We learned from the Shanghai Daily that 10 Chinese PhD students started a petition urging people to boycott Christmas: more ›

Xinhua reports that Xi'an's 2,000 year old terracotta warriors are "finally getting some female company", thanks to Norwegian artist, Marian Heyerdahl, daughter of famed explorer, Thor Heyerdahl. more ›

According to this report (in Chinese), Shanghai's first official Coca-Cola retail store opened its doors on September 9. The report states that the location is somewhere on Nanjing Xi Lu -- and it's great detailed reporting like that that we here at Shanghaiist are trying to emulate, thus we don't have an address for you either. (Hey, readers ... any help?) The store sells all kinds of Coca-Cola related products, such as clothes and weird useless plastic things that have the logo on them. The report also proudly states that since this is the only official Coke stores outside the US and Japan, that this marks the first inroads the soft drink giant has made into the Asia-Pacific region. Now Shanghaiist is no geography expert, but somehow there seems to be a contradiction contained in those last two sentences ... more ›