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We mentioned before that various videos are being submitted to Youku for inclusion in the upcoming Beijing College Student Film Festival's Short Films Awards when we highlighted Tina's Life in Shanghai a couple months ago. Now Kaiser Kuo's done everyone the favor of picking out some of his favorites - and lo and behold - one's about Shanghai. more ›

It seems that several of you readers have actually been around Dongjiadu/come across the Dongjiadu family that we pointed out this morning. In fact, one of you had even gone and photographed their protest. According to freelance journalist Remko Tanis, these nail house residents are the Wang family and they'd rather die than move out (with the compensation the city's planned for them): more ›

A couple days ago, we mentioned Dongjiadu, an old middle-class neighborhood just south of the Bund that's being razed over for... I'm not sure what to call it in Shanghai - urban renewal? Now a reader has written in to inform us that there's a nail house there. more ›

With the Expo in 33 days and counting, the pace of demolition, renovation, and renewal in this city has only continued its forward sprint. While cleaning up for the Expo has been the primary motivation behind the large-scale demolition of old buildings and neighborhoods during the past few years, many have simply fallen victim to Shanghai’s rapid pace of urbanization. Those of us who live here are pretty immune by now to the daily sounds of construction and the sight of historical structures and traditional longtangs being torn down to make way for gleaming new residential or commercial buildings... but it still hurts to see it happen so wantonly. more ›