What have we, what have we, what have we done to deserve this? more ›

China's biggest football bad boys, Xian, come to town tonight to take on Shanghai Shenhua in a CSL clash with more complex plot twists than a tornado ripping across your granddad's allotment. more ›

Derby fever strikes the city once again tonight when Shanghai Shenhua cross the Huangpu to take on Pudong’s Shanghai United in the CSL, with both teams looking to get one over their local rivals to make up for disappointing seasons so far. more ›

The World Cup is still a little more than a week away, so that means you still have some time to enter Shanghaiist's World Cup Challenge. Signing up is free and easy. All you have to do is go to this page and follow the instructions. Once you have chosen your own username and password, you can join our group -- it's called "Shanghaiist" and the password is "shanghai" (we like to keep things simple). The way you play is also simple: You pick what team you think will win each match, and the person who gets the most correct is the big winner. more ›

GigShanghai: The scoop on the city's live music scene more ›

Carsten Jancker is expected to make his CSL debut for Shanghai Shenhua tonight against Dongbei side Liaoning FC. more ›

We have set up a group over at the Germany Cup Pick 'Em on ESPN Soccernet. And we're inviting all Shanghaiist readers and friends of Shanghaiist readers (and anyone else) to join in the fun. It's totally free. Test your soccer football knowledge with people from all over the world. To make it ever so slightly more interesting, we'll give the winner a Shanghaiist T-shirt. (Exciting, we know.) more ›

We found this interesting (kind of) report on people.com.cn (in Chinese) titled “What Are Foreigners Doing on Internet”. This report, written by three Chinese journalists, Zhong Xiang in America,Tang Huiying in France and Lin Xueyuan in Japan, says chatting online is the favourite online activity of the Chinese, Americans usually use internet to search for maps while French people usually write blogs. That sounds exactly right, because Shanghaiist, who is Chinese, is currently chatting with an American friend who just happened to find a really cool map of France, which happens to be the home of her boyfriend, who is live-blogging the whole thing. Exciting! more ›

Chinese director Lou Ye (娄烨）has run afoul of the censors at the Film Bureau for submitting his film Summer Palace (颐和园）to the Cannes Film Festival without the government's approval. Those of you familiar with the rules of the game know that this not only gets you on the blacklist, it prevents your film from getting shown in the theaters in China. However, the more we read about this situation the more confused we get. more ›

We first learned of 厉家菜/Lijiacai back in March, when the restaurant’s impending Shanghai branch was the subject of a story in Shanghai Daily. One line in particular caught our attention: more ›

The Christian Science Monitor reports on the growing phenomenon of "team shopping" in China: more ›

Shanghaiist, admittedly, doesn't venture into online forums too often. But we do realize they can be a valuable resource ... if used properly. Shanghaiist readers possess a wealth of knowledge and insights about this wonderful city we call home, and you deserve a platform on which you can impart that wisdom to the rest of the world. So, today we are proud to present to you the Shanghaiist Forum, where your voice can be heard. The Forum offers a different outlet than just commenting on posts -- in the Forum, you dictate the topics and where the conversations lead. It should be a nice complement to the rest of site. more ›