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• Posted China's "mistress boom": Raising the red lantern to Shanghaiist
  Chinese Communist Party officials will be forced to make known their extramarital indiscretions after a very public break-up between one disgruntled mistress and her CCP-employed ex-lover. Ex-beauty queen Da Beini has been described as "the richest mistress in Shanghai", a reputation secured by her attempt to sell the many gifts bequested by her former lover on an online auction site. Items up for grabs include designer clothing and handbags, a luxury Lexus, a villa in...
• Posted Book Review: Shanghai Baby grows up (a little) to Shanghaiist
  Wei Hui's debut into the literary world six years ago was marked by controversy, furore, criticism and ultimately commercial success -- Shanghai Baby was banned by the Beijing Government in April 2000 for its worship of Western culture and blatant representation of female sexuality and its author denounced as "decadent, debauched and a slave of foreign culture." Subsequently, 40,000 copies of the novel were publicly burnt, Hui's editor was fired and Shanghai Baby predictably shot...
• Posted Desperate days about to hit China to Shanghaiist
  It's official: the women of Wisteria Lane are coming to China -- and with them the explicit exploits, controversial storylines and salacious gossip that has made Desperate Housewives such a runaway success worldwide. The show will premiere in September on CCTV-8, in the nightly segment "Everyday Jiayi" with two episodes screening per day. As Shanghaiist pondered previously, what persuaded state-sponsored CCTV (who decreed that Friends was too sexually explicit) to allow the screening of a...
• Posted Fickleness of Fashion: Vogue China launches early to Shanghaiist
  Vogue China has hit the newstands in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, two weeks in advance of its September launch date. In yet another volte-face from the international fashion bible, the much-speculated Gisele Bundchen cover was cancelled in favour of Western Australian gamine Gemma Ward, the 17-year-old veteran of 13 Vogue covers. Styled by French Vogue doyenne Carine Roitfeld and shot by renowned fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier in Shanghai, the gatefold cover features Ward in typical...
• Posted Joyce and Vogue China: Fun for fashionistas to Shanghaiist
  Hong Kong fashion mecca Joyce will expand its boutiques to Shanghai and Beijing by 2007, according to managing director Adrienne Ma. Ma told Bloomberg News: "Greater China is definitely our focus, our direction, our strategy." Shanghainese style mavens will no doubt embrace Joyce, with its enviable stable of international brands such as Balenciaga, Chloé and Marc Jacobs and reputation for stocking the most exclusive styles. Joyce will be a power player in Shanghai, joining existing...