There's an easy way to see if you missed any, read all of them, and then comment your heart out! They've all been listed on this page here. Knock yourself out and, once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR! more ›

If you want to contribute your photos to us, it's a super easy process - just tag your favorite Shanghai shots with "Shanghaiist" on Flickr or send it to us by email (photos@shanghaiist.com) and it'll show up in our Flickr pool. more ›

Shanghaiist's inhouse sex scandals specialist Kenneth Tan writes about the six sex scandals that have rocked China over the last few years and given our readers a super hardon. It should perhaps be of no surprise that some of these scandals count among this website's most trafficked stories. This post promises to end your year with a blast, so read on: more ›

As we take a look back at the last year of our reporting, Shanghaiist brings to you a list of the most important news events of 2009. Whether they be political, cultural, or social, these were the things that happened that changed our lives and perceptions of the world around us, for the better or worse. more ›

As we take a look back at the last year of our reporting, Shanghaiist brings to you a list of the most important news events of 2009. Whether they be political, cultural, or social, these were the things that happened that changed our lives and perceptions of the world around us, for the better or worse. Without further ado, here's the top five news events from around Shanghai more ›

Leslie Kuo has been working in Chinese contemporary art galleries in both New York and Shanghai and is now managing Leo Gallery in Ferguson Lane. Their current show, "Small Is Beautiful," features a collection of small sculpture works in recognition that much of Shanghai's crafted landscape is composed of small spaces. Here Leslie tells us five different ways to get an art fix in 2010. more ›

Jake Newby is Associate Editor of the new Time Out Shanghai (which features more on the acts Duck Fight Goose and Boys Climbing Ropes in their January launch issue). He also runs his own music blog at Kungfuology.com, where this article is also posted. more ›

Dan Harris is an international lawyer based in the United States and one of the partners of Harris & Moure, pllc, a boutique International Law Firm. He writes China Law Blog, which focuses on business law in China. Today he talks about the business law trends we'll be seeing in 2010. more ›

Our final photo of the year was snapped early in 2009 and features two of Shanghaiist's favorite things here: cats and fake DVDs. For those of you not going out to party, chances are you'll be cuddling with both tonight. Happy New Year! more ›

Kenneth Tan is Shanghaiist's editor-at-large and resident homo. Since handing over the reins of this website to Elaine Chow, Kenneth has been living a quiet life selling sexy male lingerie, and building a gay social network. He also serves on the committee of ShanghaiLGBT, and is one of the masterminds behind this year's much-talked-about Shanghai Pride. While 2009 was a big year for gay China, five events stood out from among the rest for the sheer amount of attention they received from international media, says Kenneth. Here they are in chronological order: more ›

Archie arrived in China in 2005 to set up a company that focused on building both the music industry from the ground up and generating compelling creative and content for brands that have a youth bias. Split Works book and produce tours all around China and Southeast Asia, and curate and produce festivals and brand campaigns — outdoor monster Yue Festival (watch out for this returning in 2010), the International Music and Arts Festival JUE | Music | Art, Bacardi Sino Sessions, Converse Love Noise, etc. He writes a blog on the Chinese Music Industry called China Music Radar and manages a Chinese language only blog on the music industry in China called Wooozy. more ›

Looking back on the year in review, we've had a lot of wonderful videos that could use a second viewing. In fact, some of our favorite content from the past year has been in video form: from the crazy ghost town of Ordos to utterly ridiculous Chinese viral videos, these videos have caught our collective fancies. Without further ado, Shanghaiist presents the best videos of 2009. more ›

Shanghaiist has had many opportunities to speak to great musicians over the past year: whether they were simply passing through town, or working hard to enrich our lives with a local music scene, these artists have enlightened us with their spirit, passion, and overall love of music. Without further ado, we present our favorite music interviews of 2009: more ›

JQ Whitcomb has been deep in Shanghai's jazz scene since arriving in 2003, performing regularly all over town as well as teaching at the JZ School and directing the music side of things at China's biggest foreign-owned radio broadcaster, Soulfire. Today, he writes about the best jazz acts that hit Shanghai this year. more ›

This week, Shanghaiist takes a look back at their favorite shots from various Shanghaiist contributors through 2009. If you want to contribute your photos to us, it's a super easy process - just tag your favorite Shanghai shots with "Shanghaiist" on Flickr or send it to us by email (photos@shanghaiist.com) and it'll show up in our Flickr pool. more ›

NeochaEDGE is a daily-curated, bilingual website and discovery engine dedicated to showcasing leading-edge creative content and emerging youth culture in China. Beyond the website, NeochaEDGE is also a full-service idea and execution house passionate about helping clients understand, engage, and co-create with Chinese creative communities, trendsetters, and youth culture opinion leaders. Today they introduce us to five animations that caught their eye in 2009. more ›

