Starting this Sunday at the Urban Footprint Pavilion, a commemorative exhibition on the 2010 Shanghai World Expo featuring the fair's most noteworthy displays, offers visitors a chance to relive their favorite expo experiences. So for all expo survivors striving to repress the memory of slogging through the Chinese Pavilion's nine hour lines on a sultry afternoon, only to finally settle for more accessible but less intriguing exhibits, this is for you! more ›

Shanghaiist reader Andy Shum sent us the following screengrabs from a 1st season episode of Criminal Minds, a CBS police procedural drama that premiered September 2005, that also happens to be one of the most popular US TV series on Tudou. "This, being episode 20," says Shum, "would have aired in May, 2006. Coincidence?" more ›

Not that you were planning on going to the China pavilion during the holidays (because who would do a silly thing like that?) but the reopened pavilion extended its opening hours to 8pm from 5pm as attendance kept pushing its 50,000 capacity on both Saturday and Sunday. At noontime on Sunday, people had to line up two hours just to buy a ticket and then wait another four to get in. Officials expect huge crowds through 'til the end of Chinese New Year and would like to remind visitors that "there will be plenty of opportunities after the holiday as the pavilion is remaining open until the end of May." more ›

After the rush crowds of opening day and the 35,000 people who lined up to visit it this weekend, the China Pavilion is rethinking its ticket policy. Now, instead of having people line up willy nilly to get in whenever the line lets them, tickets to the pavilion will have specific dates and times on them. more ›

The China Pavilion officially reopened today, and true to form, tens of thousands of people rushed ticket offices near Yaohua Road Station of Metro Line 8. Crowds began gathering at 9:30am, and overwhelmed organizers reacted by more than doubling the open ticket windows (people still waited up to four hours) and calling in local police and armed soldiers for help. Enthusiasm for tickets was "far beyond their expectations." The Expo bureau official interviewed seemed about as baffled as we are, saying there's no need for the rush considering "we have enough tickets and people can buy as many as they want." more ›

While it still doesn't seem to be up on Chinese video sites, someone uploaded all of the Expo closing ceremonies to Youtube. Above is the fanfare before the speeches start. I'm not sure how interested anyone is in actually seeing the whole thing, since it was much less of a spectacle than the opening ceremonies, but I've put all the videos (and their section names - in case a part named "Fusion of Art and Music" whets your appetite) after the jump. more ›

@Chijs: "The Shanghai Expo is over and immediately the air pollution is worse than any day during the past 6 months." more ›

The Expo is over! How strange does it feel that this event, which we've all been hearing nonstop about over the last two or three years has now finally drawn to an end. With the deconstructing of Expo grounds on the horizon, we've got so many questions: How will the Shanghai government justify its public work projects now? Does this mean the “Better City, Better Life” slogan can now be retired? What will happen to all the Haibaos still plastered around the city? more ›

Just in time for the close of the Expo, the driverless van that left Italy in July has arrived! Let’s hope it bought a ticket! more ›

Oops! If you were planning on going to Expo on the very last day and take part of the closing festivities, we hope you got your ticket already. According to Shanghai Daily, tickets marked for Sunday, the 31st, have now sold out. more ›

Well surprise, surprise. With just one week to go (and only special tickets to go with), Shanghai's World Expo celebration has reached its 70 million goal mark. According to Shanghai Daily, the total attendance as of 9pm last night was 70.45 million, with 748,300 coming in on Sunday. Visitor number 70,000,001 came in at 10:17am. The attendance was no doubt helped by Expo organizers completely disregarding the 600,000 people per day limit they'd previously set, but since nobody seems to have gotten hurt - I guess it's okay? more ›

A whopping 1.03 million people visited the Expo last Saturday, nearly doubling previous daily attendance records, shattering Osaka's World Expo reigning daily record of 836,000, and making a few of us wonder just what exactly is the Expo's capacity anyway? more ›

Here's our last installment of "How I survived Golden Week," about one of the busiest pavilions in the Expo during what was supposed to be one of the busiest weeks - National Holidays. Scott Goldman is a student ambassador from Duke university who works with the Protocol team at the USA Pavilion. Here's a peek into his day. more ›

