Move over Mao! The Beijing Olympic stadium is taking over as symbol of China pride, at least on newly-issued 10 RMB notes, which feature the stadium and Greek statuary, but no portrait of the Chairman. Mao’s absence from the currency marks the first time in nearly a decade that he hasn’t been prominently featured on Chinese cash.Mao’s image may be on the decline, but there is one thing China will never relinquish — the bicycle.......

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Tonight 8pm NEXTSTEP @ Vintage Living 3F, 2068 Nanjing Xilu, by Yongyuan Lu, T: 6249-0469 Calling all Shanghai entrepreneurs! Come meet new faces and get to know other like-minded individuals at this week's NextStep event which features Tony Mustafa of Essential Finance. All are welcome, no membership required, and no cover charge. Wednesday 8pm Shanghai Skate Nights @ Shanghai Concert Hall 523 Yan'an Dong Lu (near Xizang Lu) The bi-weekly Shanghai SkateNights continues to gather......

World Car Free Day, September 22 Ever thought of what you're doing to offset your carbon footprint? This Saturday, instead of driving your car or taking a taxi, why don't you try taking public transport, cycling or walking instead? Residents will be asked to avoid driving private cars within the Inner Ring Road, and while compliance is not mandatory, driving will be banned outright in some areas. Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), September 25 As the mercury......

Learn more about this project This is a simple chasing game we developed in Scratch to celebrate this summer's street dramas between cyclists and Shanghainese traffic attendants. You are the bicycle trying to keep away from JingJing the famous Net policewoman, who is trying to serve you with a fine for riding on the wrong side of the road. You can move the bicycle in different directions by pressing the different cursor keys. Scratch......

Shanghaiist has had a string of bad luck in recent months when it comes to locks. Say, for example, the lock on our door which swung closed behind us one Saturday night at 3am and left us stranded outside our apartment with only a towel to cover our modesty (long story). Or, say like tonight, the Kryptonite lock on our beloved Dahon folding bike parked at the corner of HuaiHai and FenYang Rd jammed and......

China to take up currency row directly with US Congress "Tough-talking Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi is to meet with key Congressional panels during her visit to Washington this month for a "strategic economic dialogue" launched by the two powers in December, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said." Survey on standard of living for migrant workers A survey found that the standard of living of migrant workers isonly about one half of that of city......

China is biggest espionage threat to Canada "Almost half of counter-espionage efforts in Canada target Chinese spies, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told a senate committee on Monday." Songs, kisses and sweat on Labor Day of migrant workers "In the prosperous metropolis of Shanghai, migrant workers even joined in performances, singing and dancing and taking part in games to show their talents." Hershey lures Asians with green tea Kisses "The century-old......

Shanghaiist contributor Micah has posted some information about the present and future of Wujiang Lu in the comments section of our post from yesterday. We thought they were worth highlighting. Comment No. 1: I've been reading some Chinese articles on this from Google News: Looks like, concretely, they're shutting down and "remodelling" the section between Taixing Rd, where the WB store is, and Shimen No 1 Rd, where the "real" Wujiang Rd starts. The rest......

The lead character in the drama you see unfolding in the photos above is a man suspected of killing his 71-year-old mother-in-law and his 13-year-old nephew on March 30 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. For good measure, he allegedly also killed a "bicycle caretaker" yesterday, the same day police cornered him in a room on the eighth floor of a hospital. His wife somehow tipped police off regarding his whereabouts (we don't know why he......

Imagine Superman, Monkey King, time travel, martial arts and state-of-the-art technology all rolled into one. Sorry for that mental image, but this is what Mohuan Shouji (魔幻手机 or "Magic Cellphone") promises when it hits the small screen in November. This "modern" fantasy television drama series brings up a concept that human beings can actually be transported through SMS (we have heard rumors that Shanghai officials and mobile phone service providers are actually planning on launching......

Chinese man dies during gaming session "The 26-year-old man, surnamed Zhang from the city of Jinzhou, died Saturday after a marathon gaming session from what a doctor said was overwork and obesity." Tom Online apologizes to The Beijing News for copyright violation "Tom Online apologized to The Beijing News for republishing articles from the paper without authorization between 2003 and 2006 and will provide compensation, Tom Online said in a statement." China Confirms Human......

Lots of juicy transportation news today: A new displacement order has been released by the Xujiahui Housing, Land and Resource Administration Bureau which is likely related to work on an extension of the Maglev to Hongqiao Airport.At the ongoing Shanghai People's Congress, representative Lei Guofen submitted a proposal asking that the commercial advertisements after stop names announced on metro cars (including the ubiquitous and therefore infamous Christine Bakery) be replaced by announcments of "public and......

