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Timezone8 Bookstore: 50% clearance sale on all items

Good English-language books are hard to come by in Shanghai, with Garden Bookstore and Charterhouse Booktrader standing out as the only establishments with decent selections. Seekers of specialty and international art and design-related titles take note--Timezone8 Bookstore in the M50 art complex on MoGanShan Rd is having an overstock clearance sale on all titles except magazines, Chinese-language, and consignment titles. The sale ends Friday, August 24th, so get there fast to splurge on all those...

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By Liana Chang in , on August 20, 2007 10:43 AM

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Today's Links: Mr. Mom, sturgeon and fake wine


  • Have China Scholars All Been Bought?

    "Academics who study China, which includes the author, habitually please the Chinese Communist Party, sometimes consciously, and often unconsciously. "



  • Cartoon police to 'patrol' all Web sites in China

    "China plans to expand its use of animated police figures into a virtual force symbolizing the government's monitoring of all major Web sites and online forums, state media said Saturday."



  • Eating Human Fetuses in China

    "The story was about some mainlanders believing that eating human fetuses can improve looks and heal diseases, and therefore they purchase dead fetuses from hospitals."



  • Nailing nail houses

    "So let's call this nail house what it really is: blackmail."



  • China's Future: Shanghai Or Beijing?

    "Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes Magazine is in China right now and blogging on it. In Karlgaard's most recent post, he asks whether Shanghai or Beijing are China's future in a post, appropriately entitled, 'China's Future: Shanghai Or Beijing?'"



  • Beijing Olympics tickets scramble begins

    "Nearly 60 percent of saleable tickets will be reserved for residents of China, while the rest of the world will get 25 percent, said Rong Jun, director of the organising committee's ticketing department."



  • Will sturgeon echo dolphin tragedy in Yangtze River?

    "Severe pollution in the Yangtze River is threatening the existence of the Chinese sturgeon, or Acipenser sinensis, an anadromous fish that has lived on the earth for more than 140 million years."



  • Video sharing sites going down the Youtube?

    "However, there is something about China's video sharing sites that makes them much more interesting than their American counterparts: broadcast TV in China is really boring."



  • 'No Weirdness' for China's 'Idol' Series

    "Tears, wild hair and unhealthy songs are banned when China's latest version of "American Idol" goes on the air next month."



  • Penguin Books Ltd - FORWARD-MOVING CITIES

    "Shanghai, China: In its relentless rush into capitalism and modernity, China's second city is currently exploding in every aspect."



  • Greg Girard Phantom Shanghai

    "Phantom Shanghai is a spectacular look at a Shanghai that won't survive the vision the country has for itself."


  • Full-time dads not rare in Shanghai

    "Children in more than 40 percent of families with one full-time parent are looked after by house husbands, a survey conducted by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences suggests."



  • Photos of Tudou.com Second Anniversary Party

    We apologize to the guy we hit in the head while we were playing Wii tennis.



  • Some insight into a Shanghai subway driver's job

    "Pay starts at a measly RMB 2000 a month, and can rise up to about a base of RMB 2500 plus bonuses for kilometers driven. Take-home after tax for the year is about RMB 38,000 (USD 4,900). Benefits are pretty good, though."



  • Paint problems

    "More than half of paint products available for sale in the city have failed quality tests in recent random checks by the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration."



  • China's Yangtze River Extensively Polluted - Study

    "China's Three Gorges Dam reservoir has been fouled by pesticides, fertilizers and sewage, and more than 600 kilometres of the Yangtze river are critically polluted, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, citing a report."



  • Avoid Hong Qiao Airport on Friday Night

    "Everyone, if you travel to Shanghai, definitely avoid Hong Qiao Airport on Friday night. Never ever think of landing in Hong Qiao on Friday night. There is a simple reason for that - there is just no taxi that can help you get out of the airport."



  • China: More than just Shanghai and Beijing

    "Now that China's showcase megacities are experiencing rising costs and fierce competition both in most sectors, foreign investors are slowly waking up to the fact that there are other cities in China besides Shanghai and Beijing."



  • More Than a Half Fake Wine and Fake Overseas Wine Invaded Shanghai Market

    "The investigated data from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences presented that more than a half wine and overseas wines in Shanghai market were fake." So then what is it?



  • Shanghai tops China's 2006 online shopping list

    "The report said Shanghai's online consumers totaled 1.76 million last year, accounting for 34.6 percent of local Netizens, with Beijing following by 29.2 percent."


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    By Dan Washburn in on April 17, 2007 1:05 AM

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    Photography: Downtown and Urban Harmony

    Canadian born photographer Greg Girard has been shooting in Asia for quite a while and in Shanghai for the last six years. Some of the fruits of his labors were on display at the opening of his Studio Rouge show Downtown on Sunday. Much of Girard's work focuses on homes. Many of the pictures at the show were exteriors of run-down, slated-for-destruction buildings. Often shot at dusk or at night, the very studiously composed shots show an incredible amount of detail, things you see all the time but perhaps never notice.

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    By Peijin Chen in on May 15, 2006 5:26 PM

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    Photo Exhibition: Becoming Shanghai

    Shanghaiist recently headed over to the Benetton Building to check out a photo exhibition entitled Becoming Shanghai, Three Memories of a City's Transformation (作为上海，一个城市变化的三种记忆), featuring the work of three photographers -- Greg Girard, Fritz Hoffman and Jan Siefke. Greg Girard's preface to the exhibition states :

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    By Peijin Chen in on September 6, 2005 5:41 PM

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