyfriend told a doctor that her left ear cracked while they were kissing. The woman later found she couldn't hear anything with that ear.
China's "blueprint for a worldwide revolution" according to the US Navy in 1964. [h/t to Mutant Palm]
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