Colour us excited! Jackie Chan (成龙) — the man who was the subject of the first post ever to be written on this blog — is going to have a museum named after him! Renovated from old factory buildings located out in the *sshole of nowhere in Shanghai's Putuo District, the museum will house props and costumes from Chan's movies, photos and other memorabilia. This makes him the world's second person to have a museum......

Film star Jackie Chan has donated RMB10million to help those in need following the earthquake in Sichuan province. Other celebrities have also dipped into their wallets. From CriEnglish: "Jackie Chan also sent his consolation to the quake victims and encouraged them to hold on as "people all over the country are with you," the star said. The One Foundation initiated by kungfu star Jet Li has made a donation of one million yuan and......

Despite some unfavorable reviews, Jackie Chan is currently riding high on the success of his mega-blockbuster Forbidden Kingdom. As such, many are overlooking his brilliant work currently gracing the international satellite television waves. But no longer. This clip comes from a recent ad campaign by the Hong Kong Travel Association (HKTA), a push to bring more attention to the city hosting the Olympic Games' ever-popular equestrian events that will no doubt help to revitalize the......

This self-orientalizing piece of crap has a few good moments. Since they are few and far between, we'll just tell you what they are. Li Bing Bing plays the white-haired witch, and has the best lines in the movie, like "all men are liars" (this line rendered in Chinese, as 天下男人都是騙子), and, as a retort to Liu Yifei's "I should have killed you, witch" Li Bingbing says something like "I'll kill you first, bitch!". We......

Think Rocky V, but during the Olympics. Jackie Chan, 54, will engage in some kind of fighting? boxing? kung fu? exhibition against Tszyu, 38, a welterweight boxer from Russia and former Olympian. However, as this is China's Olympics, we suspect that, like in the movies, Chan will triumph over the white man in the final, climactic scene. If he's in top form, he might be able to rescue some Ming vases and other priceless artifacts......

Ang Lee, in a recent trip to Vancouver BC, talks with the mayor and Vancouverites about a proposed bill that would deny tax money to filmmakers whose content does not reflect Canadian values. On a recent trip to LA, Lee was asked about how new "President" Ma Yingjiu (馬英九）of that province which has been, is, and always will be part of China, will affect the movie bidness there, to which he replied that this is......

Wong Kar-wai is celebrating the opening of his shit movie My Blueberry Nights in the US this Friday by selling some merchandise — most notably, $95 t-shirts, $50 posters, and $25 postcards. And if you want to thank him for ripping you off in person, you'll get your chance in New York at a fashion boutique store called Opening Ceremony, where Wong is going to be on Wednesday afternoon. We hope that someone tells him......

So you might have heard that Jackie Chan (成龙) recently went to Australia to bury his father, who died of cancer at the age of 93.Well, what you might not have known is that Jackie Chan's father Charlie, aka Fang Daolong, had a whole other family (Jackie's mother was his second wife) that he lost touch with and then had to leave behind in 1949. There was an article called "Enter the Parents" written a......

Master Kai Uwe Pel has been a fixture on the Shanghai Kung Fu scene for nearly six years, working at the Jing Wu school and the Long Wu International Kung Fu Centre before finally going it alone in 2006. He has spent more than 25 years in Chinese martial arts. He lived and worked in Hong Kong and then Singapore where he studied Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu. Pre-war Shanghai was the site of......

Steve Buscemi and Southern Barbarian owner Feng Jianwen (Credit: Southern Barbarian) Next time, Steve, stay for some Grandma's Mashed Potatoes. Trust us. It's not every day that a Golden Globe and Emmy award nominated actor shows up unexpectedly at the launch party for a small photo exhibit at a Yunnan restaurant in Shanghai, China, but that's what happened yesterday when Steve Buscemi stepped in from the rain to check out Ying Tang's "Balance" at......

Don't be too surprised if you're walking down Nanjing Lu next month and you see a bronze chariot rampaging down the street. War hasn't arrived. It's just one of the shoots for the Hollywood blockbuster The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor which stars Jet Li as Emperor Qin Shihuang, alongside Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame. We hear it's a massive production (like anything isn't in China), and they're......

Hot on the heels of the FIFA Women's World Cup, yet another international sporting event, right here in Shanghai. The Special Olympics will open on 2 Oct at the Shanghai Stadium and run all the way till 11 Oct. We hear from the organisers:Award-winning producer and director Don Mischer has created a spectacular Opening Ceremonies event to mark the official opening of the World Games. The event will include star-studded entertainment, the Parade of......

World Car Free Day, September 22 Ever thought of what you're doing to offset your carbon footprint? This Saturday, instead of driving your car or taking a taxi, why don't you try taking public transport, cycling or walking instead? Residents will be asked to avoid driving private cars within the Inner Ring Road, and while compliance is not mandatory, driving will be banned outright in some areas. Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), September 25 As the mercury......

Jackie Chan, China's most famous actor/singer/producer/cartoon character/matchmaker (whew!) finds himself one sino-franchise poorer this week, as government officials have blocked mainland distribution of his newest flick, Rush Hour 3. E! News reports: The official word on why the Brett Ratner-directed sequel won't be making it to the big screen is that the country has already imported too many American films this year for it to be a profitable acquisition, but some officials are attributing the......

While the rest of the world is wondering how George W. Bush will further fuck up Iraq and where Becks and Posh are going to settle in L.A., we came across a report about a concert event in Las Vegas: The two-day event — designed to serve as a showcase for Chinese bands in America and vice versa — will take place at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino Theatre of the Arts on February 13......

