Starting in 2013, New York University in Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) will begin enrolling students on its Lujiazui campus. According to Xinhua, it will be the first university jointly operated between China and the United States. more ›

In a bid to boost the capital's blood supplies, Beijing Municipal Health Bureau has announced that the amount of blood university students donate will affect their academic grades. Supplies have been critically low since last winter, partially due to public mistrust caused by the Guo Meimei scandal. more ›

Yao Ming showed up to report for class at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Minhang district today, and had the misfortune of getting his picture taken while standing next to a Buick minivan. more ›

A new study looking at the Overseas Chinese experience edited by Fujian's Huaqiao University (华侨大学) claims that less than a third of Chinese students who've studied abroad since 1978 eventually return to China. From 1978 to 2009, only 497,400 students out of the 1.62 million who've left have made their way back to China. The new findings are in line with the trend of everyone and their corrupt fifth uncle wanting to get out of China, which leads us to suspect that for the majority of Chinese, the true meaning of the Chinese Dream is to simply find a way to leave. more ›

Because of more overseas competition and a drop in birth rates during the 90s, Chinese universities have become a little feistier in persuading students to apply. It comes as no surprise then that a fiery rivalry is brewing between two of Shanghai’s biggest colleges over student enrollment. more ›

Tired of studying/dormmates/life in general? Feeling headachy after a 20-hour marathon Warcraft quest? If you're a student at Anhui University, then worry not, for help has arrived. more ›

Last week Peking University sparked heated debate when it announced a new reeducation'consultation' program targeting, among troubled students, those "with radical thoughts." The university of course claims to be operating in the interest of the students, but the policy has resulted in an storm of criticism online and off, many drawing the all-too-obvious comparisons to Orwellian thought police and the Cultural Revolution. Yesterday, China Daily reported that university officials have now "delayed its introduction to allow more time for further discussion." more ›

Proof that Chinese college students do something other than study day in and day out. A humorous peek into university dorm life: in this video, a few roommates band together for a rousing performance of Yellow River Cantata (黄河大合唱), a patriotic 1939 army rally song. Mad props to the toothbrush-waving conductor and stay with the video until 1:23 because one of the guys gets so caught up in the music he falls out of his bunk. more ›

Beijing University, the bastion of academic excellence, has the cutest proctor we've ever seen: Academia Cat! A student on Beida's forums posted a topic on "Beida's most respectable cat," who apparently enrolled in 2004, and has been sleeping on student's desks and catwalking on teacher's podiums ever since. Apparently, Academia cat enjoys staring for long periods at people, and listening to lectures on Thoreau's Transcendentalism. Adorable! Source: Sina more ›

It's tough being a student in China. In addition to all the regular adolescent troubles, like being bullied by your classmates and potentially your teacher, you've also got to worry about getting into college. And the college entrance exam is no easy task: the gaokao can make or break your entire future, depending on how far down the line of causality you want to follow it. Students will do anything to get good marks: cheating is rampant, and intensive study camps are a more ›

This is either incredibly genius or incredibly desperate, but Zhang Li, a college student in Hubei province, has opened up a web store on Taobao to sell her "spare time". more ›

What would you do if you paid a shitload of money to study at some college, thinking it would legit and all, only to be told that your diploma would not be recognised after all? We don't know about you, but we would definitely riot. Well, that's what some civilian students at the Hefei PLA Artillery Academy did a few days back. And it turned out to be a very bloody incident. Iron doors were... more ›

Scene from HiPiHi.com from Torley. more ›

DONGPING ROAD: DOOMED OR REDISCOVERED? As some readers may know, the strip of Dongping Road on the south side from Hengshan to Yueyang Roads is leased to the bars, restaurants, tailors etc by the music college behind them. Most of the leases are coming up for renewal over the next 2-12 months.There has been some concern that the music college may decide to reclaim their land for their own expansion purposes, rather than renew the... more ›

Lots of news from the House of Blues and Jazz in Shanghai: The latest band featured there wraps up their final few weeks at this revered and relatively long-lived jazz venue; also the club gets ready to move to its new digs over at the bund. Theo Croker and band The current band at the House of Blues and Jazz has been there already for many weeks, and they're doing great. It's a dynamic group... more ›

