The handsome former slaughterhouse building "1933" is an Art Deco landmark in Hong Kou. which we've written about twice before. Apart from the occasional exhibition, its doors remain closed to the public, so we spent Saturday taking a peek around to see how this new "creative space" is taking shape.
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1933: Where's the beef?
Teach English in North Korea!
This latest ad from the British Council (h/t to Danwei) should appeal to the scores of English teachers in Shanghai who are looking for a change in environment, and the pay looks good too! --
The British Council/Foreign and Commonwealth Office English language project in the DPRK aims to deliver quality programmes in teacher/trainer training and to develop the curriculum and related materials as well as assessment systems at leading institutions in Pyongyang. This high-profile project has been running since 2000, and we are now seeking three experienced English language teaching professionals to fill the above posts, which will be based at these institutions.
Bad boundaries: Illegal maps draw fines
Among the many things one can do to make China "lose face" in the international eye:
Who needs Guanxi? Dial 962288 to find out!
The first rule that many foreigners hear about doing anything in China is that you will need guanxi - relationships that help you clear the jungly bureaucracy, receive preferential tax treatment, or "free" land. Of course, the follow-up rule that is never stated in polite company is that guanxi means money, a greased palm, a sop, and a board seat. However, as useful as some relationships can be, they frequently outlive their usefulness and become nothing more than baggage.
Today's Links: Bubbles, substandard toys, and removing bullets
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Our new favorite blogger: ?uestlove
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.
The Metro: Bridges'n'tunnels, now hiring and overheard on the train
- A round-up of BBS posts on the Shanghai metro:
- People's Square concrete drying... and drying... Poster SanNiu British Teacakes noticed yesterday that the yellow metal floor protectors place in front of the glass safety doors on the People's Square Line 1 platform have been moved around as the floor is repaired following the safety door installation process.
- Line 7 to perform "double crossing" of Suzhou CreekThe Metro Line 7 will perform a over-and-under double crossing of the Suzhou Creek south of the Zhenping Rd station. Line 7, a north-south line stretching from the outer Putuo District down to the World Expo site in Pudong, will cross the Suzhou Creek southbound through through a tunnel and northbound over a bridge. This is an unprecedented arrangement for the Shanghai metro system. On its journey, Line 7 will also intersect with Line 2 at Jing'an Temple and with Line 1 at Changshu Rd.
- Rumors say Line 4 to be delayed to 2008Rumors say that the structural engineering of ring line 4 will be complete by mid-2007, and that the installation of equipment and testing will take another full year to complete.
This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network
It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend...
Today's Links: Labor scams, humiliation and Pudong
"5. Companies ask job applicants to submit design work prior to an interview. The works are often used commercially later even if the applicant didn't get the job."
Title says it all.
"Since March 12, Baidu's search results page has been showing pornographic photos when users input Chinese characters 'Download' or 'Load' for search."
There's a lot of them.
"A court in Shanghai has given jail sentences to leaders of a five billion yuan ($646 million) online gambling ring, the city's largest on record, state media reported on Thursday."
"A lawmaker has called for a national 'Humiliation Day' on Sept. 18 to mark the start of Japan’s 1931 invasion and remind the Chinese public of foreign attacks ... 'Remembering this humiliating part of history will help Chinese people feel urged to safeguard peace and work hard for the rejuvenation of the nation, said Jiang, president of a hospital in Qufu, Shandong province."
"Asia now accounts for 30 percent of Skype's 171 million global subscribers, up from 20 percent last year, largely due to the growth in China, said Kelly Poon, market development manager for Greater China."
"Yahoo! has avoided prosecution for grassing up a dissident journalist in China because of a lack of evidence. The Hong Kong Office of the Information Commissioner reported yesterday that its investigation of Yahoo! Hong Kong Limited could go no further."
"You are in downtown Shanghai on a rainy afternoon and it is impossible to find a taxi. Here are a few hints to get you home quicker."
"The U.S. Commerce Department is prepared to change a decades-old policy and impose countervailing duties on non-market economies like China when the facts merit, a senior official said on Thursday."
"Gong Meng, public relations manager at Alipay, has told local media that they will mainly charge fees from the external users of Taobao.com and Alibaba, but those users who have registered with both websites don't have to pay any fee."
