This may come as a surprise for many, but the crazy-popular, females-only singing contest, 'Super Girl' (快乐女声), has been pulled off the air permanently after the show bid farewell with its finale last Friday!
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Plug pulled on Super Girl, androgynous girls now Super Sad
This Thursday: Erotic Fiction at Glamour Bar
That's Shanghai and H.A.L. Publishing teamed up last month to hold Shanghai's first ever erotic fiction contest! (Devastated you missed your chance to enter? There's always next year!) The finalists have been chosen, and they will be gathering at Glamour Bar this Thursday at 8pm to read their works and let you all judge which you think is the steamiest (see our calendar for details.)
Global Times: International Beauty Contests are corrupt and shady
One participant in a Beijing-advertised Shanxi Province "international beauty pageant," has recounted her experiences to the Global Times in gripping expose filled with pretty girls, mid-level official ogglers and less pay than they originally thought - though 4000RMB for 11 days of sitting around isn't that bad, I suppose.
Miss Laowai fights breast cancer
Remember that beauty pageant/talent show for foreigners, Miss Laowai China? Well, it looks as if it wasn't a hoax after all: they've already got a whopping 14 candidates already, paired down from sixty applicants (our inside sources say that two are from Shanghai!). But better than that, they've also got an agenda: to fight breast cancer! With pamphlets!
Earnshaw Books: Book launches, a Beijing Shanghai debate, and poetry
Earnshaw Books will host an evening of performance to celebrate this month's release of two new titles - The Peace Correspondent by Garry Marchant and China Rhymes by Shamus A'Rabbitt, featuring a new foreword by Andrew Chubb.
Meiwenti Film Contest screening 12 short films on Saturday
Did we ever tell you how much we love Meiwenti Productions or Juan Vargas' slapstick, pervy sense of humor? We were there for the epic Swat Chicks set in sci-fi Shanghai. We walked out thinking WTF!!! (but in a good way). And we giggled and guffawed through last year's Short Erotic Film Awards.
You could open for Ghostface Killah @ Dream Factory
We remember how psyched we were when we first got our hands on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), so we're absolutely thrilled at this piece of news: Ghostface Killah is coming to Shanghai on June 14 (after stopping over in Beijing the day before)! And even better, he wants local talent to share his bill with him. So if you're an MC or DJ or singer with aspirations to open for one of the biggest acts in hip hop, head to the Douban/Splitworks contest site. Competition begins on May 14 and will end on June 9.
And the winner is...
...@samgaskin, for his hilarious (and kind of sexy!) tweet: "I’d buy Natalie Portman 2 tattoos. On her left thigh RITZ & her right CARLTON but I’d use retroactive ink so they’re in Closer" as an answer to Ctrip's question: If we gave you 1,000 RMB to spend, what would you do to show the world your appreciation to the Ritz Carlton for your amazing free stay? We knew that movie was good for something! Congrats, and enjoy your free weekend stay at the Portman Ritz Carlton's sweet Club Executive Suite (worth around 15,000RMB). And thank you Ctrip!
Shanghaiist is judging you (on behalf of Ctrip)
Ctrip is hosting a Twitter competition to give away the sweet prize of weekend stay at the Portman Ritz Carlton’s Club Executive Suite (worth around 15,000RMB) and guess who's the guest judge? Everybody's favorite city blog - that's right, us (and don't you try to tell us differently). All you have to do to possibly win your stay at the Ritz is to answer this question from Ctrip: "If we gave you 1,000 RMB to spend, what would you do to show the world your appreciation to the Ritz Carlton for your amazing free stay?" as awesomely as possible. It can be funny, it can be touching, it can be plain weird - just Twitter Ctrip something 140 characters long that will make our eyes pop. (While you are at it, follow us on Twitter, too.)
Pepsi sponsoring China "Battle of the Bands" contest
Looks like Pepsi Co.'s bringing that old tradition of “Battle of the Bands” to China in a big way - the soft drink maker is hosting a mega reality show and its inviting all Chinese “underground” rock bands to participate.
Week Around the -Ists
- Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye.
- Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city's only English-language paper.
