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Don't you feel cooler already? At least that’s how we felt when we saw the advertisement for the "Ice World" in Longhua Tourism City. Yes, we know we are very late on this — apparently Longhua's Ice World has been open since last May, but it’s in Longhua Toursim City, so forgive us (we don’t really go to tourist spots much in our hometown). Oh, and if you want to check this ice world out, you have about five days — it's some kind of traveling thing and its year in Shanghai is almost up. By chance, we saw an ad for it in the subway today.

Tickets to Longhua Pagoda (second from the right in the Shanghaiist logo) are RMB 100 and proceeds will go toward the pagoda's renovation, which hopefully won't be made more of a necessity by all the tourists. To that end people wearing high heels won't be allowed inside (which eliminates a large chunk of female Chinese tourists). Leave your lighters and knives (and children shorter than 1.4 meters) at home, too -- a lot of the pagoda is made of wood.

For a while, it seemed the days of exhibitions being shut down in Shanghai were long gone. Since Shanghaiist moved to the city four years ago, we had not witnessed any major crackdowns, although there have been a few minor incidents here and there. The cultural scene in the city took a step back, however, on Saturday when a massive exhibition at the new Creative Garden on Longhua Lu was shut down by the authorities.