Take a look at a series of postcards called "Manchurian Beauties" (满族美人) - they include everything from geishas and courtesans to officials' daughters and women in 'cultural dress'. See if you can tell the difference! more ›

Satisfying our craving for old China photographs, the BBC has put up some online versions of rare 19th Century prints that recently went on display in Beijing. more ›

• Shanghai Scrap shows solidarity with Fox News's Roger Friedman by buying a copy of that leaked yet-to-be-released summer blockbuster, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. [Shanghai Scrap]
• He's not the first to do so either. Lost Laowai had already scooped up a fake DVD copy just days after the leak... and then took the time to school a fenqing on the differences between piracy and those looted relic heads. [Lost Laowai]
• Not quitting the new battle for currency supremacy, China is moving to globalize the yuan and promote it overseas - and Shanghai gets to be the command central. [LA Times]
• A cluster of old buildings first constructed in the Qing Dynasty are saved from urban demolition after a national survey of cultural relics finds that many exist in there. They're located in the Chenhang area in Minhang. [Xinhua]

Everybody in China loves Jackie Chan. And now everybody in Shanghai could get the chance to go to the world's first Jackie Chan museum. The super-popular actor has allegedly donated one of his antique Chinese homes to the Shanghai government. more ›

Sina.com had a survey up about the recent Christie's auction, in which two bronze animal heads looted from the Summer Palace in the 1719th century fetched 15.7 million euros. The survey results, translated into English, were thus: more ›