... aren't here, you naughty bastards. Lately, lots of people have been stumbling on this website through Google searches of Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) while other concerned readers have been writing in to us wondering about our curious silence on Zhang Ziyi's latest paparazzi photos, the biggest celebrity scandal to hit China after Edison Chen's "sexy photo gate". Well those pictures, all 81 of them, belong to X71online.com who's been known to sue bloggers for using their pictures without permission (even the great Perez Hilton has stopped using their pics after getting sued by them for US$7.5 million). Those brave ballsy souls at ChinaSmack, though, have ripped the pictures and put all of them up on their website. We decided to put up the two animated gifs they found (created by bored Chinese netizens) that totally cracked us up after the jump [NSFW, and not safe for consumption if you've just had dinner]. more ›

Photos from Ken Yip. more ›

Plucky film star / delusional hologram Bai Ling—she of Shanghai Baby, multiple personalities, frequent public nudity, and one monstrously awkward dancefloor seizure caught on tape—announced yesterday that a tell-all memoir is in the works, and slated to publish with HarperCollins. more ›

Tradeshows are big business in China and here in Shanghai there is at least one trade show per year per industry, regardless of how obscure it maybe. However, the one tradeshow that is sure to catch people’s attention and make Bund partygoers salivate next weekend is this one. more ›

That's right, the reigning "Sexiest Man Alive" (according to one US magazine) was in Beijing over the weekend trying to persuade unnamed Chinese officials to help put a stop to the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region (China is a major trade partner of Sudan — oil — and has been opposed to forcing UN peacekeepers on the African nation). Clooney is traveling with a posse, let's call them Clooney's Four: Actor Don Cheadle, Kenyan Olympian Tegla Loroupe, American speed skater and Olympic gold medal winner Joey Cheek and David Pressman, a human rights lawyer and former aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Some called this a "secret mission," the low-profile no doubt an effort to stave off the relentless swarms of paparazzi and groupies that tend to follow human rights lawyers like Pressman around. more ›

Camera conundrums? more ›