Forgive us, but we enjoy watching a game of American football every now and then (yes, even after that ugly display in London). Last year, we got in the habit of watching the NFL's Sunday and Monday night games on Monday and Tuesday morning here in Shanghai while we answered emails, fed the dogs and did other important things (we watched on ESPN Asia via our Filipino satellite system). Right now, for example, we'd be... more ›

There isn't a live music update this week, but it's art shows galore TONIGHT. Three picks that aren't in your conventional Moganshan Lu / Taikang Lu destinations. more ›

Yep, it's that time of year again: When Americans here try to explain to everyone else why we place so much importance on college athletics, namely football (the version where you don't use your feet too much). If you'd like to try to understand, or if you would just like to tell college footballs fans how silly you think they are in person, head out to Bubba's today. The first full Saturday of college football games is going on right now in the good ol' US of A. And Bubba's will have a couple selected games playing on tape delay on Sunday. Here's Bubba's email: more ›

Shanghai Oriental TV reports that with rising food prices in the city, many white collar workers are now flocking to university canteens to have their lunch, much to the ire of some of the students who now face longer queues during lunch hour. One student interviewed here in the clip here says that because the government subsidises school canteens, they should be kept for just students. A spokesperson for the management of the college canteen (there is no mention which campus this is) has said that school canteens are open to the public and if office workers and other people in the neighbourhood want to dine in there, there is nothing that they can do to stop them. Meanwhile, a China Daily report says that the price of set meals has gone up by as much as 1 to 3 yuan in some areas in Shanghai, and to beat the rising prices, office workers have turned to meal-sharing. Apparently, some have even set up BBS forums where users can find meal mates by posting invitations or answering them. more ›

This Youku video shows some women offering old men massage hanky-panky, all out in the open in an unnamed city, for as low as RMB5! The world's oldest profession is alive and well in China, and it is everywhere. more ›

PLUS brolly-toting Premier Wen and X-ray of Homer Simpson's brain! more ›

The China Daily translation staff has a case of the sillies! Earlier today it got a little "freaky." Now it's getting handy:

Donations can be in money, goods, blood, organs and bone marrow. But what happens when you mix heartfelt charity with a handful of self-gratification? Sperm donation.

I turned to several government departments, including the local police station and the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau Yangpu District branch, but no one would solve the problem. I know the residence problem will affect my daughter's whole life, so I still asked authorities for help, but I was shocked by the result. They suggested I send her to an orphanage.

Pioniers, a minor league team in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2007, he was signed by the Beijing Tigers of the China Baseball League (more info here). The CBL season already over, Kim recently answered some of our questions via email. more ›

The couple promised to pay Ma 100,000 yuan as reward for a child and 150,000 yuan if there were twins and they paid Ma 3000 yuan every month after they made the agreement. Ma tried artificial insemination in October 2006 but this failed and the doctors said she was probably not suitable. However the doctors said they would try once again later.

Harshing the mellows of college kids all over China, the Ministry of Education has announced a ban on off-campus student housing:

In a notice issued on Friday, the ministry instructed all universities to make the dormitories "another front for political and ideological education" to create "a good climate for the students' growth." more ›

In a very unusual letter (English translation here) addressed to the "bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful" in mainland China, Pope Benedict XVI (and he's got a cool Chinese name too - 教宗本笃十六世) has openly hoped for a renewal of relations between China and the Vatican. In the letter, the Pope noted that "there are signs, in China too, of the tendency towards materialism and hedonism, which are spreading from the big cities to the entire country" and called on Chinese believers to remember that "the new evangelization demands the proclamation of the Gospel to modern man, with a keen awareness that, just as during the first Christian millennium the Cross was planted in Europe and during the second in the American continent and in Africa, so during the third millennium a great harvest of faith will be reaped in the vast and vibrant Asian continent". more ›

With another London Graduate Fashion Week at an end as of Wednesday, June 6th, its time to look back at how some of China’s overseas hopefuls faired against their fellow students from around the world. Whether or not they will make an impact on the world of fashion in the future, only time will tell. more ›

If you’re like us, you probably have a habit of collecting crap and hoping that one day it might be worth something. If so, June 20th will be your lucky day. The People’s Bank of China is issuing a commemorative 300 RMB Olympic Coin. Even more exciting is the fact that they are only issuing the very Olympic number of 20008 (c’mon it’s only one zero off) of these 10cm in diameter coins. That is approximately 1 coin per 75,000 people in China. According to our college economics class, a small supply and a high demand should equal a very high price. more ›