What's it like to work the Expo at one of the busiest pavilions? We asked several USA Pavilion staff to record a diary of their day during Golden Week during what we expected to be one of the busiest weeks. (It didn't turn out quite so. The numbers for that week were actually lower than usual, probably due to the ticket price mark up for the public holiday...much to the relief of all Expo staff.) Siew Yen Chai is a student ambassador from Rutgers University who works with Facilities & Logistics. Here's a peek into her day. more ›

What's it like to work the Expo at one of the busiest pavilions? We asked several USA Pavilion staff to record a diary of their day during Golden Week during what we expected to be one of the busiest weeks. (It didn't turn out quite so. The numbers for that week were actually lower than usual, probably due to the ticket price mark up for the public holiday...much to the relief of all Expo staff.) Ben Frohman is a student ambassador from Georgetown university who works in Communications. Here's a peek into his day. more ›

What's it like to work the Expo at one of the busiest pavilions? We asked several USA Pavilion staff to record a diary of their day during Golden Week during what we expected to be one of the busiest weeks. (It didn't turn out quite so. The numbers for that week were actually lower than usual, probably due to the ticket price mark up for the public holiday...much to the relief of all Expo staff.) Melissa Monnier is a student ambassador from Hamline university who works with the Operations team. Here's a peek into her day. more ›

Ever since the Expo Village, a companion dormitory/apartments area to the World Expo site, was built and put into operation, people have been complaining that the area is "nice" but suffers from a major flaw. No matter what the hour, the place is consistently... well, empty. Curiousity piqued, I finally got a chance to visit it last week. more ›

From Arnold Schwarzenegger's Twitter feed. The Terminator was just in Shanghai over the weekend, touring the World Expo grounds and checking out our rockin' high speed railways. more ›

We previously hinted... well, no... flat out told you that the Expo gets HEATED at night, and it's not just because of the ridiculous 39C (or 45C, depending on who you ask) temperatures. While Expo visitor bar crawls must be finished at around 10pm, there's still more waiting for those who want their Expo experience to last just a little longer. more ›

Well, what do ya know! The man who decided to swim all the way from Wuhan to the Shanghai Expo (a 1200 kilometer journey) has actually made it here after 33 days... and with only minimal signs of becoming sick from the water pollution. more ›

While looking for stuff on Youku, I stumbled on this trailer for a movie called 世博总动员. It translates to Expo Story, but it seems that the English name is . It's a CG kid's cartoon that seems to be based on the Expo. The description of the movie goes thusly: more ›

It's been a week since the crazy guy who decided to swim 1200KM to the Expo started off, and look! He's still alive! Not only that, he's swimming with a massive flag attached to his back. more ›

The Shanghai Expo Timelapse Machine has struck again! We admired his amazing stop motion videos of the Danish and UK pavilions, and now he's come out with another. Can't make it to the German Pavilion? See all you would've seen there in this video. more ›

In terms of Expo stunts, this has to be one of the craziest: a man from Hubei is planning to swim 1,200km down the Yangtze River to visit the World Expo grounds in Shanghai. Yikes, has he never seen the condition of the Yangtze River here? more ›

Or as catherine mentions, it looks like the marching of the lemmings. more ›

We talked last month about how some of the behavior at pavilion green lines at the Shanghai Expo was getting so bad that many pavilions were thinking about shutting them down altogether. Expo organizers said they were mulling the problem over. Now, a month later, they've released their rules. more ›

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While the Pudong pavilions may get all the attention, there's actually quite a few cool things on the Puxi side as well - one of them being this: The State Grid Pavilion, which has a "magic box" of 20-meter high LED walls, all broadcasting a 360 degree show on six screens (four walls, plus the ceiling and floor). Here's a minute or so of that four minute show, filmed by Armin Keplinger. So... how do we get this built in our own homes? Seems like a great set up for watching Avatar. more ›

Aw nuts, looks like the initiative to let tourists stay with Shanghainese families didn't turn out as well as everyone hoped, mostly because it's too tough to get into a Shanghainese household to begin with. Though tourists have contacted tourism agencies to inquire about family stays, more ›

Last week we were alerted to the phenomena of nappers at the Expo and posted some of the ones that had been passed around the internet. Now photog and Shanghaiist reader Etienne Giust has sent us his own takes. With the higher resolution and the burned edges, it's almost like we're dreaming about Shanghai dreamers. more ›