Posted Bashing the China-bashing to Shanghaiist
Shanghaiist is going to give Senator Clinton the benefit of the doubt -- that she actually knows better but is just being the politician that everybody expects her to be. But the following infuriatingly pandering comment puts Senator Clinton right up there with the lovely Senator Schumer on this Shanghaiist's "too-political-for-America's-own-good" list:"We have to have tougher standards on what they import into this country," she said. I don't want to eat bad food from China...
Posted Pet-friendly cab service ... in China to Shanghaiist
Shanghaiist lost count long ago of the number times we've thrown very unladylike expletive-laced fits in the middle of sidewalks when the umpteenth cab driver we've tried to hail has taken one look at our adorable, amazingly well-behaved-in-cabs pups and sped off. Seeing this China Daily headline ("Taxi wants to serve your pets") got us all excited before we realized it was not a service available in Shanghai. The pet-centered cab service is run by...
Posted When mailing body parts, just say they are 'medicine' to Shanghaiist
Ewww. Here's a little lunchtime story for all of you (if you really don't take gore well with food, either put down your lunch, or wait until you're through eating to read this): On January 7, staff at a logistics company in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province, found a human torso in a box seeping blood but marked as carrying medicine, the China Daily said. Two days later, police in Beijing and Jiangyin, in...
Posted We swear, we're not trying to ruin your weekend to Shanghaiist
First up, we have a couple of high-profile political imprisonings. There's the New York Times researcher, Zhao Yan, who has been sentenced to three years in jail for correctly predicting former president Jiang Zemin's retirement, aka "fraud." Then there is blind activist, Chen Guangcheng, who has been jailed for 4 years for pissing off local officials in Yinan, Shandong, after exposing their use of forced abortion as birth control. Officially, he was jailed for "damaging...
Posted 'Organ donor' takes on a whole new meaning to Shanghaiist
Props to the New York Times for rooting out a China scoop that covers all of those hot China topics -- human rights, sourcing and intellectual property rights -- all at once. And all of this is done while covering the topic of the country's growing cadaver industry. Ick. But it's one of those things that is potentially so awful, partly because it is not far-removed from some very real issues and problems here, that...
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