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Today's Links: Jaywalking, smoking and cheap domains
"According to a report from Russell Reynolds Associates based on Shanghai government statistics, 144 foreign companies now have their Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, 48 of which established operations there only in the last year."
"Besides receiving a verbal reminder of the violation, jaywalkers and cyclists will be fined between five yuan to 50 yuan, depending on their behavior and attitude."
"If you thought the Shanghai index's 8.8% drop in late February was bad, wait until a bunch of rickety Chinese companies collapse."
"This Sunday, Yang checks in and checks out a number of Shanghai boutique hotels. How do we know this? We're the suckers who subscribe to Times Select."
"The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), China’s environment watchdog, will spend 2 billion yuan (US$250 million) to set up new pollution statistics, monitoring and accountability systems within 18 months."
"[T]he State Council Informatization Office, Information Office of the State Council and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Internet Network Information Center has announced that all .CN domains can now be purchased for only one yuan."
"Web search leader Google and its top rival in China Baidu.com are racing to build out their online library services as they battle for a slice of the world's second-largest Internet market."
"Smoking harms people's health, but restraining smoking threatens social stability," said Zhang Baozhen, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. "Smokers rioted when the former Soviet Union collapsed because they could not get any cigarettes. ... The principle applies in China as well."
"Led by industry group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the corporations, including EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music, and Universal Music, are suing Yahoo! China for an estimated 5.5 million yuan in damages."
"The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International said in a statement that a vaccination campaign would be a better way to control rabies."
"China ended almost 30 years of favourable treatment for foreign companies on Thursday with the introduction of a measure to equalise corporate tax rates paid by local and overseas enterprises."
"There are countless stories out there (including in this blog) of foreign companies sending money off to China for product that never comes. This article is essentially the reverse: Chinese companies shipping product overseas and then never getting paid."
"Videos already uploaded include pilgrims, rap songs, statements from monks, rants from young Tibetan exiles in the United States, and words from ama-la (grandmas). Looks like the revolution(s) will be televised after all."
"Taiwan may rejoin China peacefully within 20 years"
"An interesting survey just out from McKinsey on how executives in Asia perceive the China market. I'm amazed that only 30 per cent of the respondents' companies have operations in China."
"Imagine a world where Germany denied the Holocaust, the United States denied the slaughter of Native Americans and Europe denied organizing its immensely profitable and centuries-long trans-Atlantic trade in African slaves."
"Regulators have ordered Chinese websites to limit the use of 'virtual money' after concerns that the online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade."
"The cancer rate among Shanghai's women almost doubled in the past 20 years and is the highest in the nation, health officials said yesterday."
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Today's Links: Ear scopes, retarded men and killer lesbians
"Imagine if you can the wild and crazy times you could have with the company's line of Ear Scopes, which combine a pick with a small video camera and allow you to actually watch what's going on while you scrape around and try to avoid puncturing your eardrum."
"Christoph Johamnes arrived at Pudong International Airport early Wednesday morning for his first trip to Shanghai. ... When he arrived at his hotel, the trio charged him 1,480 yuan (US$185), claiming the fee included a 1,200-yuan taxi fare and a 280-yuan tax."
"Shanghai Best Homemaking Service Co Ltd revealed, before the holiday many clients said they would travel during the festival, so they wanted a dog-loving ayi who could take their pet for an hourlong walk every morning and evening, as well as doing house work."
"The Shanghai No 2 Intermediate Prosecutors' Office said yesterday a lesbian has been accused of killing a KTV waitress in order to please her girlfriend." Damn lesbians.
"If approved, the service will begin in March 2008."
"Street vendor has not been regarded as a legitimate profession in China for decades, and authorities of many big cities slap a ban on it for fear that hawkers roaming around downtown areas may damage the image of metropolitan."
"The announcement comes just two days before the opening of the new session of the national legislature, at which top leaders are expected to renew their determination to strike out at corruption eating away at the ruling Communist Party's legitimacy."
"This article explores China’s poverty-relief policies and highlights their complete failure in bringing about positive change."
"Could the men living in China get any more retarded? Here are the horror stories from the front lines."
"The Shanghai Medicine Adverse Reaction Monitoring Center has received 12,000 reports of adverse side effects caused by medicines. Half were caused by antibiotics misuse." The Shanghai Medicine Adverse Reaction Monitoring Center. Heh.