When in China, don't do as the Romans would do ... or something like that. China is preparing to install another bishop without the Vatican's consent. The ceremony consecrating Wang Renlei, vicar general of the Xuzhou Diocese in Jiangsuu, could take palce as soon as Thursday.Are Shanghainese becoming more accepting of people from other province? Accepting enough to marry them.Top 8 models at Beijing Auto Show.This is scary. Another person was electrocuted while taking a......

Shanghai now has China's first lesbian hotline.China has sentenced Chen Hui, 28, an internet "porn king" who operated several smut sites to life in prison. We guess those masturbation skills are going to come in handy.Shanghai researchers discover new cause for Alzheimer's disease.Two Shanghainese twin brothers are now training with PSV Eindhoven.Air pollution in Beijing is now at hazardous levels.The people of the Beijing suburbs and city make more per month than their counterparts in......

Yesterday's Metro Express reports on a vote by 2470 internet users of real-estate website Sofun.com to decide which Shanghai metro station has the most romantic potential, ie where you would be most likely to meet your one true commuting love. The grand prize winner? Xujiahui, which the poll pegged as "publicly acknowledged to be Line 1's gathering place for beautiful women". According to analysis by voters, the nominees could generally be grouped into three categories.......

Q: How many locals does it take to fill a sidewalk? A: Four cyclists, a guy on a motorbike, two DVD sellers, a trio of street sweepers, a chuanr stand, and the shopkeeper who comes out to his stoop to throw a tissue onto the pavement. Sounds cramped, right? Blame the increase in car numbers: many Shanghai streets were widened in the early 1990s to make way for more vehicles. But here’s some good news:......

A few weeks ago, Shanghaiist spoke out against a nitwit AP writer who penned a story about absolutely nothing (and not in the Seinfeld "good nothing" kind of way). Well, our friend at the AP seems to have resurfaced, this time in Shanghai, writing for our city’s finest English language newspaper, Shanghai Daily, under the assumed name “Yuan Qi”. Alright, we admit, this sounds a bit far-fetched. But, we did spot a story that reeked......

The Olympics in 2008 and the Expo in 2010 -- it still sounds far off, but four Shanghai men are making sure the folks out in Tibet know about these two events that get media people up out of bed every morning. The catch is they're traveling by bicycle!. They left on May 6 on their 11,100 kilometer journey. Also worth mentioning is the fact that the four men are aged 56-71, average age 62.......

It finally happened. Sometime between the early evening last night and this afternoon, Shanghaiist's bicycle was stolen. Yes, it was locked. Twice. And no, we did not bring it into our apartment, to the collective shock and incredulity of our landlord and the retired woman that minds the front entrance of our apartment block. Shanghaiist had naively believed that the four flights of stairs we schlepped the thing every time we used it (almost daily)......

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi's tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy's most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use for......

If you choose to undergo the necessary procedures for hiring a car, or even easier, borrowing a friends, then where to go? The best places for day trips around Shanghai are Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangcheng Lake (in Suzhou) and Zhouzhuang. Yangcheng lake is a very popular day-trip for the locals, as the lake is famous for its delicious crabs. Go in October to December for the best crabs. To drive there, you just need to get......

We have no idea, but it's happening, according the subscription-only South China Morning Post (via the World Business Council for Sustainable Development): Paying scant attention to the lessons learned by European cities during the past 50 years, China is hurtling with speed and single-mindedness into the car era, favouring it over bicycles and motorbikes. It wants to become a car superpower, like the US and Japan, and sees a booming domestic market as key to......

A little more than five years ago, Shanghai police arrested Chen Genrong, the mastermind behind the underground production of fake Phoenix-brand bicycles. Shanghai Star reported then that daily around 1,500 bicycles used to be shipped from his secret warehouse on Gong Qing Tuan Lu in order to be sold nationwide. The arrest might have raised a few foreign eyebrows living and working in a country that managed to eschew the paradox out of such terms......

With its "E-mail From Shanghai: Return of the Bourgeois Dogs," TIME magazine points out one of thousands of examples that China today is nothing like it was 30 or 40 years ago -- many people own pet dogs, animals that were outlawed and slaughtered by Chairman Mao's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. The fact that many Shanghainese own dogs (if that's what you choose to call these tiny creatures) is nothing new, and thanks......

Most people climb the Great Wall. Some run up it. A few strange souls ride their unicycles on it. And 1000 saxophonists are planning to gather on it to play their instruments in unison (if you've scheduled an outing to Badaling that day, we strongly suggest a stroll around the Summer Palace instead). Then there's Danny Way. He's going to jump over the Great Wall on his skateboard. Tomorrow. 5pm. Now, we at Shanghaiist have......

Bikes get stolen in Shanghai. Sure, they go missing in New York, or Seattle, but Shanghai seems to have less respect for the lock than most metropoli. When our cute orange folding bike turned up missing last week, Shanghaiist went a bit crazy. While many bike theft victims purchase progressively cheaper bikes, following the theory that "this one's so garbage no one could possibly want it," we went the opposite direction. Walking past Speed Cat......