China's Internet economy is booming. Last year, Internet gaming revenue grew by 73 percent to 654.6 Billon RMB. (source: People's Daily) Companies such as Shanda, The9 and TenCent have become huge businesses providing very popular MMORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games) such as World of Warcraft, Yulgang and Legend of Mir II to more than 30 million Chinese net users. However, the online gaming world is being put under increasing scrutiny and pressure by... more ›

Photo by Les Izmore taken from the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site. more ›

Hot on the heels of a slew of Chinese celebrities having their mobile phone numbers published on web, someone went and posted celebrities' photos from their government ID cards -- and, naturally, the China Daily has reprinted several of them for our perusal: more ›