Beijing retailers told to mind their manners with customers or be found violation of the law.Beijing has opened what we believe to be China's first pitch-black restaurant—where diners eat in complete darkness and the staff use night vision goggles.300 new bao mu's are being trained for deployment during the Chinese New Year, when many of the city's bao mu's are heading home.Was it climage change that brought down the Tang dynasty?A Shanghai production of the......

A summary of what's in Shanghai's magazines This time around, SH/8 Days and City Weekend are in the crosshairs. And guys, we say this purely out of love: Y'allz need to step your web game up so that we can start linking to the articles themselves, rather than indulging our Wikipedia cravings. [Update: links have been added to the SH/8 Days write-up. Huzzah!] SH/8 Days: It’s an ad ad world in the October 13 issue......

The report (in Chinese) says that Yao turned down the role because director Brett Ratner asked him to play a bad guy, which would ruin the image of a good guy that he's worked to cultivate through the years. You might be thinking, as we are, how Yao could possibly be a villain. First of all, bad guys, no matter how bad-ass they are and no matter how many crooked cops they have under their......

Grainy images from Jackie Chan's "porn career."SH magazine staffers choose the "ugliest buildings in China." Doesn't appear they've seen much of China.In March, we told you about a "work in progress" documentary about "gold farmers" -- people in China who get paid to gather virtual assets for online gamers abroad. Well, Gold Farmers no longer appears to be a work in progress. Check out its website.More on Wal-Mart unions in China.Utne asks if China is......

Open a popular porn site in China, face life in prison.The Peace Hotel is an "ancient dwarf."What's wrong with Shanghai? Too much English!A new museum in Suzhou looks kind of cool. What will be in the museum? We're not sure.Martial arts actor Jet Li fell off a building while filming a fight sequence for his movie Fearless. Evidently the mishap occurred because the stunt man Li was fighting was "so scared of him." We didn't......

At least that’s what a clip on popular video sharing site Tudou.com claims. Shanghaiist, being the curious type, clicked over and took a gander. The 18-minute original short film is of course a spoof, a form made popular earlier in the year by The Steam Bun Massacre, a brilliant parody of the movie 无极/The Promise. The FIFA piece is a montage of movie clips (we’ve counted The Godfather, Forrest Gump, a few Jackie Chan flicks),......

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The phrase “ends at 8” sends us back to that Goa party we ended up at once. Unfortunately that phrase also came up this past weekend in regards to the Female Flower Fest at YYT. Now, we understand that it’s a long and dark walk from that warehouse to the street, but we hadn’t even finished our brisket by 8 pm! We did receive stories of some laowai proposing (like, really -- not just a......

There are some blogging contests currently going on that Shanghaiist readers might be interested in: Best China Blogs (which has monetary rewards), the Asia Blog Awards and China's First Annual Original Videolog Contest.If, like this local "amateur model", you plan on stealing 24 items from the Zara on Nanjing Xi Lu, don't forget to cut out the smaller security magnets hidden inside the items in addition to the larger more obvious ones.Jackie Chan, Nicole Kidman,......

This unhealthy obsession with movies is going to stop soon ... but first, we just have to tell you what we just heard. Jackie Chan and Jet Li, together, in a time-travel kung fu story? You best believe it: Based on a classic Chinese legend, the story follows a teenager who gets transported to ancient China after he steals a mystical staff from a New York pawnshop.The youngster enlists the help of a motley crew......

This story tells us that Shanghai's Madam Tussauds museum will open May 1 and feature 21 wax figures of "celebrities like Jackie Chan." And we always though Jackie was one of a kind. What other celebrities are like Jackie Chan, you ask? Here's a sampling: Princess DianaBill GatesDavid BeckhamTom CruiseAlbert EinsteinYang Liwei, astronautYang Zhengning, Nobel Prize winnerLiu Xiang, Olympic hurdling championYao MingAndy LauJay Chou These won't be boring wax figures just standing there looking all......

It's always fun to take a look at the videos tagged "Shanghai" over at YouTube. Seems like a lot more people using it nowadays. So, here are links to some that caught our eye recently. Above, you see "Wonderful Shanghai," a television commercial for Shanghai starring Yao Ming in almost every role. Wonderfully cheesy song plays throughout. Here are some others: Sleepless in Shanghai: This is our video. Uploaded this morning at around 4. Why......

Popular Chinese internet search engine Baidu.com recently announced the 10 most popular search queries for 2005, reports the Star Daily (via the Shanghai Daily China news blog). Here they are, in order of popularity (we think): MP3 超级女声 (TV sensation Super Voice Girls) 童话 ("Fairy Tale," a pop song by Malaysian singer Guang Liang) QQ (instant messaging software) 李宇春 (Li Yuchun, the winner of Super Voice Girls) 大长今 (Korean TV series Dae Jang Geum or......

Jackie Chan reportedly told The Times of India that "Asians should unite against American cinema." Chan, star of such American movies as Around the World in 80 Days, The Medallion, Shanghai Knights, The Tuxedo, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2 and Shanghai Noon, went on to say, "Why do we need to ape their culture. I see an Indian saying 'Yo Man!' but that's not what Asian are about." He added, "Cinema reflects culture and there......

It seems everyone's into Qin dynasty China action flicks these days. Jackie Chan's newest flick might be unique in that it belnds a modern story with costume drama. Jackie plays an archaeologist living in a swank boat house in the middle of some Hong Kong harbor who has recurring dreams of being a Qin dynasty general fiercely loyal to the Qin emperor. One of his missions is to bring home a Korean princess (played by......