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Evening Links: Suicide Rabbit, Google and realtor cartels
"This window was on a nondescript building near my new office. The characters mean 'laser' and 'quit smoking,' begging the question: how exactly do you use lasers to quit smoking?"
"Among the affected areas, sections of Xizang Road S., Minli Road W. and Dalin Road in Luwan District were shut down yesterday because of Metro Line 8 construction, according to the city's Engineering Administrative Bureau. They are expected to reopen in June."
"Beijing's censorship of language is a serious obstacle to democratization, but it would be a mistake to overemphasize this point. In China, the Internet has already set into motion a core component of democratic consciousness."
"Suicide Rabbit, introduced in August by Liu Gang, a 35-year-old cartoonist, has attracted a swiftly increasing audience by portraying with gentle humor the million little abuses suffered by Chinese people as their society endures a bumpy transformation."
"Asked whether he regretted the decision, Mr Brin admitted yesterday: 'On a business level, that decision to censor... was a net negative.'"
"But Liu Chunquan, a lawyer with the Shanghai Office of Beijing Guangsheng & Partners Law Firm, told Shanghai Daily yesterday that 'a price alliance of such kind is seen as unfair competition and is defined as illegal according to China's laws.'"
"China's economy surged in 2006, moving it closer to overtaking Germany as the world's third-largest economy. Now it may have No. 2 Japan and No. 1 U.S. in its sights, if it doesn't succumb to the pitfalls of an overheated economy, like soaring inflation and rampant debt."
"The bull market is so dramatic — the Shanghai index hit a record high this week before falling back slightly — that one senior Chinese official has warned against 'blind optimism.'"
"Campaigners for freedom of speech on the internet have hailed a major breakthrough after Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to join a working group to draw up a code of conduct for protecting human rights online."
"A Chinese man has persuaded his new bride to have plastic surgery to make her look like his first wife who died in a car crash. Zhao Gang, 32, from Chongqing, wed six months ago." That's the entire story.
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Quake cable damage 'more serious than estimated'
Did you see this story from yesterday? Let the good times roll!
A Jihad in Xinjiang? Don't look for this on DVD
"Xinjiang was know as 'Western Region' in history. It has been a component part of our unified and multi-nationality country for more than 2000 years. From 60 BC, when the Han dynasty instituted the Military Viceroy's Office in the Western Region, Xinjiang was under the direct jurisdiction of the government of the Western Han Dynasty." So we learned from, Xinjiang Information, a delightful little instruction-set from Xinjiang Learning Press. Well obviously, these guys haven't read it yet, or else they would not release such wrong-headed videos as the one issued November 7 via the al-Fajr Information Center. Evidently shooting from the same studios that brought the world such terrorist hits as the as-Sahab and Labik videos from Afghanistan, this group seeks to incite Jihad in Xinjiang Province, or "Eastern Turkestan" as it is called in the video. Although the scope of SCO has expanded since it was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, combating the "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism was its original raison d'etre. It seems everyone from GM to jihad wants a piece of China.
The double-edged sword of piracy
Carrying our (fake) LV bag, slung as an afterthought over our arm sporting a (fake) diamond-encrusted Rolex, on our way to load up on the latest in (fake) DVDs at the neighbourhood store, Shanghaiist wonders why any country would not resort to the levels of rampant piracy that afford us such (fake) decadence. But intellectual property rights (IPR) have their merits, we suppose ... if they didn't, why the big push by economists and government officials to step up IPR protection in developing economies?
How you can help stop the Shanghai Animal Olympics
Late last month, we told you about the Shanghai Wild Animal Olympics, and we probably didn't infuse the post with the proper amount of outrage. Thankfully, some commenters picked up our slack and even directed readers to the animalsasia.org website, which includes information on how you can help put an end to such disgusting displays. We will now quote that information here:
Team America vs. Team China? F**k Yeah!
Imagine Team America fights with Team China -- what would that be like? This Sino-America Police Sanshou Championship (中美警察自由搏击大赛) may offer us some answers. (Sanshou is a kind of hand-to-hand combat developed by the People's Liberation Army in the 1960s. For more info, go here.) According to the website of The Ministry of Public Security of People’s Republic of China (in Chinese), this championship, organized byMinistry of Public Security and Public Security Office of Hunan Province, is divided into seven classifications, two of which are for ass-kicking females.
