Chinese Valentine's falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year -- that's today! Li Anne of Next Media Animation gives us her (slightly twisted) version of the story of the cowherd and the weaver girl. more ›

Okay, it's not really Po the panda, but still: dressing up as Po to propose marriage on the Beijing-Shanghai high speed rail is awesome any way you slice it. On July 5th, a cosplay enthusiast proposed to his girlfriend of over three years, who he called 'the most important person in my life', freaking her out with his repeated pawings before going for the big reveal. Apparently it was all organized on Weibo! more ›

The Western head of this (for now unnamed) international school’s Hongqiao branch was caught cheating on his Shanghainese wife with, surprise surprise, his (also Chinese) secretary. This school head and his wife have been married for a number of years, and have young children. The wife, who is well-connected, responded to her foreign husband’s infidelity by hiring a group of thugs to put him in the hospital (a “beat him up, but don’t kill him” type of thing). So now he’s indeed in the hospital, with a swollen, unrecognizable head. more ›

In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Sufei hits the streets and asks Beijingers what they think of Shanghai girls. She then interviews Mina Hanbury-Tenison, the author of a Shanghai Girls, Uncensored & Unsentimental, a book she wrote based on conversations with a friend called Lan Lan. more ›

True love exists! It really does! Maybe not in Shanghai, but in a smaller city not far from here -- Suzhou. more ›

While the head of this People's Daily article - which states that there is now a popular saying among Japanese girls that goes "What we want is Chinese food and men, not French lovers or American houses" - was entertaining by itself, the rest of the article was such a gem that we've decided to copy paste it down below: more ›

Well gee, we guess this city is prohibitively expensive. Shanghai college students looking for romance can't catch a break - not from snooping Anti-PDA patrols and definitely not from their meager moneybags. According to Enovate, most college students get some allowance from their parents every month, but it's a pittance if you actually want to get romantic... more ›

Oh joy of joys! China's number one Ping Pong champ, Wang Hao, can finally get a girlfriend. The 25-year-old men's singles world champion got in trouble five years ago when he started going out with fellow national team player, the then 17-year-old Fan Ying. He got a finger wag and a disapproving look. She was dismissed from the team. But now that it's 2009, he's totally allowed to date former national champion Peng Luyang, his manager said. "Wang is 26 and Lu is 23 (Chinese ages). It is normal to have a love affair at this age," the manager, Huang Biao told reporters. Maybe now that he has an outlet for his hormones, we'll see less emotional outbursts like his peeing at a KTV bar/"I am the famous Wang Hao!" incident from last October. Source: Straits Times more ›

Here's a slightly more creative proposal than just that whole on-bended-knee-with-diamond-ring deal: A man in Jiangsu set up a huge billboard to propose to his girlfriend of two years, according to Netease. The proposal was a great success and the happy couple picked up their marriage certificate the next day. more ›

Didn't think the Chinese celebrated Valentine's Day? Chengdu apparently does, constructing this love-themed traffic crossing close to the city's Hejiang Pavilion, a popular dating venue for young couples. The local traffic bureau wanted to give the crossing a romantic atmosphere - and what's more romantic than gleefully stepping on hearts and the words "I love you"? Source: Ananova more ›

Some 3,000 single men and women gathered last week at the Luwan Stadium for a mass matchmaking session, and by all appearances it looked like a very successful event. The men lined up in rows while the women went past them (do we detect some sexism there?) and if anyone liked each other, they could have a quick chat and exchange numbers. Some speed dating event that will make even the Moonies with all their lavish mass weddings eat their heart out. more ›