John Solomon (@johnwrede) is founder and director of enoVate a youth-focused insights and design agency based in Shanghai. enoVate works with clients and agencies to better understand and develop creative solutions targeted at the Chinese Youth market. Joey Dembs (@j_forest) is a researcher and insights guru at enoVate. more ›

After 2 weeks of the COP15 negotiations, and a year of what seemed like nonstop talk of everything "green", the below is a guide for those who are looking to be part of something real. That, big picture aside, there are ways that every day that you can be a part of supporting good things going on in the Shanghai community. Some are small, all are good for you, and perhaps a few of them will convince you that there are people who care and solutions that will work. more ›

This week and the next, Shanghaiist takes a look back at their favorite shots from various Shanghaiist contributors through 2009. If you want to contribute your photos to us, it's a super easy process - just tag your favorite Shanghai shots with "Shanghaiist" on Flickr or send it to us by email (photos@shanghaiist.com) and it'll show up in our Flickr pool more ›

We've taken a couple good looks back this week, but nothing quite illustrates how much Shanghai's changed than pictures. Shanghaiist reader Gabyu was here as a student back in 1999 and, thankfully for us, had the foresight to catalog his trip. We picked seven of our favorite photos from his much more extensive photo set - from fields of crops in Lujiazui to a relatively empty Huai Hai Lu, isn't it both weird and wonderful to see what a decade can do to China's largest city? more ›

Matt Mayer is a British web and mobile developer for ReignDesign who has lived in Shanghai for 4 years. He is the man behind ExploreShanghai, the No. 1 online Shanghai metro map which is also now available as an iPhone app. more ›

You probably have already read through Part I here, which chronicled the top five most clicked on Shanghaiist stories from January to June. Now here's Part II: the top five stories you guys read for the rest of the year. more ›

If you want to contribute your photos to us, it's a super easy process - just tag your favorite Shanghai shots with "Shanghaiist" on Flickr or send it to us by email (photos@shanghaiist.com) and it'll show up in our Flickr pool. more ›

What a difference ten years has made for China, from the new kid on the block to one of the world's most influential movers and shakers. Since 2000, China has turned the notion of "New World Order" on its head. During those 10 years we've watched China experience some breathtaking highs and painful lows. I first started watching China early in 2001, when I moved from the US to Hong Kong, and still remember exactly where I was and how I felt when I heard the big news that made it to No.1 on my Personal Five Most Significant China Stories of the decade. more ›

Malcolm Moore is the Shanghai correspondent for the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph newspaper. He has been in the city for around 18 months and now writes a new online diary of his (and the rest of the Telegraph staff's) reporting adventures here. Today he writes about the top seven pieces of juicy gossip he has yet to be able to use... until now. more ›

Maggie Rauch is editor of China Sports Today, a blog about China's emerging sports scene, and an occasional contributor to Shanghaiist. Today she talks about the top ten sports stories to hit China in 2009—wins, losses and scandals aplenty. more ›

Adam Minter is an American writer in Shanghai, China, where he covers a range of topics, including the Chinese environment, religion in contemporary China, trade, sports, and cross-cultural issues between the West and Asia. Minter’s work has been published in The Atlantic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Scientific American, ARTnews, and other publications. He blogs at Shanghai Scrap. Today, he shares five Expo-related reasons he's looking forward to 2010 (in no particular order/ardor). more ›

This week and the next, Shanghaiist takes a look back at their favorite shots from various Shanghaiist contributors through 2009. If you want to contribute your photos to us, it's a super easy process - just tag your favorite Shanghai shots with "Shanghaiist" on Flickr or send it to us by email (photos@shanghaiist.com) and it'll show up in our Flickr pool. more ›

In a city like Shanghai, new openings are aplenty and sudden closings even more so. It seems that the evanescent nature of the city's restaurants and bars make it so that when something stays open for over two years, it ought to be counted as an old stand by. We are, of course, talking about expat establishments - there are tons of old Chinese restaurants that have stood the test of time, probably because the Shanghainese Shanghai population is a little less transient. And yet, somehow some of these places have managed to survive the volatility of the city. They may have changed their appearance, they may have moved, but all and all they're still here, giving anybody who hasn't been here since 2000 something at least somewhat familiar to cling to. We tip our hat off to them - for better or worse, they haven't quit for at least ten years. Listed in no particular order or importance, ten places that have been here since at least 1999. more ›

Shanghai has an ephemeral nature: with the breakneck pace of modernization, it seems like the city is a little bit different every day, changing right under our noses. With all that constant progress comes an ever changing cast of cultural venues: every year, we find our favorite places to rest and relax going the way of the collective farm, only to be replaced with entirely new and fascinating ones that catch our attention. We spend a lot of our time exploring the great things our city has to offer, especially the ones that serve us alcohol: to top off our year of intrepid boozing, here's a list of our favorite new bars, clubs and lounges that have popped up over the past year. more ›