As previous posts have suggested, there are hordes of people in Shanghai at the moment. Clearly, however, there aren’t too many Shanghaiist contributors around -- it's all quiet on the eastern front. more ›

Drew Taylor (aka KidPlastik) escaped Salt Lake City for a month last fall and visited China. He recorded some of his trip with a video camera, edited the results, set them to music and posted the whole thing on the internet for all to see. Ain't the internet grand! more ›

Mission accomplished for Danny Way more ›

Danny Way proved that he's the baddest man on a skateboard Saturday, jumping over the Great Wall not once, not twice, not thrice -- but four times. (He may have gone over more times after that, but the Chinese television broadcast we were watching ran out of time.) Why not quit after the first successful run, in which he simultaneously broke his own skateboarding world records for distance (79ft/24.07m) and unaided height out of a ramp (23.5ft/7.14m)? Because of a "grudge" against a quarter pipe. more ›

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). more ›