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View Larger Map Remember when Google's English-language map of Shanghai was, save for some groovy satellite pics, pretty much blank? Remember that? You should. It was like a week ago. Anyway, thanks to a tip on our Contribute Page, we learn that the map has gotten a makeover. To do this, looks like Google has teamed with MapABC, that same firm that does Google's Chinese maps and the same firm City Weekend is experimenting with......

Direct link here. Click around — there are some neat features (if you are into geeky maps and fire). NOTE: We couldn't get the embed code for the map to work, so you'll have to settle for a screenshot. Haven't had much luck embedding maps from Google China recently — anyone have any insight? Figured it out. But the map is a little wide for the space we have available. Screen cap after the......

Recently we were lucky enough to add a new guidebook to the collection: The Insider's Guide to Beijing (2008 Edition) brought to you courtesy of the nice people at Immersion Guides (affiliated with the unfortunately named That's BJ Magazine/website/thebeijinger.com). We have a lot of Chinese guidebooks, but we have yet to encounter one quite so thorough as this one. At just over 700 pages, it leaves no stone unturned*. Covering everything from buying art to......

The Crash Test Dummy Video Blog features videos of bike journeys around Shanghai. Recently they have been chewing over the same problem as Shanghaiist: Bought a good bike, Shanghai is great for cycling ... keep running into no-bike dead spots. Good for us, they have just released their first version of a Puxi cycle map. The map is a work in progress and all readers are invited to submit routes in the comments section. Routes......

Priceless: Inspired by the work of bloggers in Toronto and London I have created my own anagrammed map of the Shanghai Metro! So if you’ve ever fancied travelling from I’m a hot dashing dinosaur (Shanghai Indoor Stadium) to Thoroughly Hawaiian Satanists (Shanghai South Railway Station) to Drab Penguin (Nanpu Bridge) now is your chance! Check it out: Shanghai Metro anagram map Note for pedants: I used the common English name of the station as posted......

When Shanghai resident and blogger Jakob Montrasio posted this photo on our Contribute Page, we wondered exactly when he visited the Forbidden City, because the blue skies in the photo weren't in Beijing last week when we were there. Then we realized the photo was taken in Zhejiang Province — a place called Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) — where a seemingly life-size replica of the Forbidden City can be found (with a small mountain......

A few months ago, we informed you of the latest information about the 15th edition of CBS' Survivor: China, to be held...in China (surpise, surprise). In a few short weeks, the show will debut after filming its episodes during July and August. As the stentorian narrator in this early promo for the show says, "For the first time, a major American show goes behind the Great Wall to shoot entirely in China. It's a place......

Among the many things one can do to make China "lose face" in the international eye: 1. Distribute toxic playthings to small children the world around 2. Kidnap and enslave hundreds of your countrymen and their children and force them to work in subhuman conditions 3. Crop the edges off a map All three offensives have been committed in the last year, and all three were met with swift punishment. Granted, the map offenders have......

Gil Kim is a professional baseball player from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, which we are sure you all know is the home of Yuengling Lager (and is not too far from Bloomsburg, which we are sure you know is home to the Bloomsburg Fair). After graduating from Vanderbilt University, where he was "primarily a role player," Kim spent 2006 playing with the Omron Pioniers, a minor league team in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2007, he was signed by......

Two bits of transportation news from random sources: The Xinmin Evening Post reports that the Shanghai Pudong Airport Authority and the Shanghai Mapping Institute will be making free maps of the city available in special racks at the Pudong Airport starting this week, with plans to expand to Hongqiao Airport and the Shanghai Railway Station. The map is the standard Chinese map of Shanghai that you can buy for RMB 6 at bookstores throughout the......

The Shanghai Daily and local media report that a historic slaughterhouse located at 10 Shajing Rd in Shanghai's Hongkou district is set to open in July as a luxury shopping shopping center featuring "house jewelry and car shops". The old slaughterhouse, built in 1933, is famed for being one of three in the world with a unique octagonal architecture, and whose twisting passages, balconies and bridges have been a prized target for wily photographers who......

The back cover of yesterday's Xinmin Evening News featured the photograph to the right accompanied by an article centered on Mr Ding, a worker who has been employed at Shanghai historic Jiangnan Shipyard for 42 years. The reason that the photographer wrote the article is because he finally got the chance, through a photography contest, to tour the limited-access factory that was founded in 1856. And the reason that the newspaper published the article is......

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......

Shanghaiist contributor Micah has posted some information about the present and future of Wujiang Lu in the comments section of our post from yesterday. We thought they were worth highlighting. Comment No. 1: I've been reading some Chinese articles on this from Google News: Looks like, concretely, they're shutting down and "remodelling" the section between Taixing Rd, where the WB store is, and Shimen No 1 Rd, where the "real" Wujiang Rd starts. The rest......