Budding directors look here
The guys from Meiwenti Productions are back with the 6th instalment of their Shanghai Short Film Contest to be held in three years. So budding directors, start getting out your lights and cameras and start shooting. The deadline for submissions is November 25 and the awards ceremony will be on December 8 at a yet-to-be-disclosed location. And... since "6" is the devil's number, the organisers have decided that this will be a horror-only fest. Looks like some people haven't had enough of Halloween!
And the biggest fan of Chinese airlines is...
Okay, Shanghaiist has got several hundred blogs on his RSS that he scans through everyday. Some things scream at us, others are quickly forgotten and yet others are hidden in some corner of our brain for (mostly useless) information ready to be used at some future point in time. There are all these bloggers that you've never met personally that you can form an impression of only after a long period of reading their blogs. You're reading them every single day, and sometimes it almost feels as though they're your friend, even though you don't really know them. It's most surreal.
Vault and Volar bartenders do us proud!
Our Shanghai champions that went to the finals of the Cocktail World Cup held in Queenstown, New Zealand, have come back and done us proud! Unshaken by an itinerary that included some really extreme cocktail shaking via bungy-jumping, on top of a mountain and on a jet boat, Cross from Vault and Alex from Volar (together with Johnsen from Aria in Beijing) emerged fourth after Teams Vegas, New Zealand and England. Okay, so they weren't tops but it appears they did manage to wow some of the biggest mixologists around like New York cocktail king Dale DeGroff.
Today's Links: Mistress revolt, Thomas Friedman and the AIDS epidemic
The emergence of China as a commercial superpower is, by some way, the most important economic phenomenon of our time. In the last few years, analysts of the global economy have had to rewrite their computer models and recalibrate their slide rules to cope with the People's Republic.
Did they really say that?: Smart folks from Shanghai Daily, Hainan Airlines and the Wall Street Journal
For too long, many domestic TV entertainment channels have profaned music and the notion of competition by giving top honors to tomboys or sissy boys for being what they are - boyish girls and feminine boys - NOT for what or how they sing. The realm of music (which if not sacred should at least require some talent) suffered most when Li Yuchun, a tomboy whose voice was the weakest of all the finalists in a national singing contest in 2005, walked away with the "Super Girl" championship. Shi Yang, a boy who dances like a young woman, became a hot idol during the "My Show" contest in Shanghai last year.
Dead: Shanghai housing activist Chen Xiaoming
In a report just released an hour ago, Reuters tells us that Shanghai housing rights activist, Chen Xiaoming, who was one of seven Chinese activists awarded the 2006 Housing Rights Defender Award by the Geneva-based Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions, "has died hours after he was released on medical parole".
Win tickets to see the Go! Team this Saturday!
Well we told you that the Go! Team was going to come, and it looks like they'll be in town this Saturday! And you, our privileged readership, get the chance to win TWO free tickets to watch them, LIVE at Absolute House! Just leave us your real name, email and mobile number (so we can contact you if you win), and the lucky winner will be notified by email by Friday.
Countdown to the 34th Miss Bikini International Contest
Shanghai is fast becoming George Costanza’s dream city. First, there is a sandwich craze that is sweeping through town and now the 34th Annual Miss Bikini International Pageant is being hosted by our fair city. Yesterday at Taipingqiao Lake in Xintiandi, there was a promotion for the festival that included Julia Liptakova, last year’s winner and Yang Lei, the runner up.
Click here for info and entry forms!
Will the Great Wall be one of the New Seven Wonders of the World?
2200 years is a long time to get around renewing anything, but we say better late than never. Forget the seven wonders of the ancient world, it's time, in the 21st century, to let the people of the 42nd century know what we consider to be the seven wonders of the world. The Great Wall of China is one of the top 10 finalists:
According to the most recently published data, on May 7, the top 10 were the Great Wall of China, the Acropolis in Greece, the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome, the Eiffel tower in Paris, the Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, the statues on Easter Island, Britain's Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal in India.more ›
Today's Links: Clocks, hacks and open race tracks
"If you can’t find a taxi driver whose political views match those of your readers, then just make one up. Call him Mr. Wang, inform your public that he only earns a hundred dollars a month, and they’ll believe any old crap you write."
