If you haven't been to Barbarossa, the Moroccan haven inside People's park yet, here's a good opportunity to check it out. They're throwing a summer kick off party on Friday, May 6th. Their famously gorgeous kasbah terrace will be open and they're sweetening the deal by adding free flow for half an hour from 9:30-10:30pm. Free // 9pm // Barbarossa // Inside People's Park, 231 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Huangpi Nan Lu ( 南京西路231号, 人民公园内 近黄陂南路) more ›

In one of the more bizarre police conflict stories of late, over a hundred gay men congregated at People's Park in Guangzhou this week to protest police efforts to keep homosexuals out of the park. The police have used reports of petty crimes such as robbery and stealing to keep homosexuals out of the park, which serves as a meeting place for gay people. Protesters verbally clashed with the police after park guards attempted to force the group to leave the premises, and several protesters and volunteers were detained and questioned before the protest began. more ›

Way back in 1925, during the heyday of foreign imperialism in Shanghai, discontent was fomenting among the local populace over what were generally considered to be unfair privileges granted to foreigners and Chinese exclusion from the governing Shanghai Municipal Council. The deals the foreign powers had struck up with Manchu officials in the 19th century, suspect from the beginning, had little official legitimacy after the fall of the Qing more than ten years earlier. Tensions reached a boiling point when labor protests at a Japanese factory resulted in an assault and the death of a Chinese employee on May 15th. more ›