SH magazine blogs
Frankly we're amazed that the 8Days website still even exists so long after the magazine was sold and became SH -- especially since the new SH website actually started including magazine content. But not only is the old 8Days website live, it is updated -- and now they are adding new features. Seven members of the SH staff now have personal blogs ... as if they didn't already have enough on their respective plates, what with those darn weekly deadlines and all. The blogs appear to have launched just this week (and thus are a little light on content). Anyway, here they are:
Crazy Stone: Crazy like a fox?
With the release of its first joint-venture film in China, Warner Bros. is taking an aggressive and (we believe) unique approach in trying to minimize the effect piracy has on the release. Could it actually be working?
Let’s make friends through ... erm ... SMS
For example, you are at luna to chill, you send a short message“@luna”to belinker，belinker will tell your friends where you are，at the same time, if your friends’ friend happen to be nearby and checked in as well, you will know there location too. The casual meet up will never need to be planed again, you got another reason to meet friend in china.
Do you have what it takes to be an 'internet supervisor' in China?
OK now, if you are over 18 years old, you have high school education, you have used internet for more than three years, you know internet pretty well -- sounds like us ... we're getting excited! -- you think you can accurately express your opinions, and most importantly, you care about establishing a "civilized internet", you are qualified be an internet supervisor, at least according to Beijing Association of Online Media (BAOM) -- first time we've heard about this group -- in this Sohu report.
Yes, more about jaywalking in Shanghai
Now, you too can help fight one of our city's gravest ills: Pollution Traffic Corruption Jaywalking! Finally, put your camera phone to good use!
All you need to know about jaywalking in Shanghai
You may recall a few days ago we told you about about the female jaywalker who went all Sean Penn on the cop who was ticketing her (but not the camera crew who was filming it all). Well, the Shanghai Daily today offers us a jaywalking-in-Shanghai update. The highlights:
Shanghai Post Museum delivers the goods
Shanghaiist, admittedly, isn't much of a museum goer. While we can spend hours wandering the galleries at 50 Moganshan Lu, we have yet to set foot in that big famous museum in People's Square. We blame our short attention span on MTV. But when we do find a museum we like, we'll tell you about it. And this weekend we were thoroughly impressed by the little-known Shanghai Post Museum, which opened on January 1.
Going to church on Sundays is a drag, but this is ridiculous ...
Members of the Fangzhou Congregation, a house church in Beijing's Chaoyang district (they gather in apartments or other non-official sites to meet and worship) received some surprise visits last Sunday afternoon, January 15. At around 4:30 pm, two uniformed Beijing police officers and two plainclothes police (well, no one knows if they were really police) came in and said that they had to do some investigation of this congregation. The police accused the church of “disturbing the peace" (扰民）and illegal assembly, owing to the fact that the place where they had held the Sunday services had not been officially sanctioned. The usual type melee ensued, with accusations flying back and forth and tugs of war with video cameras. Why all the brouhaha over some small, insignificant house church? Because of the people in it, who are all notorious troublemakers. Yu Jie is an outspoken writer and intellectual that founded China's first PEN association, a pro-freedom of expression writer's group. Gao Zhisheng is a lawyer, and Wikipedia has this to say about him:
How to live like a Shanghai millionaire
They pretty much roll like your average rap star. The Hurun Report surveyed 600 of Mainland China's wealthiest, those with at least RMB 10 million in the bank or under their mattresses. The results aren't really too surprising, but Shanghai's rich search the Internet with Google, while the rest of the country prefers Baidu. And Shanghai's wealthy like to travel to Europe, while Beijing's like to jet to the United States. We have reproduced the Shanghai survey findings below. For the other lists, follow these links: Nationwide, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Northeast, Shandong, Sichuan/Chongqing. There is also a China Daily story about the list.
Awww ... isn't Panda Diplomacy cute?
The giant pandas are finally ... um, probably ... going to Taiwan after 19 years waiting. Um, probably. According to a press conference held in Beijing late in the week, China finally unveiled the panda pair from 23 nominees today as a gift offer to Taiwan.
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