While in Beijing promoting his newest film, Batman star Christian Bale drove eight hours from Beijing to Shandong to attempt to visit and lend support to blind activist Chen Guangcheng - currently under house-arrest. Upon arriving, Bale and his entourage of CNN cameramen and reporters were pushed around and chased away by the team of undercover policemen guarding Chen's house. more ›

The movie features Christian Bale in the role of John Haufman, a mortician sent to bury a priest at a private boarding school for girls in Nanjing during the massacre. Based on a true story, Bale's mortician dons the robes of the recently deceased priest, and assumes his identity in order to protect the girls, as their school comes under siege from Japanese troops. more ›

Christian Bale had a freak out. And then someone remixed it into the most amazing techno song ever. And since he once played a nutty Shanghai expat kid in Empire of the Sun, we think that gives us all the reason we need to put it up here. NSFW more ›

A Shanghai Daily story provides example number 1,029,349 why the Shanghai real estate market is so ridiculously inflated. With 47 square meter, semi-serviced studio apartments at Shanghai Centre going for $2,300 a month, it's no wonder Shanghai consistently manages to rank as one of the most expensive cities in the world ... all with the help of clueless foreign companies throwing piles of money at employee housing. According to the story: more ›

Batman Begins has already begun for most of the world -- including Hong Kong and Taiwan -- and, actually, it's already arrived in Shanghai, too (thanks to some guy with a camcorder). But you may want to hold off on watching your pirated DVD just yet, because the movie of the summer is actually going to open in Mainland China this summer. In just six days to be exact. Batman Begins opens in Shanghai on June 29. Yes, it's a full two weeks later than most of our friends beyond our borders -- but it is two weeks earlier than much of Scandanavia and Eastern Europe. Ha! Take that Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. And poor Ukraine has to wait until August 4. more ›