"Focus instead on the fact that every time Jay Yang has taken charge of Yahoo!'s China strategy in the past, the results have been, well, considerably less than stellar."
"The meeting, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, decided to cover all needy people in rural areas across the country under the allowance program, including the aged, the disabled and those who are unable to work."
"With visions of the New York Stock Exchange dancing in our heads, many of us expected the Shanghai exchange to be an exciting place to visit and observe live trading. But when we were shown into the large on-site trading room ... it was eerily silent."
"In one of the most notable trade deals of the Bush administration, U.S. airlines got the OK Wednesday to ramp up service to China in unprecedented levels... The number of daily passenger flights between the US and China will more than double by 2012."
"News Corporation's Chinese version of its social networking site (SNS) MySpace China (Myspace.cn) recently spent one million Yuan to sign the Back Dorm Boys as spokesmen for the website, reports Donews quoting a rumor."
"Asian markets were marginally in red today morning led by China's Shanghai index following a warning from the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that the gains in the Chinese market were unsustainable."
"Chinese portal Sina.com, which has one of the "good," officially sanctioned video clip websites, is now holding a massive video blog 播客 contest which will end on July 15th."
"Shanghai's international motor racing circuit said yesterday that it will open the track for the first time to private cars for free on June 9 and June 10. But the test driving will be limited to Volkswagen sedan owners."
"Asia's tallest clock tower will fall silent from June 1 while it undergoes a four-month renovation program, the first comprehensive face-lift it has had since it first began to chime eight decades ago." Custom's House.
"The car ... caught the attention of police when it was doing 186 km per hour on the expressway at 10am. When it passed a charge window at the Nanxun exit in Zhejiang Province, data showed the car spent only 19 min to cover 84 km."
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Wuhan Graduate Fashion Week dazzles attendants
Wuhan Science & Technology Institute recently co-sponsored a Graduate Fashion Week in the city to showcase the talents of some 450 graduate students from all around China. Likely making this event the first major level graduate fashion week in China.
Destination: Jiangnan Shipbuilding Museum
The back cover of yesterday's Xinmin Evening News featured the photograph to the right accompanied by an article centered on Mr Ding, a worker who has been employed at Shanghai historic Jiangnan Shipyard for 42 years. The reason that the photographer wrote the article is because he finally got the chance, through a photography contest, to tour the limited-access factory that was founded in 1856. And the reason that the newspaper published the article is that the factory is set to be moved to a new location; the buildings are being repurposed to serve as logistics, administration and public service bases, and supermarkets for the 2010 World Expo Park.
Today's Links: St. Lucia, mistresses and p0rn
"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."
A survey found that the standard of living of migrant workers isonly about one half of that of city residents.
"The police officer's actions in firing his revolver in the air sparked further fierce clashes with protesters and was attacked by critics as heavy-handed and an affront to freedom of expression."
"St. Lucia indicated last week that if it resumed relations with Taipei, it would still want to be friends with Beijing. The Chinese Embassy sent a rebuff on Friday, saying that China does not accept 'double recognition.'"
"With no more investment than a computer and a taste for taking risks, several dozen Webbased investigative journalists have set up sites and started advertising their willingness—for a price—to look into scandals that traditional reporters cannot tou
"Authorities believe Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen, took thousands of pages of documents from his defense contractor employer, Power Paragon of Anaheim, and gave them to his brother, who passed them along to Chinese authorities over a number of years."
"...A much larger inheritance battle has transfixed Hong Kong residents: a will purported to have been written by one of the world's wealthiest women, Nina Wang, leaving her feng shui adviser an estate estimated at more than $3 billion."
"From June 1 any official found to be keeping a mistress will face dismissal. Government officials, who are usually men, frequently socialise in the evening as part of their job. "
"A bear riding a bicycle is chased by his trainer during an animal performance for the Chinese May Day holidays at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park."
"Colonial-era war graves in Hong Kong have been left riddled with schoolboy spelling errors, including China spelt Cihna and Hong Kong spelt Honc Honc after a renovation project, a news report said on Wednesday."
"Danshui Lu is so warmly old school urban living, it begs the question: what bad road is life taking us down when we forgo this type of community living for an overly stylized, space wasting, luxury flat on the 27 floor of some soulless concrete tower?"
