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China's largest rock music event looks like it's taking a break from Beijing for the first time since its 1997 inception and moving to Zhenjiang.

Li Lianyu (李连玉), the Party Secretary of Pizhou (邳州) with a population of 1.6 million in Xuzhou city, Jiangsu Province returns home from the 17th Party Congress in Beijing and receives a hero's welcome. The local government puts together a grand ceremony with banners everywhere screaming "Welcome Secretary Li's Glorious Return From the 17th Party Congress." (h/t to CDT and A Floor Sweeping Monk)

Ooooh yeahhh, crab lovers rejoice for it is that time of the year again when Suzhou's Yangcheng Lake (阳澄湖) hairy crabs go on sale! Thank God the algae that bloomed in Lake Tai in Wuxi and Dianchi Lake in Kunming decided to spare the Yangcheng Lake so we can still have crab this year.

This group of women in Guangxi Province's Nanning (南宁) have just completed their state-sponsored training and received their certification as trained maternity matrons (月嫂), who according to our favourite English-Chinese dictionary, are maids -- usually married women who already have their own kids -- that are hired to take care of mothers and their newborns ("Chinese women traditionally are confined indoors for a month after delivering a baby on the grounds that they are particularly susceptible to various gynecological diseases in this period."). Apparently even the recruiting companies have all come waiting like vultures at the certification ceremony, and are paying as much as RMB2,800 per month for a mid-level maternity matron and RMB4,800 for a senior-level maternity matron. That's more than some white collar workers get!

Back in the late 1980s, we were of the opinion that the Oaktown (Oakland, California, USA) was a fetid, hopeless, de-industrialized, white-flight created shit-hole, but all of that was changed sometime around 1990 with the arrival of Oakland native MC Hammer onto the music scene. If America had gorged itself during a whole decade on the fashion excesses of pop stars, Hammer was like the long belch after the meal, but even if we had to squint and shield our eyes whenever MC Hammer was on MTV, before long, sparkle shirts, parachute pants, baggy suits, and spandex shorts with suspenders—standard issue Hammer wear—became firmly etched in American pop culture history, and in retrospect, we can say we are the better for it.

If ever there was a time for a Chinese version of Jerry Springer, it is now. Apparently, a dog has given birth to a very cat-like puppy in Jiangyan in Jiangsu Province. The People’s Daily Online writes that experts have attributed the puppy’s appearance due to a gene mutation and, it even barks like a puppy. Shanghaiist isn't one to fall for such a ruse, though. We want to know who the real father of the litter is. If you have any information as to what feline felon fathered this kittenuppy, contact us immediately!

The match signifies the dawn of a new era in Asian football, as the A-League side enter the Asian fray for the first time since Australia quit the Oceania confederation a year ago to join the Asian one.

We were leafing through the latest City Weekend* over breakfast this morning when we realized we forgot to tell you something very important: We love Southern Barbarian (南蛮子). It's a Yunnan restaurant that opened in the fall (we have mentioned it briefly twice before). It is easily one of our favorite restaurants in the city, Chinese or non-Chinese. The food is fantastic — tasty and plentiful — and it is cheap (especially when compared to another Yunnan restaurant that opened recently). An added bonus is that Feng Jianwen, the owner (yes, he's from Yunnan), is a lover of beer — the result is the best selection of bottled beers we have ever seen at a Chinese restaurant. There's Hoegaarden, Chimay, Coopers (Sparkling Ale and Best Extra Stout), Leffe and a bunch of others. They are priced reasonably, too. Hoegaardens are 28 kuai; Coopers are less than that. Or you can always just get a tall bottle of Suntory for 6 kuai — they have that, too.

It goes without saying that China is a country of great contrasts and irony, and we were reminded of that fact with regards to sex and sex education.

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China has lifted its ban on beef imported from the United States ... and that is perfect timing, because right now Shanghaiist doesn't feel like ever eating China-raised meat again. Why? We read this story, translated from the Chinese Broadcast News Network (Zhong Guang Xinwen Wang):

Remember when you misbehaved and your parents threatened to beat you senseless, send you to boot camp, or send you to Michael Jackson's ranch? Well, as soon as we read this article (in Chinese), all those memories came flooding back. This article from Southern Weekend is about the "Marching School", which is basically a school run like a military boot camp.

Shanghai's model worker Yao Ming has decided not to represent his hometown in the Chinese National Games, which begin this October in Jiangsu Province.

Just what in the name of Gabby Reece is going on beneath the Pearl Tower this week? They've trucked in 300 tons of sand and dumped it at the base of our city's signature structure -- and no, it's not for one of those God-awful "foam parties" (that doesn't happen until Saturday). It's not a giant ashtray either, although that no doubt would be quite popular considering the way Chinese tourists choke them down. Nope, this fake beach almost on the shores of the Huangpu is for the grandaddy of beach volleyball tournaments in all of China -- the 2005 China National Beach Volleyball Championships -- a marathon that began way back in April and included stops in seven Chinese cities, culminating with the Shanghai finals, which began Tuesday and end on Friday.

That's the headline China's state-run news service Xinhua used for this story, which says the average age Chinese urban youths lose their virginity is now 17.4, nine years younger than when their grandparents first did the nasty.