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Oh heavens, we'd like to meet the fashionista for whom these would be a must-have item. It's not that we're surprised that Louis Vuitton has dabbled in miscellanea - we know they've produced dice, cards and even phones (yes, and not the shanzhai ones we've seen in the shadier tech malls) - it's more that the types of girls we know who love Louis Vuitton don't really sustain themselves on much else. All the better, we suppose, for these chopsticks - at 450 U.S. dollars a pair, you probably shouldn't be using them to eat anyway. Source:Sina

Themed Tours are a great way to see Shanghai from a different angle. Last year Shanghai Disappearing Corners organized an epic 12-hour Hudec Architecture Tour (follow in their footsteps here), and this year, from April 16-20, the Shanghai Spring Art Salon will be running an RMB 150, 8-hour "Art Journey" tour to take you around the city's most notable galleries and museums. And of course, there's also always Jewish Shanghai, which will give you a look into a completely different side of the city's history.

Forget coming to Shanghai to pick up a cheap knock-off handbag, the latest fashion is for middle-class Chinese to head to the UK to pick up the real thing at knock-down prices.

UPDATE: The pigs have been banned from the art show.

This sounds like a joke, but it's absolutely true.

Gosh. With the third allegation of hacking by the Chinese military into government computers in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom surfacing within two weeks, the guys at the Foreign Ministry have been kept busy! Fons Tuinstra points to past cases of bored teenagers who have successfully hacked into other governments and surmised that the German government could not have said that they had an issue with millions of bored Chinese teenagers! Richard Spencer made the erudite argument that if the "US and other western governments are busy infiltrating the computer systems of foreign governments... it is disingenuous to complain too vigorously when those same foreign governments become good at doing it back". Hmm...

This is a little old, but we have a feeling many of you haven't seen it yet. From what we have read and seen (front row last month at Yunfeng Theater) of ?uestlove, drummer for The Roots, we always thought the man also known as Ahmir-Khalib Thompson would be a pretty cool guy to hang out with. And then someone told us to check out his blog on MySpace and now our new goal in life is get invited to one of ?uestlove's cookouts should we ever leave Shanghai and move back to rockin' Conshohocken. His blog is an entertaining and honest glimpse into the life of a celebrity, although it seems as though he's not really sure if he feels like a celebrity yet.

As 2006 ends and 2007 begins, the -ists look back not at the past week, but at the past year. So here it is, your Best of 2006 Spectacular. And from all of us at the -ists, happy New Year!

We've got one in our closet. Should we post it on TaoBao?

In this week's edition of "Shanghaiist Trashes the Media" we have an article from the Sydney Morning Herald. Here's the premise:

We can think of many locations in Shanghai, and certainly China at large, where hand sanitizer dispensers would be quite useful. Plaza 66, where we spotted this one this morning, is not one of them. We've never seen a hand sanitizer dispenser like this before ... anywhere. People tell us that some hospitals in the US have them now, and come to think of it, Plaza 66 does give off a similarly sterile vibe. It is nice to know, however, we can finally browse our Louis Vuitton and Bvlgari bacteria free. The dispensers would probably serve more purpose outside Plaza 66 -- we saw a guy let loose an impressive snot rocket near Cartier yesterday. It's scenes like that that make us wary of shaking hands.

A new era is dawning in the perennial struggle against knockoffs of designer brands. Louis Vuitton has won a lawsuit against a Beijing department store that turned a blind eye while fakes of the luxury brand were being sold inside. And now Sina reports that Chinese travelers on tour groups headed to Europe from Shanghai cannot bring or carry-on with them any counterfeit or knockoff goods, else it's early Christmas for the customs officials in Europe. From what we've heard this is not especially directed at groups coming out of Shanghai, but perhaps they're cracking down a little harder on Shanghai, since more than 41 million people pass through Shanghai's two airports, making it the busiest airport city in China. On the other hand, let it be known that even as we find ourselves awash in a sea of counterfeit goods, there are still those who know the value of the real thing -- like the person that shelled out $20 million US dollars for a genuine Song dynasty vase.

Creating a middle ground between the Qipu Lu market and the pricey brands of neighboring Plaza 66, Spanish retailer Zara opened its first Shanghai store last month on the ever fashionable Nanjing Xi Lu. By "middle ground" we mean that Zara patrons pretend they came over from Plaza 66 but dig through the racks like shoppers at Qipu Lu.

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi's tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city.

I, a married man, received this email from a reader the other day:

For all of you who are afraid of accidentally buying fake brand-name goods when all you really want is a pair of socks, this is your day. Having been to Xiangyang Market over the weekend, we heard from one of the “salesmen” that the yearly crackdown is going on as we speak and that it lasts until Wednesday.

Shanghaiist, like most Shanghai residents, enjoys munching on a little hairy crab during the autumn season. Last year alone, the city's hairy crab enthusiasts consumed some 50,000 tons of the tasty sea creature.

Vogue China has hit the newstands in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, two weeks in advance of its September launch date. In yet another volte-face from the international fashion bible, the much-speculated Gisele Bundchen cover was cancelled in favour of Western Australian gamine Gemma Ward, the 17-year-old veteran of 13 Vogue covers. Styled by French Vogue doyenne Carine Roitfeld and shot by renowned fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier in Shanghai, the gatefold cover features Ward in typical doe-eyed mode, flanked by five equally sultry Chinese models including Miss China 2003 Du Juan and Shanghainese beauty Wang Wenqin.

With its "E-mail From Shanghai: Return of the Bourgeois Dogs," TIME magazine points out one of thousands of examples that China today is nothing like it was 30 or 40 years ago -- many people own pet dogs, animals that were outlawed and slaughtered by Chairman Mao's Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. The fact that many Shanghainese own dogs (if that's what you choose to call these tiny creatures) is nothing new, and thanks to Taco Bell, Paris Hilton and -- we'd like to think, at least -- Triumph, little yippy pooches are all the rage the world over now. Hell, even future Hall of Famer Roger Clemens has one -- although he's not entirely sure why. "I guess it's trendy to have little dogs like this," Clemens said earlier this month at baseball's All-Star game.

That's China Daily's headline for this story, which they copied and pasted from its original source, U.S. News & World Report. The story, originally titled "The Shanghai High Life," is annoying and vapid and tells the story of Lily Wang, a "typical Shanghai yuppie." Or perhaps the author was trying to show that the life of a typical Shanghai yuppie is annoying and vapid?