"Chinese police have received more than 13,000 reports about pornographic material on the internet since the nation launched a campaign to restrict the spread of online pornography on April 12." Only 13,000?
"The comment was among insights Yang shared with more than 1,000 Chinese and US technology entrepreneurs gathered in the California city of Santa Clara to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by the meteoric growth of China's economy."
"Tourists disgusted by stinking toilets at Chinese tourist sites or even angrier because they can't locate it are in for a pleasant surprise in east China - a 'restroom revolution' is taking shape before their eyes and noses."
"Chinese netizens spend ten times more money on the internet than people in developed countries. A World Bank report ... reports Chinese netizens spend an average of 83.5 yuan on the internet every month, more than 10 percent of their monthly income."
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Browse bevy of bikini babes, bring boatloads of bucks
Shanghaiist has a lot of guys on the staff (for a reason we just can't fathom — we really want more female contributors). So, naturally, a tip posted in our Shanghaiist Forums about Shanghai playing host to an International "Miss Bikini" Competition caught our attention.
Cartooning for the environment
While browsing Digg for no reason in particular, we discovered something that appeals to two of our great loves, namely the environment and dodgy drawing. Yes, combined they form a cartoon competition aimed to promote environmental issues in China. It is only open to university students, and entries close on the 20th of May 2007. The winners will be announced on June 5th, and will receive cash prizes and the always-prized 'certificates'. You can learn more about the event, aptly-titled the 2007 University Cartoon Contest on Environmental Protection, via the China Daily website.
Live Music This Weekend: She-Ras, SUBS and Super-Fans
We'll keep this quick. It's beautiful outside and half-price beers await.
Today's Links: Sewage, cyborg pigeons and dead pigs
"A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday."
"A private company in Anyang, Henan Province in China asks applicants whether they are filial, honest and kind before hiring them. This is the first in the central province to ask about applicants’ ethics during recruitment interviews."
"278 cities in China do not have sewage treatment plants, according to a report recently released by Research and Markets on the state of the China Sewage Treatment Industry."
"China's broadcasting authority has decided to impose a new time limit to some reality pop contests like "Super Girl", "My Hero" and "Dream China". The authority demanded such TV-propped contest run for no more than two and a half months."
"Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down."
"China's communist leaders have no plans to allow democracy in the near future because they must focus on economic development before political reform, Premier Wen Jiabao wrote in a newspaper article yesterday."
"The coastal city's once ailing power supply system has been vulnerable to typhoons and thunderstorms, and been strained by rapid economic growth and infrastructure development. But the Shanghai Electric Power Co said it had finally built a power blackout restart system after years of research and development."
"The Xinguo Lu-Tai'an Lu area is a clean, quite neighborhood with actually a low-level of traffic. The problem is that a high percentage of drivers moving east and west on Tai'an Road just pay absolutely no attention to the stop signs on either side of Xinguo Road."
"Tor is a toolset developed by a non-profit team that helps you circumvent Internet censorship and increases your privacy and security as you surf the web. ... The Tor team emphasizes that Tor is not 100% secure and nor is any other tool."
"A violent dispute broke out at Jing'an Temple on Sunday, when a Mercedes-Benz driver tried to barge through the temple gates and allegedly bit a pilgrim who protested at her actions."
"Street vendors may escape the restrictions on their activities imposed by Shanghai's urban management office if they obtain the permission of residents who live near their stalls to stay in business."
"On the 18th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the site of Denghai's Great Pig Contest is quite a spectacle. All one can see is over 500 flayed-open fat pigs, each spread on a wooden frame about 1 meter in height."
"When these buildings went up in the 1920s and '30s, a great deal of money and thought went into creating a beautiful city. Since then, so many new skyscrapers have gone up haphazardly without any aesthetic plan. I just want to show those in power how things could be."
"A legal source told Reuters on Monday that Google was trying to buy the Internet domain name www.gmail.cn, which is run by Beijing-based ISM Technologies."
"If you are looking for English language timetable information for railways in China you have come to the right place! I publish both full and Quick Reference timetables - click for details."
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Today's Links: Mozilla, Shanghai F1 and crazy Beijingers
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