Would you believe that we get emails fairly regularly from people looking for even the most basic information about the China Baseball League? We wrote a story about the pro league back in 2004, and it's a testament to how little English info about the league exists out there that it's still one of most widely read CBL sources on the internet (it helps that Wikipedia linked to it). And so we have people asking......

Shanghaiist reader Jonas writes: Interesting to note that road maps for China (incl. Taiwan) sits only on the google.cn server and not the google.com/ maps server. Hong Kong however is on world-side, and not on the China side. The country (minus HK) is still blank on the 'world' map. One country, two planets... Kind of reminds of being in Dandong, in Liaoning Province, on the North Korea border. So much life on the China side;......

We hinted at this several days ago, but we didn't say more because the story we found didn't include some crucial information (like a location). But yesterday a friend who works for ESPN.com forwarded us the event's press release, which you can read here. There we learn that "[m]ore than 200 of the world’s top action sports athletes from more than 20 countries and five continents will compete in the three-day event and feature multiple......

In a city not exactly synonymous with the word "culture," it's refreshing to find the ever-so-rare odd subculture existing, nay, possibly even thriving. Since the 1930s, companies like Hero and the Shanghai General Harmonica factory have been profitably churning out a product that draws little attention but fervent followers in Shanghai even today: the harmonica. Those factories are still producing for both import and export, while several websites have been set up to bring Chinese......

This interactive map "illustrates some of the most pressing water-related issues in China and how problems that originate upstream are inherited by those living downstream, even those living in other countries." So says the very comprehensive PBS website entitled China From the Inside, which accompanies the television network's four-episode series of the same name. If you have some time, it's definitely worth clicking around the site for a while. The site has another interactive sound......

We don't know honestly. We ride Shanghai's metro every day and have only used Beijing's a couple times back in 2004. Still, seeing Beijing ranked No. 9 (and Shanghai unranked) in this list of the top 11 underground transit systems in the world surprised us a bit — because all the China subway hype we hear is about Shanghai's fast-growing system (or maybe that's just because we live in Shanghai?). Here's what the list, from......

We're not sure when the beta version of Google maps for China came out, since we hardly ever use the Chinese version of Google . We saw that it had the little "new" tag affixed to it, and from some searches it seems that it was sometime in February, so not too long ago. This service, located at ditu.google.cn, has replaced Google Local, which was at bendi.google.cn. First off, there's a couple of big differences......

For those unfamiliar with Shanghai's history, the city was once a giant, stinking swamp. While some say things haven't changed much since then, others have noticed a bit of development going on. Given other coastal cities (on deltas) like New Orleans and Tokyo, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that Shanghai is sinking. Basically, the extracting of water from the moist soil of Shanghai is causing the land to subside so perhaps "sinking" isn't......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans for......

It's good to know the good members of the Shanghai police force are rolling up their sleeves and hitting the mean streets in an effort to protect us from all the ills of modern China ... like shops that sell bubble tea. From the Associated Press: A Shanghai tea house whose name translates roughly as "Frog Keeps a Mistress" has been deemed a threat to public morality and told to get a new moniker, local......

If you're new to Shanghai or still in that "testing the water" phase of living here, you should be well aware of Shanghai Daily's guide to living in Shanghai, called Live in Shanghai (previously mentioned here). Recently, the website added a new and useful section about shopping in Shanghai. Low on gift ideas and cash, Shanghaiist took a little dip in the danger zone by checking out the website's savvy new section. The new shopping......

We don't like to beg, but since Shanghai chef Christopher St. Cavish set out on his charity cross-China motorcycle ride two weeks OK, he has received not one donation. So, we're begging: PLEASE DONATE. Anything. All proceeds go to Hands on Shanghai's Rising Star Program, which helps pay for the education of the urban poor. Meanwhile, we at Shanghaiist are thinking of setting up another fund ... for Christopher. Looks like his trip to Qinghai......

After Shanghaiist learned from Shanghaiist that street names changes are in the works, we thought it appropriate to post about something we recently found at a Chinese bookstore: a series of maps of old Shanghai. The bookstore (Ji Feng in the Shaanxi Lu subway station) had maps from 1927, 1932, 1948, and 1956. Each map is printed on old-fashioned, yellowish paper and comes in a little folder with the date printed on top. Although we......

Tipped by scRambler, we checked out Shanghai Daily's slick new Live in Shanghai website ... and we have to say we are impressed. Helpful and comprehensive, the site covers most of the basics any newcomer to the city would want to know. We wish a site like this existed, oh, four years and six weeks ago. Live in Shanghai is split up into four major sections -- Fast Facts, Transport, Housing and, of course, Miscellaneous......

OK, a little cheesy and retro (late 90s) looking, but not a bad rainy day activity. Go here to create your own China map -- check off the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and disputed islands you have visited and see how red you can make China. Our map is above. We really need to get to Chongqing -- that white spot bothers us.......