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The observations by two veteran photographers of a rapidly changing Shanghai over ten-plus years should be reason enough to traipse over to Moganshan Road. Van der Hilst’s color Kodachrome works will allow us a glimpse into Shanghai on the brink of transformation in the early 1990s (good opportunity for some of us who had been in primary schools back then, too busy figuring out multiplication tables to notice) while French, the New York Times' Shanghai correspondent delves into the more recent past with his black-and-white documentation of life in Shanghai’s back alleys during the last five years.

China is a Democracy, But Not Copy of the West, by Zhu Jing of the Chinese Embassy in Nairobi for the East African Standard, [via A Glimpse of the World]:

China practises a unique democratic experience, which is beneficial, reasonable and fruitful because it suits the country and has stood the test of time.

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"A local education official who organised the song and dance performance, Kuang Li, locked herself in the toilet, keeping out children who suffocated, according to Chen's blog. Kuang was jailed for four years."

You likely know that access to the great China news resource China Digital Times is blocked in Mainland China. So, you may not know that on Monday they published an audio interview with Howard W. French, the New York Times bureau chief here in Shanghai. It's part of their ChinaCast series of podcasts, "short and informal conversations with journalists, business people, artists and others doing interesting work in China."

Danwei told us about The China Blog, a group blog by the China correspondents for TIME that launched this month. The writers are Simon Elegant (Beijing), Bill Powell (Shanghai), Austin Ramzy (Hong Kong) and Susan Jakes (Beijing). Looks like it could be a nice addition to the fold if they can keep posting on a regular basis.

We have told you about the photography of New York Times Shanghai bureau chief Howard W. French before. And now, there is more to report. Howard recently returned from Berlin, where he helped launch his "Disappearing Shanghai" photo exhibit at Zero Gallery. (So, yes -- in addition to writing for arguably the most respected newspaper in the world, he is also an accomplished photographer ... and he's fluent in like 17 different languages. Deal with it.)

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Perhaps soon we will be able to place some of French's photos on our coffee tables. From the Daily Shooter interview:

We didn't go to the Rolling Stones concert last night. And we have only heard from one person who did go, second hand at that. Here's the message we received today:

The Washington Post has an interesting story about the creative ways some Chinese internet users are fooling censors and managing to, vaguely at least, discuss the violent police crackdown in Dongzhou earlier this month. A forum post masked as a discussion about Lu Xun's 1926 essay "In Memory of Ms. Liu Hezhen" -- written in response to a Beijing massacre that year -- drew thousands of comments recently: