Allie Shi

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• Posted "Internet addict" teen beaten to death in "personality training program" to Shanghaiist
  According to Netease, a junior high school graduate, Deng, who hadn't yet turned 16 was beaten into death around 3AM yesterday in Nanning city of Guangxi province, as part of his training to build confidence and correct bad habits. On August 1st, Deng entered the "Guangzhou Determined Youth Growth Guidance Center(广州励志青少年成长辅导中心)" in Nanning. Before entering, Deng's parents paid 7000RMB and signed a "Guidance Contract" with the center. The goal of the youth training program...
• Posted Idea for foreigners: "Guest act" as a city guard to Shanghaiist
  Foreign friends, ever thought about working in the Chinese municipal administration? Apparently it's possible - a 28-year-old French man named Diaz Yannick worked as a "temporary city guard (城管)" this Tuesday in Wuhan. At 9:30AM sharp, Diaz appeared with all the other Chinese municipal administrators in Jianghan district of Wuhan city, wearing the guard uniform. When he confronted a food store which distributed food and drinks around the street, Diaz used his newly learned Chinese...
• Posted Crocodile in the subway to Shanghaiist
  According to Netease, around 5am yesterday morning, a 1.5-meter long crocodile was found in the construction area of Subway Line 10, Dongfang Mall stop in the Yangpu district. Workers immediately called the police and, with the help of firemen, the croc was caught and carried away safely. After examining its origins, experts discovered that this was an Estuarine Crocodile, the largest family of reptiles on earth. This kind of crocodile is very aggressive and can...
• Posted The Lorena Bobbit of Guangzhou to Shanghaiist
  Heating up the Netease forums is this sorrowful story: a Guangdong husband brazenly brought his affair back home after 10 years of marriage. If that wasn't enough, he even made love to his mistress in front of his wife and requested her to sleep with them. This 37-year-old wife, Mrs. Xie, couldn't stand her husband's behavior but all her objections only brought her curses, beatings and denial by her husband. Angrily, Mrs. Xie waited...
• Posted Interview: Été founder Minhua Xia talks fashion to Shanghaiist
  15 years ago, Minhua Xia, the founder of Chinese clothing brand Été, came from her home in northern China to Shanghai alone to study fashion at China Spinning University (中国纺织大学), struggling to keep herself financially afloat by working at a clothing factory in her spare time. Two years after graduation, Minhua opened up a fashion brand with two classmates and 150,000RMB of seed money. But three years after that, the three friends left because...